Bookmark — front — c. 1931
 Bookmark — back — c. 1931 | A beautifully illustrated vintage bookmark from my collection. Delightful line drawing and typography. I was able to approximately date the book from the information on it of 'Site of the New Bodleian'. The New Bodleian Library was agreed to in 1931. In 1931 the decision was taken to build a new library, with space for 5 million books, library departments and reading rooms, on a site occupied by a row of old timber houses on the north side of Broad Street. The New Bodleian, as it was known then, was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and went up in 1937–40. Oxford’s libraries are among the most celebrated in the world, not only for their incomparable collections of books and manuscripts but also for their buildings, some of which have remained in continuous use since the Middle Ages. Libraries in the Bodleian Libraries group include major research libraries; libraries attached to faculties, departments and other institutions of the University; and, of course, the principal University library – the Bodleian Library – which has been a library of legal deposit for 400 years. You can read more about the Bodleian Libraries 👉🏼 HERE Blackwell's opened its first bookshop in Oxford in 1846 and its first in Broad Street on 1 January 1879. Since then the Oxford bookshop has grown; sideways, upwards and, most notably, underground. You can read more about the history of Blackwell's 👉🏼 HERE, including seeing another vintage bookmark. |
B. H. Blackwell in 1925. Credit: P Leslie
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