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*Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), Fellow of All Souls (1697), Canon of Christ Church (1724), Bishop of St Asaph (1732-5), antiquary and ecclesiastical historian, bequeathed to the Bodleian his mss and such printed books, not already in the library, as the library should think fit to accept. The printed books, c960 vols. containing c.1,800 items, date from 15^th-18^th cent, but are mainly 16^th and 17^th cent. They include many early and important books, particularly examples of English 15^th and 16^th c. printing, such as works printed by Caxton, and theological works by the Reformers and their opponents, many being scarce tracts in the vernacular, and also Civil War and Interregnum pamphlets. Tanner’s books suffered damage from water when being moved from Norwich to Oxford in 1731. Most were uniformly bound (c.1820), but none of the fly-leaves (which he may well have annotated) have survived. Macray, p.209-12. Philip, p.80-3. M. J. Sommerlad, The historical and antiquarian interests of Thomas Tanner, 1674-1735, Unpubl. Oxford University thesis, 1962 (MS.D.Phil.d.2692). Back to Index Tauchnitz* The collection of British authors, subsequently of British and American authors (though from the first American authors were included) was launched by Bernhard Tauchnitz jun. in Leipzig in 1841. Its aim was the publication, by special arrangement with the author or his representative, of favourite works by well-known authors, mainly for continental circulation, and as far as possible simultaneously with their appearance in England or America. The Tauchnitz text sometimes represented an earlier stage of the author’s text than in the English edition. The greater part of the series was devoted to fiction, but it also contained a large number of works of history, biography, science, philosophy etc. By the end of the Second World War the series comprised almost 5,500 v, issued in over 4,000,000 copies. In 1980 the Bodleian’s holdings of the series were gathered together as a collection, arranged by Tauchnitz no, and at the end of 1982 totalled c1,300 v. It is the library’s intention to add to them. The library holds a series of catalogues of the Tauchnitz edition, published by the firm over the period 1907-37. ‘The Tauchnitz edition’, BLR 10(1981), p210-11. W. B. Todd and A. Bowden, Tauchnitz international editions in English, 1844-1955: a bibliographical history. Bibliographical Society of America, New York, 1988. *Th. [Theologia]* One part of the original Bodleian four-part classification by faculty or subject, in use in various forms over the period 1602-1789, and less frequently until about 1840. In the later years the distinction by faculty began to be disregarded and books were added where there was space on the shelves. The collection comprises c11,000 v of 16^th-19^th cent. *Theol. [Theology]* c30 folios and large quartos on theological subjects received among the new books between 1861 and 1883. *[THETA] Shelfmark used between 1840 and 1861 for multi-volume sets in quarto and octavo, between 1845 and 1861 for older books in folio, and between 1923 and 1936 for retrospective purchases of 18^th and 19^th cent English books. Over 5,500 v. George Thorn-Drury, literary scholar, editor of the poets Randolph and Waller, and a specialist in the minor poets of the Restoration period. A collection of c70 v of late 17^th cent English poetical texts and also works of reference, all heavily annotated by him, many grangerized and indexed, preserving intact the unpublished portion of Thorn-Drury’s life’s work, providing a mine of bibliographical information on the poetical writers of the Restoration and on those of an earlier and of a slightly later age. Purchased by the Friends of the Bodleian in 1931, with additions acquired later. Craster, p277. See also Walter Newton Henry Harding. Todhunter-Allen* This collection of British atlases and maps, numbering 700 items, 17^th to 19^th century, was formerly in the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. (The Bodleian holds the world’s seventh largest collection of maps, including over 1 million street maps and 20,000 atlases, early examples of cartography, portolan charts, estate maps and atlases). *Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855-1932), Dante scholar, made donations to the Bodleian in 1912,1913,1916,1917 and 1923. The 1912 donation, c360 works, includes numerous editions of the works of Boccaccio, mainly printed at Florence or Venice in 16^th cent, and of Petrarch; works printed at Strawberry Hill; works from the library of Horace Walpole, 4^th Earl of Orford, and works on Walpole and the Strawberry Hill Press. The 1913 donation consists of c375 v, largely Italian translations of the classics, 16^th-19^th cent, with many Aldine, Elzevier and Giunta editions. The 1916 donation consists of c350 v, mainly editions of Dante, 16^th-19^th cent. The 1917 donation is of 700 v of Dante editions, translations and commentaries, many of 19^th and 20^th cent. The 1923 donation is of c600 v of general Italian literature of 16^th-20^th cent. He bequeathed the remaining part of his library, expressing the wish that all his books relating to Dante should be included in the selection made from it: c1,300 v were selected. ‘Chief accessions of printed books’, BQR 2 (1918), p204. ‘The Toynbee collection’ , Ibid, 4 (1923), p74-5. Craster, p282. Tractatus Lutherani* A collection of 538 v. Those numbered 1-126 consist of two series, each arranged chronologically: 84 v containing c1,670 Latin and German tracts by the German Reformers, 1518-50, including 640 by Luther, and a further collection of tracts, ranging in date from 1498-1629. To these two series have been added (vols numbered 127-538) works, mainly of 16^th