Somerville College Library
[1] Somerville College Library is situated north of the main quadrangle, facing the Chapel.It is open 24 hours a day, has Wi-Fi, several study rooms and computers, and the main student colour printer and scanner.[5][6] Other notable donations or collections are from Amelia Edwards, Robert Bridges, John Ruskin, William Morris, Vernon Lee, Mary Lascelles and alumnae Vera Brittain, Margery Fry, Margaret Kennedy, Vivien Noakes and Muriel St. Clare Byrne.[9] The library contains paintings by Mary Somerville, John Constable, Maud Sumner and Patrick George.[10] The special collections include one of the first editions of Gustave Doré's illustrated Divine Comedy by Dante, published by Hachette Livre, from 1861; a print of the Divine Comedy from 1578 with 15th century commentary; a print of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer from 1570; an English translation of Giambattista della Porta's Magia Naturalis from 1658; a copy of Shakespeare's Second Folio which was part of David Garrick's library;[11] and a copy of the second edition of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica from 1713.