Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles
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| Founded | 1950 (restored 2008) |
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Society officers, Hilary Term 2016 |
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| Honorary President | Henry Woudhuysen, Rector, Lincoln College |
| Honorary Vice-President | Paul W Nash, Bodleian Library |
| President | John Ryan, Lincoln |
| Vice-President | Matilde Malaspina, Lincoln |
| Secretary | Paul Ostwald, Regent's |
| Treasurer | Rosemary Jeffreys, Lincoln |
| Senior Committee | Cristina Dondi, Giles Mandelbrote, Scott Mandelbrote, Richard Ovenden, William Poole, Derek Walker, Julia Walworth. |
Society officers, Hilary Term 2016
The Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles is a book collecting and bibliophile club run by, and primarily for, students at Oxford University. It was founded in 1950 by a group of young bibliophiles headed by John Granger, Bent Juel-Jensen and R. John Rickett, and the first meeting was held in Hilary Term of 1951. For fifty years the Society held regular lectures, visits and other events during the University terms, and many of the leading bibliographers, librarians, book collectors, booksellers and other literary figures of the period spoke to the Society or hosted visits. Many of the Society's junior members went on to become prominent figures in the world of books, and some later served as senior members of the Society. One of the most influential members was John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls, who encouraged a love of books and manuscripts in a generation of students, and hosted a termly "Warden's Meeting" at which members were encouraged to bring items from their own libraries to pass round and say a few words about; the tradition of the "Warden's Meeting" continued after 1986, when the Warden himself was too ill to host the meetings and, indeed, after his death in 1992. Another of the Society's traditions was the quality of the termly programme cards, often produced by the leading printers and private presses of the age, including the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, the Rampant Lions Press, the Samson Press, the Fantasy Press, the Kit-Cat Press, Big Wheel Press, the Perpetua Press, the Incline Press, the Whittington Press, the Libanus Press, the Rocket Press, the Stanbrook Abbey Press and the Stamperia Valdonega.
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