cent, but also some of 17^th-19^th cent, including editions of Luther’s works. Some account of Dr May’s of Augsburg collection of tracts on the Reformation. [With catalogue. Ms. Bodleian shelfmark R.6.212]. M A Pegg, A catalogue of German Reformation pamphlets, 1516-1546, in the libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. (Bibliotheca bibliographica Aureliana, 45.) [With locations in the Bodleian.] Baden Baden, 1973. *Trades* A collection of 40 folios and large quartos on commercial and practical subjects received among the new books between 1861 and 1883. Back to Index *University College* A collection of over 100 early printed and scarce works of 15^th-17^th cent presented to the Bodleian between 1923 and 1935 by the Master and Fellows of University College, shelfmarked Univ. Coll.; c.200 volumes on various subjects, discarded by University College, are awaiting incorporation with the above (these comprise items apparently not in the Bodleian, and authors’ presentation copies to the College and association copies); a collection of over 1,000 mainly English 17^th cent theological works, deposited in the Bodleian by University College, and shelfmarked Univ. II. *Vet.[Vetera]* Shelfmark used since 1937 for antiquarian accessions. Subdivided by country of printing (Great Britain and Ireland; Netherlands and Belgium; Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland; Germany, Austria and Switzerland; France; Italy; Spain and Portugal; Russia, Poland and Hungary; Rest of Europe; North America; Rest of the world) and by period of printing (the period subdivisions being 1501-1600; 1601-40; 1641-1700; 1701-50; 1751-1800; 1801-50; 1851-1900). The collection is estimated to include over 35,000 editions. *Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941), novelist, formed, and bequeathed to the Bodleian, a collection of printed books and mss containing over 1,300 v, mainly first editions, of the works of English writers of fiction, poetry and belles lettres published in the 1890s, and including a few books published a little before and after the 1890s in order to give a complete survey of the works of authors whose most characteristic work fell within that period. While most of the books concern the coteries of second rank writers, notably that which came to centre on the Yellow Book, there are fine copies of first editions of the more important writers such as Hardy and Kipling. The collection includes copies autographed by their authors, or having some association with the leading literary figures of the time. Many have notes by Walpole. The mss include autograph letters, the bulk of the ms material concerning three authors, William Watson, Stephen Phillips and Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo. ‘Sir Hugh Walpole’s "Nineties" collection’, BLR 2,3(1942), p40-1. Craster, p279. Anthony Wood (1632-95), antiquary and historian. In 1695 Wood’s mss, and such of his printed books and pamphlets as were not already in that institution were deposited in the library of the Ashmolean Museum, and were transferred to the Bodleian in 1860. There are c960 printed volumes, representing a far greater number of printed pieces [c. 6,000?], mainly of 17^th cent, strong in books printed at Oxford, or written by Oxford men, and in ephemeral and vernacular items not collected by the Bodleian in the 17^th cent. Included are: a series of almanacs dated 1629-95, the interleaved volumes 1657-95 with Wood’s diaries written in them; newspapers (incl. many Civil War Mercuries and a complete run of the Oxford Gazette), and literary periodicals; pamphlets, mainly concerned with contemporary English and Irish history, also many Oxford pamphlets (1572-1691), often arranged by subject and in chronological order; chapbooks, ballads and poems; book catalogues and book prospectuses; 5 vols. of over 500 broadsheets. Wood’s printed books have been defined as a printed archive rather than a library. His predominant concern was the publication of a history of Oxford, and he confined himself to the acquisition of materials of immediate and background relevance - e.g. ephemera not in the Bodleian. Index to Wood’s almanacs and diaries (alphabetical by author/title): (Bodleian shelfmark R.6.224). Andrew Clark, ‘The Wood collection of manuscripts and printed books’, The life and times of Anthony Wood, described by himself, collected from his diaries [&c], Oxford Hist Soc, v 19, i (1891), p6-21 Craster, p68-9, 77. Stanley Gillam, ‘Anthony Wood’s trustees and their friends’, BLR, XV,3(October 1995) p.187-210. Rogers, p.158-60. R T Gunther, ‘The Ashmole printed books’, BQR 6 (1930), p193-5. Nicolas K Kiessling, ‘The location of two lost volumes of ballads, Wood 399 and Wood 400’, BLR, XV,4(April 1996) p 260 - 291. The broadside ballads from Wood's collection are catalogued and displayed by the Bodleian Ballads Project, http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ Back to Index [Yearbooks]* A collection of octavo volumes added in the years 1824-50, the shelfmark being the last two numerals of the year separated by a stop from a running number, the books in each year having been arranged in alphabetical order of author or title. Over 32,000 v 1824-49, the 2,000 v in 1850 having been moved to the current classification. Books on all subjects, including fiction. No serials. *Unnamed Collection* A one and two-figure classification scheme, running from 1 through 20, 30 etc to 90, was in use 1861-83 to classify older books purchased in octavo and small quarto into 10 subdivisions, including theology (over 1,300 v), medicine (58 v), arts and trades (39 v), law (260 v), now housed at Law Library, mathematics and physics (55 v), history (over 700 v), literature (270 v), poetry (190 v), and philology (180 v). Books of 16^th-19^th cent.

