Papers of Sir Walter Greg

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. c. 603-8
  • Dates of Creation
    • [ca. 1940]-1955
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 6 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Papers of Sir Walter Greg, consisting of:

  • Chapters I-IV of an unpublished study of the Stationers' registers, entitled 'Aspects of London publishing 1550-1650', ca. 1940-2
  • Drafts of the Lyell lectures for 1954-5, published as Some aspects and problems of London publishing between 1550 and 1660 (Oxford, 1956)

Administrative / Biographical History

Sir Walter Wilson Greg (1875-1959) was a bibliographer, Shakespearean scholar and historian. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Access Information

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

Acquisition Information

The papers were given to the Library by Sir Walter Greg in 1958.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

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. 44329-34.

Bibliography

See Scope and Content.