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Description: | Malone (the collection of the Shakespearian scholar, Edmond Malone, 1741-1812) came to the Bodleian Library in 1821. There are 770 volumes, containing c.3,000 items, chiefly Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline literature, particularly drama, some Restoration drama and poetry.
Malone adds. (additions). Subsequent (mainly copyright) acquisitions of theatrical material in English (plays, criticism, playbills, etc.) were given an M. adds. shelfmark until 1989. The sequence of playbills and programmes (19th century) includes: Covent Garden, Drury Lane, English Opera House, Haymarket, King's Theatre and provincial theatres, notably: Kilkenny Theatre, Liverpool (various theatres), Manchester (various theatres), Oxford (Empire Theatre).
Gough Adds. A topographic sequence, additional to the original collection bequeathed by Richard Gough (1735-1809). Among the guardbooks assembled by county are runs of local playbills, programmes, etc., notably (for Oxford) G.A. Oxon b.69 and b.93.
Harding. The collection of Walter Newton Henry Harding (1883-1973) came to the Bodleian Library from Chicago (where he had lived since a boy) in 1975. Song books were the central theme of his collecting, including music and ballad operas. There are also over 3,000 volumes of English plays (17th-19th centuries), containing some 4,300 plays, many but not all including songs.
Johnson (books). The collection of 10,000 books assembled by John de Monins Johnson. It contains plays.; Bloomfield, B.C. (ed). A Directory of Rare Books and Special Collections... 2nd ed. London, Library Association, 1997 (pp.493-516)
Special Collections and Western Manuscripts:
Rare Books and Printed Ephemera, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, | Format: | Playbills Theses Ephemera e.g. daybills & fliers Periodicals Books Posters Playtexts (printed) Programmes | Temporal: | 1560 2000 | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Broad Street, Oxford,,
OX1 3BG | Creator: | Bodleian Library | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Format: | Playbills Theses Ephemera e.g. daybills & fliers Periodicals Books Posters Playtexts (printed) Programmes | Go to resource |
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