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Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), Fellow of All Souls (1697), Canon of Christ Church (1724), Bishop of St Asaph (1732-5), antiquary and ecclesiastical historian, bequeathed to the Bodleian his mss and such printed books, not already in the library, as the library should think fit to accept. The printed books, c960 vols. containing c.1,800 items, date from 15^th-18^th cent, but are mainly 16^th and 17^th cent. They include many early and important books, particularly examples of English 15^th and 16^th c. printing, such as works printed by Caxton, and theological works by the Reformers and their opponents, many being scarce tracts in the vernacular, and also Civil War and Interregnum pamphlets.

Tanner’s books suffered damage from water when being moved from Norwich to Oxford in 1731. Most were uniformly bound (c.1820), but none of the fly-leaves (which he may well have annotated) have survived.

Macray, p.209-12.
Philip, p.80-3.
M. J. Sommerlad, The historical and antiquarian interests of Thomas Tanner, 1674-1735, Unpubl. Oxford University thesis, 1962 (MS.D.Phil.d.2692).

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Tauchnitz The collection of British authors, subsequently of British and American authors (though from the first American authors were included) was launched by Bernhard Tauchnitz jun. in Leipzig in 1841. Its aim was the publication, by special arrangement with the author or his representative, of favourite works by well-known authors, mainly for continental circulation, and as far as possible simultaneously with their appearance in England or America. The Tauchnitz text sometimes represented an earlier stage of the author’s text than in the English edition. The greater part of the series was devoted to fiction, but it also contained a large number of works of history, biography, science, philosophy etc. By the end of the Second World War the series comprised almost 5,500 v, issued in over 4,000,000 copies. In 1980 the Bodleian’s holdings of the series were gathered together as a collection, arranged by Tauchnitz no, and at the end of 1982 totalled c1,300 v. It is the library’s intention to add to them.

The library holds a series of catalogues of the Tauchnitz edition, published by the firm over the period 1907-37.

‘The Tauchnitz edition’, BLR 10(1981), p210-11.
W. B. Todd and A. Bowden, Tauchnitz international editions in English, 1844-1955: a bibliographical history. Bibliographical Society of America, New York, 1988.

