The Oxford University Press : an informal History / Peter Sutcliffe
1978, First Edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #393873
ISBN: 0199510849
Physical description; xxviii, 303 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Illus. incl. plates, map (on end-papers) and facsimile. Includes index. Includes index. Contents;
pt. 1. 1800-1860. The Want of Vent -- The Bible Press -- The Press and the Tractarians -- A Society of Shy Hypochondriacs. pt. 2. 1860-1884: 'Vigilant Superintendence'. The Call of the Metropolis -- The Claredon Press Series -- Alexander Macmillan -- The Secretary: Bartholomew Price -- The Oxford History School -- Towards the End of Partnership -- Oxford India Paper -- Teaching and Research -- Commissioners and Custodians -- The Revised Version -- The New English Dictionary -- Benjamin Jowett, Vice-Chancellor. pt. 3. The Mysterious Affair of Lyttelton Gell. Over Pattison's Dead Body -- 'Progress of the Press, 1885-1891' -- Gell's Twelve Masters -- The New York Branch -- Oxford Classical Texts -- The Dictionary: Distrustfully-Doom -- Decline and Fall. pt. 4. Caesar and the Alligator. Making the Press what it ought to be -- The Oxford Book of English Verse -- Fell Types and Facsimilie Reprints -- Sir Walter Raleigh and the Oxford English School -- Building the London Business -- Medical and Juvenile: The Joint Venture -- The Clarendon Aristotle -- The Fowlers and the Dictionary -- History in Rag-time -- Views from the Outside. pt. 5. The Great War. The Pamphlet War -- Volunteers and New Recruits -- Cannan Repels Invaders -- Passing of the Old Order -- Business as Usual -- The Dictionary of National Biography -- The Death of Cannan. pt. 6. The Inter-War Years. Reconstruction -- Passage to India -- The London Business -- The Music Department -- Overseas Education -- The D.N.B Supplement -- A Stable of Dictionaries -- Companions -- Science -- The Oxford History of England -- The Rumpus -- After the Rumpus. pt. 7. The Second World War. Pamphlets, Biggles, and the Home University Library -- Sisam Calling -- Rationing -- Refugee Scholars. pt. 8. Epilogue. Little Pressites -- Global Strategy -- A Benign Era -- The Waldock Report -- Reorganization: Relocation. Subjects; Oxford University Press History. Oxford University Press. Scholarly publishing. University presses.
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