McKenzie Lectures

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The McKenzie Lectures are a series of annual public lectures delivered by "a distinguished scholar on the history of the book, scholarly editing, or bibliography and the sociology of texts." [1] The lectures are held in Oxford at the Centre for the Study of the Book (Bodleian Libraries). [2] The series was inaugurated in 1996, in honour of Donald Francis McKenzie (1931–1999), upon his retirement as Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, University of Oxford. [3]

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