Th. [Theologia] One part of the original Bodleian four-part classification by faculty or subject, in use in various forms over the period 1602-1789, and less frequently until about 1840. In the later years the distinction by faculty began to be disregarded and books were added where there was space on the shelves. The collection comprises c11,000 v of 16^th-19^th cent.

Theol. [Theology] c30 folios and large quartos on theological subjects received among the new books between 1861 and 1883.

[THETA] Shelfmark used between 1840 and 1861 for multi-volume sets in quarto and octavo, between 1845 and 1861 for older books in folio, and between 1923 and 1936 for retrospective purchases of 18^th and 19^th cent English books. Over 5,500 v.

George Thorn-Drury, literary scholar, editor of the poets Randolph and Waller, and a specialist in the minor poets of the Restoration period. A collection of c70 v of late 17^th cent English poetical texts and also works of reference, all heavily annotated by him, many grangerized and indexed, preserving intact the unpublished portion of Thorn-Drury’s life’s work, providing a mine of bibliographical information on the poetical writers of the Restoration and on those of an earlier and of a slightly later age. Purchased by the Friends of the Bodleian in 1931, with additions acquired later.

Craster, p277.

See also Walter Newton Henry Harding.

Todhunter-Allen This collection of British atlases and maps, numbering 700 items, 17^th to 19^th century, was formerly in the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. (The Bodleian holds the world’s seventh largest collection of maps, including over 1 million street maps and 20,000 atlases, early examples of cartography, portolan charts, estate maps and atlases).

Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855-1932), Dante scholar, made donations to the Bodleian in 1912,1913,1916,1917 and 1923. The 1912 donation, c360 works, includes numerous editions of the works of Boccaccio, mainly printed at Florence or Venice in 16^th cent, and of Petrarch; works printed at Strawberry Hill; works from the library of Horace Walpole, 4^th Earl of Orford, and works on Walpole and the Strawberry Hill Press. The 1913 donation consists of c375 v, largely Italian translations of the classics, 16^th-19^th cent, with many Aldine, Elzevier and Giunta editions. The 1916 donation consists of c350 v, mainly editions of Dante, 16^th-19^th cent. The 1917 donation is of 700 v of Dante editions, translations and commentaries, many of 19^th and 20^th cent. The 1923 donation is of c600 v of general Italian literature of 16^th-20^th cent. He bequeathed the remaining part of his library, expressing the wish that all his books relating to Dante should be included in the selection made from it: c1,300 v were selected.

‘Chief accessions of printed books’, BQR 2 (1918), p204.
‘The Toynbee collection’ , Ibid, 4 (1923), p74-5.
Craster, p282.

Tractatus Lutherani A collection of 538 v. Those numbered 1-126 consist of two series, each arranged chronologically: 84 v containing c1,670 Latin and German tracts by the German Reformers, 1518-50, including 640 by Luther, and a further collection of tracts, ranging in date from 1498-1629. To these two series have been added (vols numbered 127-538) works, mainly of 16^th cent, but also some of 17^th-19^th cent, including editions of Luther’s works.

Some account of Dr May’s of Augsburg collection of tracts on the Reformation. [With catalogue. Ms. Bodleian shelfmark R.6.212].
M A Pegg, A catalogue of German Reformation pamphlets, 1516-1546, in the libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. (Bibliotheca bibliographica Aureliana, 45.) [With locations in the Bodleian.] Baden Baden, 1973.

Trades A collection of 40 folios and large quartos on commercial and practical subjects received among the new books between 1861 and 1883.

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University College A collection of over 100 early printed and scarce works of 15^th-17^th cent presented to the Bodleian between 1923 and 1935 by the Master and Fellows of University College, shelfmarked Univ. Coll.; c.200 volumes on various subjects, discarded by University College, are awaiting incorporation with the above (these comprise items apparently not in the Bodleian, and authors’ presentation copies to the College and association copies); a collection of over 1,000 mainly English 17^th cent theological works, deposited in the Bodleian by University College, and shelfmarked Univ. II.

