Monday Exclusive Tour of the Bodleian Library, 6 April 2020 Oxford 2.15pm - 5pm Get behind the scenes access to one of the • 15.30-16.15 - Tea & welcome with Tickets £40 oldest working libraries in the world. See Bodley’s Librarian, Richard Ovenden Maximum numbers: 30 the awe-inspiring architecture and hear OBE, in the Blackwell Hall (Weston the stories from the historic heart of the Library) University. • 16.15-17.00 A show & tell in the Bahari To book a ticket The Bodleian Library is offering Stationers Room with documents from Early Please contact Dave Rosewell [email protected] and guests a bespoke tour that celebrates Modern Manuscripts which will include Tel. 07778 651100 the relationship between The Bodleian relevant Stationers’ material, as well To pay for your place Library and the Stationers’ Company, when, as materials from the wonderful John Bank Transfer in to the LivCom in 1610 Thomas Bodley entered into an Johnson Archive of printed ephemera. account: Sort code 60-05-11, Account number 16668677 with agreement with the Stationers’ Company a reference of your surname under which a copy of every book published The Weston Library has a new exhibition on followed by HC, e.g. Rosewell/HC. in England and registered at Stationers’ Hall the History of Advertising and there will be OR would be deposited in the library. an opportunity to take this in as well.

Send a cheque made payable to the Stationers' Company Livery The Tour is a wonderful opportunity to see There is also an excellent shop with quite Committee. both the Old Bodleian and the Modern unique gifts. Weston Library and includes the following: Oxford is a beautiful city to visit. It has great Tour of the Bodleian • 14.30-15.30 - A General tour of the transport links by bus and rail. Oxford is less Library Old Bodleian Library that includes than an hour from London and Birmingham Monday, 6 April 2020 the Divinity school (1424) and Duke by train. The Old Bodleian Library and Humfrey’s Library (1488). There will also Weston Library are a 15-minute walk from To: Dave Rosewell LivCom Treasurer be a tour of The Bibliographical Press, a Oxford train station. The city centre has 9 Kingsmere letterpress printing workshop located excellent bus connections and there are five Chislehurst Road, in a 1613 classroom within the main Park and Ride sites connected to Oxford. Chislehurst quadrangle of the Bodleian. Teaching For more information, visit the Oxford City Kent traditional typesetting, and printing Council website. The group will meet at 14.15, BR7 5LE. using Columbian, Albion and other as security will be tight. Cheque payable to the Stationers' Company Victorian presses. Richard Lawrence and Livery Committee. Dr Alexandra Franklin will be on hand to Please also be aware that there are a show you round. (alternate groups of 15 considerable number of steps and uneven people for 30mins each led by Naomi surfaces on this tour, and disabled access is Hillman) limited.

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