Annual lecture series in bibliography given at Cambridge University
The Sandars Readership in Bibliography is an annual lecture series given at Cambridge University. Instituted in 1895 at the behest of Samuel Sandars of Trinity College (1837–1894), who left a £2000 bequest to the University, the series has continued to the present day. Together with the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library and the Lyell Lectures at Oxford University, it is considered one of the major British bibliographical lecture series.
1914: Elias Avery Lowe. (1) Characteristics of the so-called National Scripts. (2) Punctuation and critical marks as aids in dating and placing MSS. (3) Graeco-Latin manuscripts. (4) The Codex Bezae and the Codex Laudianus.
1915: A. W. Pollard. The conditions of printing and publishing in Shakespeare’s day in their relation to his text.
1916–1920: [Lectures suspended]
1921: E. Wyndham Hulme. Statistical bibliography in relation to the growth of modern civilisation.
1922: W. C. Bolland. Readings on the Year Books.
1923: M. R. James. The pictorial illustration of the Old Testament from the 14th Century to the 16th.
1925: Ellis Hovell Minns. The influence of materials and instruments upon writing.
1926–1950
1926: A. J. K. Esdaile. Elements of the bibliography of English literature, materials and methods.
1927: G. D. Hobson. English leather bindings down to 1500.
1928: R. B. McKerrow. The relationship of English printed books to authors’ manuscripts in the 16th and 17th centuries.
1929: S. De Ricci. English collectors of books and MSS., 1550–1900, and their marks of ownership.
1930: Victor Scholderer. The invention of printing: facts and theories.
1931: Stanley Morison. The English newspaper: some account of the physical development of the journals printed in London from 1622 down to the present day.
1951: H. S. Bennett. English books and readers 1475 to 1557; being a study in the history of the book trade from Caxton to the incorporation of the Stationers’ Company.
1952: J. C. T. Oates. The history of the collection of incunabula in the University Library.
1953: E. P. Goldschmidt. The first Cambridge press in its European setting.
1954: S. C. Roberts. The evolution of Cambridge publishing.
1955: N. R. Ker. Oxford libraries in the sixteenth century.
2007–2008: Peter Kornicki. Having difficulty with Chinese? — The rise of the vernacular book in Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
2008–2009: Michelle P. Brown. The book and the transformation of Britain, c. 550–1050.
2009–2010: Gordon Johnson. From printer to publisher: Cambridge University Press transformed, 1950 to 2010.
2010–2011: James Carley. From private hoard to public repository: archbishops John Whitgift and Richard Bancroft as founders of Lambeth Palace Library.
2011–2012: Michael Reeve. Printing the Latin Classics — Some episodes.
2012–2013: James A. Secord. Visions of science: books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age.
2013–2014: Nigel Morgan. Samuel Sandars as collector of illuminated manuscripts.
2014–2015: Richard Beadle. Henry Bradshaw and the foundations of codicology.
2015–2016: Anthony Grafton. Writing and reading history in Renaissance England: some Cambridge examples.
2016–2017: Toshiyuki Takamiya. A cabinet of English treasures: Reflections on fifty years of book collecting.
↑Hulme, E. Wyndham, and University of Bristol Library National Liberal Club Collection. 1923. Statistical Bibliography in Relation to the Growth of Modern Civilization: Two Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge in May, 1922. London: Printed for the author by Butler & Tanner.
↑Walker, Emery, and Oak Knoll Press. 2019. Printing for Book Production: Emery Walker’s Three Lectures for the Sandars Readership in Bibliography: Delivered at Cambridge, November 6, 13, & 20, 1924. Edited by Richard Mathews and Joseph Rosenblum. First edition. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press.
↑Morison, Stanley. 1932. The English Newspaper: Some Account of the Physical Development of Journals Printed in London between 1622 and the Present Day. [With Facsimile Illustrations]. Cambridge: U.P.
↑Carter, John. 1948. Taste & Technique in Book-Collecting: A Study of Recent Developments in Great Britain and the United States. Camb.: C.U.P.
↑Oldham, J. Basil, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress). 1952. English Blind-Stamped Bindings. Cambridge: University Press.
↑Lewis, W. S., and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress). 1958. Horace Walpole’s Library. Cambridge [England]: University Press.
↑Norton, F. J., and Fernando de Rojas. 1966. Printing in Spain, 1501-1520. London: Cambridge University Press.
↑"The Book as Artefact." The Book Collector 17 (no.2) Summer, 1968: 143-150.
↑Stopp, Frederick John. 1972. Monsters and Hieroglyphs. Broadsheets and Emblem Books in Sixteenth Century Germany, Etc. [Cambridge]: F.J. Stopp.
↑Gaskell, Philip. 1980. Trinity College Library: The First 150 Years. Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press.
↑Bond, W. H., Stuart B. Schimmel, and Caroline F. Schimmel. 1990. Thomas Hollis of Lincoln’s Inn: A Whig and His Books. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press.
↑Gascoigne, Bamber, and Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1997. Milestones in Colour Printing 1457-1859: With a Bibliography of Nelson Prints. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
↑Kornicki, Peter F. 2008. Having Difficulty with Chinese: The Rise of the Vernacular Book in Japan, Korea and Vietnam. [New York?]: [Cambridge University Press].
↑Secord, James A. 2013. Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age: Sandars Lectures, University of Cambridge, 25-27 February 2013. [Cambridge]: [University of Cambridge].
