Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR) magazine, January 1988, Vol. XV No. 1: The Sphinx of Modern Life – Ada Leverson; The Cordell Collection of Dictionaries; Bodleian Library, Baron Corvo

Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR), January 1988, Vol. XV, Number 1 (cover price £1.10) – the Oxford monthly of the antiquarian and second-hand book trade, edited by John Kinnane with associate editor Stuart Bennett. Features: 'The Sphinx of Modern Life: Ada Leverson (1862-1933)' by Dr Julie Speedie (page 8), on the novelist and wit whom Oscar Wilde called 'the Sphinx'; and 'The Cordell Collection of Dictionaries' by David E. Vancil (16). Book reviews: Giles Mandelbrote on The History of the University of Oxford, Volume III (ed. James McConica) and Volume V (ed. L. S. Sutherland and L. G. Mitchell), The First Printed Catalogue of the Bodleian Library, 1605: a Facsimile, Letters of Sir Thomas Bodley to Thomas James (ed. G. W. Wheeler) and The Bodleian Library in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Ian Philip); Anthony Lister on The First 350 Years of the Harvard University Library (Kenneth E. Carpenter); Donald Weeks on The Venice Letters by Baron Corvo, Frederick Rolfe (ed. Cecil Woolf). Columns: ABMR Diary, Letters, Common Market (Anatole Braun), Talking Point (J. Peachum), Paul Minet's Book Chat, Globetrotting (Stuart Bennett, Ron Winch), Auctions (Stuart Bennett), Catalogues (James Fergusson, John Stephens, Anatole Braun), and booksellers' classified advertisements. Cover: E. T. Reed's illustration to Ada Leverson's parody of 'The Sphinx' (Punch, 1894). Published by ABMR Publications Ltd, 52 St Clements Street, Oxford. ISSN 0306-7475. The contents page prints 'Issue 164', the same issue number as December 1987. About 40 pages, 19 x 25.5 cm, stapled. THEMES: antiquarian book trade, Ada Leverson and Oscar Wilde, dictionaries and lexicography, Bodleian Library, Oxford and Harvard library history, Baron Corvo, book collecting, 1980s book trade.

Author: John Kinnane (ed.)

Publisher: ABMR Publications

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good