The Bodley Head Ltd, publisher

The Bodley Head was founded in 1887 as a partnership between Charles Elkin Mathews and John Lane. It was named after Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The firm used the head of Bodley as its insignia. They initially specialised in decorative limited editions of belle-lettres, as well as Oscar Wilde’s […]

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