The Oxford University Press: An Informal HistoryOxford University Press is one of the oldest and best-known publishing houses in the world. This history, originally published to mark 500 years of printing in Oxford, traces the transformation of the Press from a lucrative Bible house into a great national and international publishing business. Great names in the early history of the Press, like Laud, Fell, and Blackstone, laid sound foundations, but as late as the 1890s the University was censured for sanctioning the publication of the secular and profane literature of Marlowe and Shakespeare. |
Contents
18001860 | 1 |
The Bible Press | 4 |
The Press and the Tractarians | 8 |
A Society of Shy Hypochondriacs | 11 |
VIGILANT SUPERINTENDENCE 1 The Call of the Metropolis | 16 |
The Clarendon Press Series | 19 |
Alexander Macmillan page xii | 24 |
Bartholomew Price 27 | 27 |
The Clarendon Aristotle | 148 |
The Fowlers and the Dictionary | 150 |
History in Ragtime | 158 |
Views from the Outside | 162 |
THE GREAT WAR 1 The Pamphlet War | 172 |
Volunteers and New Recruits | 175 |
Cannan Repels Invaders | 178 |
Passing of the Old Order | 181 |
The Oxford History School | 33 |
Towards the End of Partnership | 38 |
Oxford India Paper | 39 |
Teaching and Research | 41 |
Commissioners and Custodians | 45 |
The Revised Version | 48 |
The New English Dictionary | 53 |
Benjamin Jowett ViceChancellor | 58 |
in 48 53 58 PART III THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR OF LYTTELTON GELL 1 Over Pattisons Dead Body | 66 |
Progress of the Press 18851891 | 80 |
The New York Branch | 89 |
Oxford Classical Texts | 91 |
DistrustfullyDoom | 92 |
Decline and Fall | 97 |
CAESAR AND THE ALLIGATOR 1 Making the Press what it ought to be | 107 |
The Oxford Book of English Verse | 119 |
Fell Types and Facsimile Reprints | 125 |
Sir Walter Raleigh and the Oxford English School | 128 |
Building the London Business | 140 |
66 | 141 |
The Joint Venture | 145 |
Business as Usual | 183 |
The Dictionary of National Biography | 185 |
The Death of Cannan | 187 |
THE INTERWAR YEARS 1 Reconstruction | 190 |
Passage to India | 200 |
The London Business | 202 |
The Music Department | 210 |
Overseas Education | 213 |
The D N B Supplement | 216 |
A Stable of Dictionaries | 218 |
Companions | 223 |
Science | 227 |
The Oxford History of England | 230 |
The Rumpus | 232 |
After the Rumpus | 244 |
THE SECOND WORLD | 248 |
EPILOGUE | 263 |
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