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Bodley ’ s collecting interests were varied ; according to the library's historian Ian Philip, as early as June 1603 he was attempting to source manuscripts from Turkey, and it was during “ the same year that the first Chinese book was acquired .” In 1610, Bodley made an agreement with the Stationers ' Company in London to put a copy of every book registered with them in the library.
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Bodley and ’
" Duke Humfrey ’ s Library was refitted, and Bodley donated a number of his own books to furnish it.
By the time of Bodley ’ s death in 1612, further expansion to the library was being planned.
Bodley, became a well-known Roman Catholic preacher and a professor at St Mary ’ s College, New Oscott, Birmingham.
* The Puffin Book of Magic ( 1968 ), republished as Norman Hunter ’ s Book of Magic, Bodley Head ( 1974 )
* Professor Branestawm ’ s Do-It-Yourself Handbook, Bodley Head ( 1974 )
* Professor Branestawm ’ s Compendium of Donundrums, Riddles, Puzzles, Brain Twiddlers and Dotty Descriptions, Bodley Head ( 1975 )
Bodley and were
Architects were invited by public advertisement to submit portfolios of their work for consideration by Bodley and Shaw.
Eventually, in 1893, the east and south wings of another new courtyard – designed by George Frederick Bodley and overlooking the river – were completed.
Subsequent librarians following Bodley were called Protobibliothecarius Bodelianus, the Bodelarian Librarian.
The essential difficulties of his mission were complicated by the intrigues of the queen's ministers at home, and Bodley repeatedly asked to be recalled.
The first Penguin paperbacks were published in 1936, but at first only as an imprint of Bodley Head ( of Vigo Street ) with the books originally distributed from the crypt of Holy Trinity Church Marylebone.
The final alterations to Powis Castle were undertaken at the beginning of the 20th century by G. F. Bodley for George Charles Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis ( 1862 – 1952 ) whose wife improved the garden which she felt had the potential to be ` the most beautiful in England and Wales ’.
A defensive merger with Chatto and Windus was carried out in 1969 ; later The Bodley Head and Virago Press were added to the group, before Cape became an imprint of Random House in 1987.
Also notable amongst Bodley Head's pre-Great War books were the two volume sets: Foundations of the Nineteenth Century ( 1910 and later editions, selling over fifty thousand copies ), and Immanuel Kant, both by Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
Sir Thomas Bodley, the founder of the Bodleian Library, was born in Heavitree, as was Richard Hooker ( 1554 – 1600 ) whose writings were very influential in the Church of England in his own time and later.
The school's first dean, Dean Bodley, told the Ann Arbor News that the school's only formal rules would be two safety precautions: " no smoking except in the student-teacher lounge and persons must wear shoes " – although even these were quickly abandoned.
Its screen of 1904 and reredos of 1904 were designed by G. F. Bodley.
The choir stalls date from the early 20th century ; they were designed by Bodley and Scott and had been intended for the Lady Chapel of Liverpool Cathedral.
The area under the tower has made into the Chapel of the Holy Rood and contains a reredos, an altar and a credence table which were adapted in 1978 from a rood screen of 1890 by Bodley which was taken from Dunstable Priory.
The pulpit and the octagonal font were both designed by Bodley, as were the richly painted screens ( again with panels by Kempe ).
Architects were invited by public advertisement to submit portfolios of their work for consideration by Bodley and Shaw.
R. Deshman has argued that the drawings added to the Leofric Missal ( Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 579 ) in about 979 were influenced by the illuminations of the Benedictional of St. Æthelwold, meaning that the Benedictional was probably produced before 979.
Large dormer windows were added to the roof to allow more light in, and Thomas Bodley reorganized it in the new Continental style ; the old book chests and lecterns were replaced by book shelves — among the first to be used in England — with benches between them.
Bodley and ;
* Primal Vision: Selected Poetry and Prose of Gottfried Benn edited by E. B. Ashton ( NY: Bodley Head, 1961 ; Boyars, 1971 ; Marion Boyars, 1984, ISBN 0-7145-2500-6
* Talk about America: Letters from America 1951 – 1968 ( 1968 ) The Bodley Head ; ( 1981 ) Penguin Books ISBN 0-14-005764-1
" London: The Bodley Head, 1961 ; New York: Amphoto, 1961.
" London: Bodley Head, 1966 ; New York: Viking Press, 1966 ; New York: Da Capo, 1977 ; London: Gordon Fraser, 1977.
Image: Schoolboardoffices. jpg | Offices of the London School Board by Bodley and Garner ( 1872-76 ; demolished 1929
* Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte-OPAC: German archive listing of 1961 New York solo exhibition catalogue: " Victor Brauner: paintings, encaustics, drawings ; 1932-1959 " / Bodley Gallery ; New York, 1961.
It was enlarged in the 15th century and in the 19th century ; G. F. Bodley added the north aisle.
( 1938 ) Sawles Warde: an early Middle English homily ; edited from the Bodley, Royal and Cotton MSS.
He married Ava Bodley ( 1896 – 1974 ) ( daughter of the historian J. E. C. Bodley ) on 28 February, 1925 ; they had one child, Charles Edward Thomas Bodley Wigram ( 27 Nov 1929 – 14 Aug 1951 ) ( who apparently suffered from some sort of birth defect, but sources disagree whether it was Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy ).
* The Day of the Butterfly, London: Bodley Head, 1979 ; New York: Doubleday, 1980.
* The Old Priory, London: Bodley Head, 1981 ; New York: Doubleday, 1982.
Gänzl's Book of the Musical Theatre ( with Andrew Lamb ; Bodley Head / Schirmer ) ISBN 0-02-871941-7
* E. O. Mousley The Secrets of a Kuttite: An Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity and Stamboul Intrigue ( 1922 ; John Lane, The Bodley Head, London & New York )
Bodley and historian
A historian of Liverpool Cathedral observes that it was generous of Bodley to enter into a working relationship with a young and untried student.
John Edward Courtenay Bodley, the historian, and his son, R. V. C. Bodley, the author, descended from Sir Thomas Bodley.
Bodley and Ian
* Beckett, Ian F. W. The Army and the Curragh Incident 1914 Bodley Head for the ARS, 1986
* Ian Mortimer, 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory ( Bodley Head, 2009 )
Bodley and early
Bodley is said to have designed two of Morris's early wallpapers.
Ancrene Wisse was written in an early Middle English dialect known as ' AB language ' where ' A ' denotes the manuscript Bodley 34 and ' B ' the manuscript Corpus Christi 402.
There was controversy before the church was consecrated because Bodley intended to use an early 16th-century altarpiece from Antwerp which had carved tableaux of the Passion as the reredos.
In the early 1950s, however, Meynell united with the owner of The Bodley Head, Max Reinhardt, and resumed control of Nonesuch.
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