Vet.[Vetera] Shelfmark used since 1937 for antiquarian accessions. Subdivided by country of printing (Great Britain and Ireland; Netherlands and Belgium; Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland; Germany, Austria and Switzerland; France; Italy; Spain and Portugal; Russia, Poland and Hungary; Rest of Europe; North America; Rest of the world) and by period of printing (the period subdivisions being 1501-1600; 1601-40; 1641-1700; 1701-50; 1751-1800; 1801-50; 1851-1900). The collection is estimated to include over 35,000 editions.

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941), novelist, formed, and bequeathed to the Bodleian, a collection of printed books and mss containing over 1,300 v, mainly first editions, of the works of English writers of fiction, poetry and belles lettres published in the 1890s, and including a few books published a little before and after the 1890s in order to give a complete survey of the works of authors whose most characteristic work fell within that period. While most of the books concern the coteries of second rank writers, notably that which came to centre on the Yellow Book, there are fine copies of first editions of the more important writers such as Hardy and Kipling. The collection includes copies autographed by their authors, or having some association with the leading literary figures of the time. Many have notes by Walpole. The mss include autograph letters, the bulk of the ms material concerning three authors, William Watson, Stephen Phillips and Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo.

‘Sir Hugh Walpole’s "Nineties" collection’, BLR 2,3(1942), p40-1.
Craster, p279.

Anthony Wood (1632-95), antiquary and historian. In 1695 Wood’s mss, and such of his printed books and pamphlets as were not already in that institution were deposited in the library of the Ashmolean Museum, and were transferred to the Bodleian in 1860. There are c960 printed volumes, representing a far greater number of printed pieces [c. 6,000?], mainly of 17^th cent, strong in books printed at Oxford, or written by Oxford men, and in ephemeral and vernacular items not collected by the Bodleian in the 17^th cent. Included are: a series of almanacs dated 1629-95, the interleaved volumes 1657-95 with Wood’s diaries written in them; newspapers (incl. many Civil War Mercuries and a complete run of the Oxford Gazette), and literary periodicals; pamphlets, mainly concerned with contemporary English and Irish history, also many Oxford pamphlets (1572-1691), often arranged by subject and in chronological order; chapbooks, ballads and poems; book catalogues and book prospectuses; 5 vols. of over 500 broadsheets. Wood’s printed books have been defined as a printed archive rather than a library. His predominant concern was the publication of a history of Oxford, and he confined himself to the acquisition of materials of immediate and background relevance - e.g. ephemera not in the Bodleian.

Index to Wood’s almanacs and diaries (alphabetical by author/title): (Bodleian shelfmark R.6.224).
Andrew Clark, ‘The Wood collection of manuscripts and printed books’, The life and times of Anthony Wood, described by himself, collected from his diaries [&c], Oxford Hist Soc, v 19, i (1891), p6-21
Craster, p68-9, 77.
Stanley Gillam, ‘Anthony Wood’s trustees and their friends’, BLR, XV,3(October 1995) p.187-210.
Rogers, p.158-60.
R T Gunther, ‘The Ashmole printed books’, BQR 6 (1930), p193-5.
Nicolas K Kiessling, ‘The location of two lost volumes of ballads, Wood 399 and Wood 400’, BLR, XV,4(April 1996) p 260 - 291.
The broadside ballads from Wood's collection are catalogued and displayed by the Bodleian Ballads Project, http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/

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[Yearbooks] A collection of octavo volumes added in the years 1824-50, the shelfmark being the last two numerals of the year separated by a stop from a running number, the books in each year having been arranged in alphabetical order of author or title. Over 32,000 v 1824-49, the 2,000 v in 1850 having been moved to the current classification. Books on all subjects, including fiction. No serials.

Unnamed Collection A one and two-figure classification scheme, running from 1 through 20, 30 etc to 90, was in use 1861-83 to classify older books purchased in octavo and small quarto into 10 subdivisions, including theology (over 1,300 v), medicine (58 v), arts and trades (39 v), law (260 v), now housed at Law Library, mathematics and physics (55 v), history (over 700 v), literature (270 v), poetry (190 v), and philology (180 v). Books of 16^th-19^th cent.