TY - BOOK ID - 69070145 TI - A Catalogue of the Books Relating to British Topography, and Saxon and Northern Literature : Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library in the Year MDCCXCIX by Richard Gough, Esq. F.S.A. PY - 1814 SN - 1108057314 1139542540 PB - Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Scandinavian literature KW - Bodleian Library KW - Great Britain KW - Antiquities KW - Description and travel KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) KW - The Bodleian Library KW - Oxford. University. Bodleian Library KW - University of Oxford. Bodleian Library KW - Bibliotheca Bodlejiana KW - Sifriyat Bodli KW - Bodlean Library KW - Bodleyanah KW - Sifriyat Bodleyanah KW - בודליאנה KW - ספריית בודלי KW - ספריית בודלי באוכספורד KW - ספריית בודליאנה KW - ספריית בודליין KW - ספרית הבודליאנה KW - Bodleian Libraries UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:69070145 AB - The leading antiquary of his day, Richard Gough (1735-1809) served as director of the Society of Antiquities for over twenty-five years. The only son of a wealthy family, Gough benefited from being free to pursue his interests without hindrance. His independent fortune allowed him both to conduct his own research and to aid others with theirs. While the topography and Roman antiquities of the whole of Great Britain and Ireland formed his primary focus, he was also an eager proponent of Saxonist scholarship, as the panoply of his collected books on both subjects attests. These, together with a variety of maps, plans, drawings and charts, he bequeathed to Oxford's Bodleian Library. Originally published in 1814, this catalogue constitutes proof of a lifelong interest in, as well as generous support for the continuation of, antiquarian and topographical enterprises. ER -