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Oxford in the 'Seventies 245Bodley bangle was never retrieved. One other memorandummay appeal to others as to me. On the 5th ofJuly, 1879, Ingram Bywater, M.A., Fellow of ExeterCollege, was appointed a Sub-Librarian in succession tothe Rev. J. W. Nutt. But within the year Bywater retired,and resumed his full work in Exeter, where he hadfor years been accumulating that store of choice editionsof the classics, which has now by his generous legacypassed into the possession of Bodley. In those old days,were you a pupil of his, and had you soothed him witha morsel of pretty good work, you might find yourselfrewarded by sight of his latest acquisition, and initiated,with an ironical lisp, into the secret of the three stagesof Bibliomania: first, care for the contents of the book;secondly, appreciation of paper, print, and margin;thirdly, the climax, pure love of lovely binding!XII. THE PRESSTwo at least of the printing presses in Oxford duringthe 'seventies may have satisfied Bywater in his mostcritical humour: the private press of his friend Daniel,and the University Press, whose proper title immortalisesits obligation to Clarendon's History. The Rev. C. H. O.Daniel, Fellow, Bursar, and finally Provost of WorcesterCollege, might almost be described as a born printer. Atthe age of nine years (in 1845) he worked a hand press athome in Frome, with his brothers, and produced, in thecourse of some eighteen years, eleven small books, andhundreds of labels and notices. He resumed his hobbyin Oxford, during our decade; and though the majorityof his productions are dated after its limit, he printedNotes from a Catalogue of Pamphlets in Worcester CollegeLibrary in 1874, and two years later A New Sermon of theNewest Sort 1642-3, from a manuscript. With his ErasmiColloquia duo in 1880 and The Garland of Rachel, twelve