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Title: Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Alden, Edward C
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Publisher: Oxford : Alden
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tes or attendants conversing in lowwhispers, or moving quietly about. For reading purposes the library is as freeand as good as the library of the British Museum; with the advantages thatyou may be seated in front of a window commanding a beautiful garden prospect,that your armchair is not disturbed, that books are allowed to accumulate aroundyou, and that you are not obliged to return them to the care of the custodian onleaving the library. The visitor will not fail to notice the portraits in the upperlibrary, and especially to cast a grateful look at the fine portrait of Bodley.He will see the exercise-books used by Edward VI. and Elizabeth when children,and, close by, the autographs of distinguished visitors. The Picture Gallery(see p. 12) is interesting as a series of portraits of University benefactors. Itcontains many curiosities in addition to the pictures : among them a chair made * Total oumber of items received by the Library in the year 1885,-45,873. 12 Aldens Oxford Guide.
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Clarendon Building.—Indian Institute. 13 out of Drakes ship, with an inscription by the poet Cowley.—ArnoldsOxford and Cambridge. Here, too, are some admirable models of ancient temples, &c. From thewindows of the Picture Gallery we get a striking view of the fine building(see No. 21), now used as a reading-room in connection with the Bodleian. Leaving the Bodleian, we quit the Schools Quadrangle by a passage-way onits N. side, and crossing an open space, with the Sheldonian Theatre to ourleft hand, pass into Broad-street through 7. The Clarendon Building, completed 1713. It derivesits name from the fact that the profits of Lord Clarendons Historyof the Rebellion, the copyright of which was presented to theUniversity by his son, were applied towards the cost of its erection.To this building the Printing Press of the University was removedfrom its original quarters in the Sheldonian (1), and here it remaineduntil 1830, when the present Printing Office (48) was erected. In one o

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