sub-fonds 457 - Papers of R. B. McKerrow

Área de identidad

Código de referencia

Add. MS a/457

Título

Papers of R. B. McKerrow

Fecha(s)

  • 1912-1957 (Creación)

Nivel de descripción

sub-fonds

Volumen y soporte

80 items, in 6 folders

Área de contexto

Nombre del productor

(1872-1940)

Historia biográfica

Ronald Brunlees McKerrow was born in Putney in 1872, the son of a civil engineer, and was educated at Harrow, King’s College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge. After leaving university he spent three years teaching English in Tokyo before beginningread more

Institución archivística

Historia archivística

These letters and papers were found loose in McKerrow’s annotated copies of four of his own publications, namely The Works of Thomas Nashe (5 vols., 1904–10) (Adv. c. 25. 72–6), Notes on Bibliographical Evidence (1914) (Adv. c. 25. 77), An Introductionread more

Área de contenido y estructura

Alcance y contenido

These letters and papers in this group all relate either to the works from which they were removed or to similar literary and bibliographical subjects.

Sistema de arreglo

The letters, which were all removed from either the Works of Nashe or Notes on Bibliographical Evidence, have been separated from the other papers and arranged in two files (Add. MS a. 457/1–2). Within each of these files the items are arranged inread more

Área de materiales relacionados

Unidades de descripción relacionadas

The printed books from which the present papers were removed are Adv. c. 25. 72–82. The main series of McKerrow’s papers is catalogued under the reference MCKW, and other of McKerrow’s papers are catalogued as Add. Ms. a. 355 and Add. Ms. a. 460.

Reglas y/o convenciones usadas

In descriptions of ‘extent and medium’, a ‘single sheet’ is a single unfolded leaf of paper comprising 2 pages; a ‘folded sheet’ is a sheet of paper folded once, comprising 2 leaves and 4 pages.

Fechas de creación revisión eliminación

This catalogue was compiled by A. C. Green in 2007.