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The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning, 1478-1978 : An Illustrated History
by Barker, N
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Top edge slightly spotted, otherwise Near Very Good in a used dustwrapper
- ISBN 10
- 0199510865
- ISBN 13
- 9780199510863
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About This Item
Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1978. Cloth, folio, gilt cover device, patterned endpapers, 31 cm,. xiii, 69 pp, 266 ills (including 4 in colour). 375 entries in catalogue. An informative and well-illustrated account of the history of OUP, the world's longest-established press, over its first 500 years. From the blurb: "This volume celebrates the quincentenary of the introduction of printing at Oxford with a pictorial history of its subsequent progress, illustrated by the books, documents, and pictures which are its tangible record. The story, although it properly begins with the arrival of Theodoric Rood and the first learned and educational books that he printed, stretches back to the early thirteenth çentury when scribes, illuminators, and binders of books were already fourd in Oxford; but it was not until the seventeenth Century that, at the initiative ot two great men, Archbishop Laud and Bishop Fell, the University Press in its present form was established. It is the dark, dominant figure of John Fell, Dean of Christ Church, and then Bishop of Oxford, who emerges as the real founder of the University Press, and the man who determined the type of books which still preoccupy the Press; learned and educational books, and the Bible. After a decline in the eighteenth Century, the Press was rescued by William Blackstone, the great academic lawyer, who reorganized it in time to meet the great new demand for the Bible.. Top edge slightly spotted, otherwise Near Very Good in a used dustwrapper.
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- Title
- The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning, 1478-1978 : An Illustrated History
- Author
- Barker, N
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, folio, gilt cover device, patterned endpapers, 31 cm,
- Book Condition
- Top edge slightly spotted, otherwise Near Very Good in a used dustwrapper
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0199510865
- ISBN 13
- 9780199510863
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1978
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- xiii, 69 pp, 266 ills (including 4 in colour)
- Keywords
- Oxford University Press History Printing England Exhibitions University presses Scholarly publishing Imprints Barker, Nicolas 0199510865
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