The Oxford University Press: An Informal History

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Clarendon Press, 1978 - Education - 303 pages
Oxford 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.

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Contents

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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
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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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