Falconer Madan

Falconer Madan (15 April 1851 – 22 May 1935) was Librarian of the Bodleian Library of Oxford University.

[2] In 1909 Madan gave the Sandars Lectures on bibliography at Cambridge, choosing as his topic the localisation and dating of manuscripts.

During this time, a new underground book-store under Radcliffe Square was opened, the library records were put into systematic arrangement, and the Bodleian Quarterly Record, a periodical of more than local interest, was started.

[4] Madan helped Sidney Herbert Williams revise his A Bibliography of Lewis Carroll (London: The Bookman's Journal, 1924), the first such, into A Handbook of the Literature of the Rev.

C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (London: Oxford University Press, 1931), receiving co-author credit, and published a supplement thereto in 1935.