Item 18 - Letter from Falconer Madan to R. B. McKerrow, with notes

Brasenose College, Oxford.—Comments in detail on An Introduction to Bibliography.

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Transcript of letter

Brasenose College | Oxford
Jan. 7. 1928

Dear Mr McKerrow,

I bought your Introduction to Bibliography directly it came out, of course, but have been a good deal delayed in reading it, by other calls on my time.

The book is a standard work from the day of publication, and is very well arranged and clearly written. I had always valued your former Notes on Bibliographical Evidence, from the fact that you, like Reusens in his Paléographie {1}, never run away from a difficulty, but face it, successfully or not.

I have put down a few notes, since sooner or later new editions will come out, and you may like the impressions, on matters of detail only, of an independent reader.

I am
Very truly yours
F. Madan.

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{1} Edmond Reusens, Eléments de paléographie (Leuven, 1899).