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Falconer Madan

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from 1919 to 1921, and President of the Oxford Bibliographic Society in 1924 and 1925. He published many library-related works. In 1932, he received the Gold Medal of the
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Oxford Books: a bibliography of printed works relating to the university and city of Oxford or printed or published there
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Madan was a fellow of Brasenose from 1875 until 1880, when he was appointed sub-librarian of the
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on bibliography at Cambridge, choosing as his topic the localisation and dating of manuscripts.
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The Early Oxford Press: a bibliography of printing and publishing at Oxford, 1468–1640
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The Daniel Press: memorials of C. H. O. Daniel, with a bibliography of the Press 1845–1919
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is the chief monument of his work. In 1889, Madan became a Fellow again and lecturer in
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was opened, the library records were put into systematic arrangement, and the
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Falconer Madan married Frances Jane Hayter (1862–1938) second daughter of
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A Handbook of the Literature of the Rev. C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
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A digitised copy of the work is available from The Internet Archive
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until 1913. Another significant publication of this period is his
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A Handbook of the Literature of the Rev. C. L. Dodgson (
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British librarian, librarian of the Bodlian Library
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Librarian
Bodleian Library
Oxford University
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Marlborough College
Brasenose College, Oxford
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Bodleian Library
palaeography
Sandars Lectures
Librarian of the Bodleian
Radcliffe Square
Library Association
Bibliographical Society
Bibliographical Society
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Harrison Hayter
Geoffrey
Charles Fox Burney
Venetia Burney
Pluto
Books in Manuscript
The Gresleys of Drakelowe
Roberts, R. Julian
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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