Item 111 - Typescript of R. B. McKerrow's Sandars Lectures

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS b/111

Title

Typescript of R. B. McKerrow's Sandars Lectures

Date(s)

  • 1928 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

3 folders: c 100 sheets

Context area

Name of creator

(1872-1940)

Biographical history

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

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Three part lecture series entitled "The Relationship of English Printed Books to Authors' Manuscripts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries".