Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921 — John Shaqi
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Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
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The Press prints for the official purposes of the University the
_University Gazette_ (recording the official Acts and Agenda of the
University), the annual _Calendar_ (primarily a list of the members
of the University), the _Statuta Universitatis_ and the _Examination
Statutes_ (both published every year), and a number of smaller
pamphlets &c. giving special information. The numerous and far-reaching
changes, made necessary by the war and the fruits of the war, have
hitherto precluded the republication of the useful and popular _Oxford
University Handbook_, last published in 1915. Meanwhile, the pamphlet
of General_ Information_ (on admission, residence, scholarships, and
some examinations) will be found valuable by those, at home and abroad,
who wish to form a general conception of the opportunities afforded to
students and the requirements which they must fulfil.
There are many other official books, both utilitarian and antiquarian.
Employers and others have often occasion to inquire what places a member
of the University obtained in the class-lists. The information, not
always available elsewhere, is given, from the beginning to 1900, in
the _Historical Register of the University_, and for the years 1901-20,
in the _Supplement_ to that work recently published. Benefactors and
others interested in University Finance are directed to the _Abstract of
the Accounts of the University and Colleges_ published annually. Other
publications of local usefulness include the _Oxford University Pocket
Diary_ for the academical year, and the terminal list of all _Resident
Members of the University_ (with addresses, telephone numbers, &c.).
The University twice during the war printed its _Roll of Service_, and in
1920 published the third and definitive edition: it contains the names,
fourteen thousand five hundred and sixty-one in number, of those members
of the University who served in the Military and Naval forces of the
Crown. The names of those who gave their lives, two thousand four hundred
and seventy-four in number, are distinguished by heavy type.
_The Oxford University Almanack_ has been printed annually since 1674,
and of the illustrations since 1716 the Press possesses the original
plates. By far the greater number are still on sale. Many of the recent
plates are of great interest and beauty; those for 1906-10, and that
for 1918, are collotypes from drawings made for the Almanack by Mr.
Muirhead Bone; most of the later issues are chromo-collotypes reproducing
water-colour drawings, preserved at Oxford, by J. M. W. Turner and other
artists of his time.
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