Excerpt from The Bodleian Library at Oxford Reserving books. Mss. And rare books should be used in the 0.r.r. And cannot be reserved, but should be given up each time that the reader leaves. Ah ordinary book or an orderly pile of books, if reserved by a slip of paper bearing name and date, is left, in o.r.r. 3 days at seat, 7 days more in an adjacent reserve (but at Selden End, 10 days at seat) in u.r.r. 3 days at seat, 7 in reserve in the Cam. R.r. Books to be reserved should be brought to the Assistant's table (each work With the reserving slip), and will there be reserved for 7 days. Unreserved books and all Reference and Select books are cleared away daily. A reasonable limit for reserved books is in general twenty volumes. Tracing and painting need special permission. Photography is undertaken by the Clarendon Press order forms are supplied on application. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford: With a Notice of the Earlier Library of the University When this book was first published twenty-two years ago, it was found to appeal to the interest of so limited a class of readers, although one which in the course of years has gradually made it to become somewhat scarce, that the idea of publishing a second edition was never entertained by me. The accumulation of additional notes, indeed, continually went on, but it was with the idea of giving an enlarged copy some day to the Library in the belief that after my death it would be found useful. But it is owing to the present Librarian that this second edition now appears under my own eye and care. For the book had become a manual of such continual use in the Library'that the Librarian was desirous that the additional matter should be rendered avail able while a last inheritor of some traditional information and a last associate in some details and labours under the man agement that existed fifty years agostill survives on the staff. And it is with much pleasure that I acknowledge the interest he has shown throughout, and the useful suggestions he has from time to time made. To Mr. Falconer Madan also, whose interest in the progress of the work has been equally sustained, I am indebted for frequent and cordial assistance. And to the Delegates of the University Press I desire to tender my thanks for liberally undertaking the publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Ancient Mysteries From the Digby Manuscripts: Preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford Resolved, That the volume of Ancient Mysteries and Moralities, transcribed from the Digby MSS. in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and edited by Mr Sharpe of Coventry, be immediately put to press for the use of the Members of the Club, and that the superintendence of the printing be committed to the Secretary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Lay of Havelok the Dane: Re-Edited From Ms. Laud Misc, 108 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford 2. Of this first edition in 1828 but few copies were printed; and, as the work was seldom to be met with, a new edition was printed by myself for the Early English Text Society in 1868, with the permission and kind assistance of the first editor. A later edition was issued from the stereo typed plates, with a few corrections and additions, in 1889. An edition by F. Holthausen, with a carefully revised text, was published in London, New York, and Heidelberg in 1901, which I have consulted with much advantage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A. D. 1598-A. D. 1867: With a Preliminary Notice of the Earlier Library Founded in the Fourteenth Century 'bowers of Paradise. Thus it was that an enthusiastic Hebrew student, writing of the Bodleian but a few years ago, apostrophized the little cells and curtained cages wherein readers sit, while hedged in and canopied with all the wisdom and learning of bygone generations, which here bloom their blossoms and yield up their fruits. And, as if answering in actual living type to the parable which the Eastern metaphor suggests, these cells from year to year have been and (though of late more infrequently) still are, the resort of grand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The True Tragedy: The First Quarto; 1595, From the Unique Copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford Shakspere, working together with Marlowe, was due the revision of the old_ plays and their transformation into Henry VI, Parts 2 and 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Historic Bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: With Reproduction of Twenty-Four of the Finest Bindings Owing to the limitations attached to the photographic art, it was found to be impossible to procure satisfactory plates of several important bindings, but descriptions of these will be found either in the text or in the Introduction, which also contains some account of early stamped leather bookbindings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.