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Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
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The General Catalogue has in the second edition been brought up to
January 1920, and a third edition is in preparation. Supplements are also
from time to time issued comprehending the books published since the
current edition of the Catalogue. The Supplement now current comprises
all books published in 1920.
For the convenience of specialists the Catalogue is also issued in
sections—History, Literature, the Classics, Natural Science, Cheap
Reprints—and special lists have recently been made of books on such
subjects as the British Empire, International Law and Politics, India,
Modern Philosophy. Schoolmasters and University teachers are asked
to apply for the _Select Educational Catalogue_ issued at frequent
intervals, which by omission of the larger and more elaborate books
allows of illustrative information for which there is no room in the
general catalogue.
The General Catalogue has been computed to contain over 8,000 distinct
books or editions of books. These vary from such works as the _New
English Dictionary_ and the _Dictionary of National Biography_, with
their 15,000 and 30,000 pages, to the smallest and cheapest pamphlets and
school-books. The total may be guessed to comprise something like two and
a half millions of printed pages of which no two are identical.
The issue of the Catalogue has secured a wide and increasing recognition
of the comprehensive character of Oxford publications. ‘There are
publishers and publishers, but there is only one Oxford University
Press’, exclaims a writer in the _Athenaeum_; and many reviewers have
noted with sympathetic admiration the value of the Catalogue, not as a
mere price list but as a work of reference and as a book to read. Though
it necessarily requires revision as new publications accrue, it is hoped
that the Catalogue will not be treated as ‘throw-away literature’. It is
a well-printed and solidly bound book, and the cost of supplying free
copies to book-buyers all over the world is not inconsiderable.
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