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Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
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Title-page of the First Oxford Bible, 1675 _Page 56_
Title-page of the Altar Service used at the Coronation of
King George V, 1911 _Page 57_
Title-page of David Wilkins’s Coptic New Testament,
published in 1716 _Page 60_
The Bombay Branch _Facing 66_
The Toronto Branch _” 67_
The Melbourne Branch _” 68_
The South African Branch _” 69_
The New York Branch _” 70_
Show Rooms at the New York Branch _” 71_
Title-page of _Shakespeare’s England_, published in 1916 _Page 79_
Specimen of Work done by M. Burghers, Engraver to the
University about 1700 _Page 86_
Specimen of Work done in the Studio of the Clarendon
Press to-day _” 87_
Illustration from Lily’s _Latin Grammar_, Oxford 1692 _” 88_
One of the drawings by Henry Ford for _A School History
of England_ by C. R. L. Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling, 1911 _Page 89_
Gateway of the Old Ashmolean. The Editorial Staff of the
Oxford English Dictionary now carries on its work on the
lower floor of this building _Facing 98_
The Headpieces and Initials on pp. 9, 23, 58, 63, and 73 are taken from
Clarendon’s _History of the Rebellion_ (1702), the Bodleian Catalogue of
1738, and other early books printed at the Oxford Press.
The Fell Ornaments on pp. 33, 36, 38, 40, &c., are those used in Sir
Thomas Hanmer’s edition of Shakespeare, published in 1744.
The illustration on p. 112 is from Thomas Hearne’s edition of Roper’s
Life of Sir Thomas More published at Oxford in 1716.
[Illustration]
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Account of the Oxford University
Press 1468-1921, by Anonymous
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