Author: Hiscock, W.G.
Title: A Christ Church Miscellany. New Chapters on the Architects, Craftsmen, Statuary, Plate, Bells, Furniture, Clocks, Plays...
Description: Oxford, Author/ Oxford Univ. Press, 1946. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xix,260,(51)pp, Signed by author on title.Slight bump to lower spine edge.. 51pp photo plates. Some light cover spotting,minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Full title reads: ".A Christ Church Miscellany. New Chapters on the Architects, Craftsmen, Statuary, Plate, Bells, Furniture, Clocks, Plays, Clocks, Plays, The Library and other Buildings". Contents: The Deans; The Old Library; Henry Aldrich, Book-collector, Musician,Architect; The Aldrich Engravings; William Townesend, and his Building of the Library; The Atterbury,Stratford,Orrery, and Wake Collections; The Decoration of the Library, 1752-72; General John Guise; The Library Statues; The Dark Age; Some Late Gifts; The Undergraduates' Reading Room; Reorganization; Lost Books; Lost Music; The Plate and some Oxford Goldsmiths; Great Tom and the Ring; Furniture; Clocks; Plays, 1548 - 1945; Buildings; Appendixes:William Townesend's Proposals for the Library;..Estimate for the Library; Lost Books: Details of Track; Tom Tower Account, 1681; 'The Triumphs of Levy'.1675, attributed to Dryden; Artists & Craftsmen working in or for Christ Church.

Keywords: Christ Church College, Oxford University, English architects, Architecture, England, Library history, Libraries, Universities, Colleges