[ Printed item. ] Bodleian Library. Staff-Kalendar 1907. [ Together with ] Bodleian Library. Supplement to the Staff-Kalendar 1907.

Author: 
[ Bodleian Library, Oxford; Bodley's Librarian; Horace Hart, Printer to the University ]
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Both items: Oxford: Horace Hart, Printer to the University. [ 1907. ]
£180.00
SKU: 18689

16mo volume. In printed card covers with green cloth spine. The 'Staff-Kalendar' proper unpaginated (circa 200pp.). Title on cover. The supplement, 111pp., printed upside-down at the back of the volume, with its own cover bearing the title. Internally in good condition on aged paper; binding somewhat worn and aged. In small type. Gives a charming insight into the running of a historic institution. As an example, the entry for 1 July commences: 'Dusting begins. | Accession-register for June to be made up. | Fire-buckets to be refilled. | To be cleaned out: - | 1. Hot water channels in Bodley. | 2. Gutters on roof of Bodley. | 3. Gratings of Sheldonian basement windows. | To be cleaned: - | 1. Floor and windows of Sheldonian basement. | 2. Floors of Old Ashmolean basement. | 3. Quadrangle doors (and their locks oiled). | Wheeling cases to be oiled: - | 1. Music-School. | 2. Law-room. | 3. Old Ashmolean basement (both rooms). | Reflectors to be cleaned. | Absence-book to be made up. | [...]' "Regulations relating to Boys" [employees) are piquant as are the names, addresses and functions of adult employees (inc. F. Madan), and notice respecting Betting and Gambling"."Now uncommon.