Herbert John Davis (1893-1967) was Reader in Textual Criticism at Oxford University. Details are given in Who Was Who.

Correspondence and papers of Herbert Davis, including correspondence relating to his edition of the works of Jonathan Swift and to the Oxford University Press series of 'Oxford English Novels'.

The papers were bequaethed to the Library by Herbert Davis in 1967.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 41471-81.

Photocopies collected by Davis of manuscripts and printed texts of Swift.

English literature

Davis | Herbert John | 1893-1967 | English Scholar

Swift | Jonathan | 1667-1745 | Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, and Satirist