Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921Oxford University Press
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Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press; Printing -- England -- Oxford -- History
Four Founders of the Oxford University Press: Robert
Dudley, Earl of Leicester; Archbishop Laud; Dr. John
Fell; Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon _Facing 10_
The Old Congregation House (interior), Domus
Typographica. The first printing-house owned by the
University, used not for the process of printing, but
for storing Oriental type and printing furniture, and
assigned to this object by Convocation on June 3, 1652.
Until the opening of the Sheldonian Theatre in 1669 the
actual printing was done in the private houses of the
University Printers _Facing 11_
Upper Part of the first page of the _Oxford_ (now
_London_) _Gazette_, 1665. The oldest newspaper or
periodical still existing in England _Page 11_
Oxford University Arms. Some ancient examples used by
the Oxford University Press between 1517 and 1786 _Pages 12, 13_
Illustration from _The History of Lapland_ by John
Shefferus, 1674, the first anthropological book published
by the Press _Page 14_
‘The Prospect of Aleppo.’ From W. Maundrell’s _Journey
from Aleppo to Jerusalem_, Oxford 1703, engraved by M.
Burghers _Page 15_
Title-page of Anthony Wood’s _Historia et Antiquitates
Universitatis Oxoniensis_, published in 1674 _Page 17_
The Three University Presses: The Sheldonian Theatre; The
Clarendon Building; The Press of to-day _Page 19_
The Quadrangle of the University Press at Oxford _Facing 20_
Fire-place in the Delegates’ Room, Clarendon Building;
Grinling Gibbons Fire-place in one of the London Offices _Facing 21_
Specimens of Fell Types (see p. 15) _Page 24_
Specimens of old Music Types and of present-day Roman and
Italic Founts _Page 25_
Specimens of Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Slavonic, Oriental,
and Hieroglyphic Types _Pages 26-7_
Ancient Oak Frames in one of the Composing Rooms; The Upper
Composing Room; The Monotype Casters; Ink-making; The Old
Machine Room; A Perfecting Machine with Self-feeder;
The Old Bindery; One of the Warehouses _Between 28 and 29_
The Nagel Building: the New Bindery and the Crypt _Facing 30_
The War Memorial _” 31_
Wolvercote Paper Mill; Rag-sorting; Rag-cutting;
Rag-boiling; Rag-breaking; Beater Room; Machine
Room; Paper-sorting; Stock Warehouse _Between 36 and 37_
Amen Corner, London _Facing 38_
Examples of Oxford Imprints, fifteenth to eighteenth
centuries _Pages 46-7_
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