History of the Bodleian Library, 1845-1945

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Label

History of the Bodleian Library, 1845-1945

Statement of responsibility

by Sir Edmund Craster

Creator

• Craster, H. H. E., (Herbert Henry Edmund), 1879-1959

Subject

• Bodleian Library

Language

eng

Summary

In this book the author describes how the Library has developed during the hundred years that ended with the close of the Second World War. Unlike Macray's Annals of the Bodleian, of which it is in some sort a continuation, it does not adopt a strictly chronological arrangement, but, after giving a sketch of the Library as it was in 1845, tells its history under successive librarians; first under Bandinel and Coxe; then under Nicholson; and finally under Nicholson's three successors in office. In each of these three sections there are separate chapters on administration, on accessions of printed books, on manuscripts, on Orientalia, and on building extension. Librarians and scholars will each find in them subjects that fall within their special fields, but it is hoped that the book as a whole will appeal to the wider circle of all who are interested in the history of Oxford and one of her greatest institutions. - Jacket flap

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

027.742

Index

no index present

LC call number

Z792.O94

LC item number

C82

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography