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The History of Oxford University Press: Volume I - Beginnings to 1780 (Hardcover)
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The History of Oxford University Press: Volume I - Beginnings to 1780 (Hardcover)
Series: The History of Oxford University Press
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The story of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of
printing and publishing. Beginning with the first presses set up in
Oxford in the fifteenth century and the later establishment of a
university printing house, it leads through the publication of
bibles, scholarly works, and the Oxford English Dictionary, to a
twentieth-century expansion that created the largest university
press in the world, playing a part in research, education, and
language learning in more than 50 countries. With access to
extensive archives, The History of OUP traces the impact of
long-term changes in printing technology and the business of
publishing. It also considers the effects of wider trends in
education, reading, and scholarship, in international trade and the
spreading influence of the English language, and in cultural and
social history - both in Oxford and through its presence around the
world. This first volume begins with the successive attempts to
establish printing at Oxford from 1478 onwards. Ian Gadd and
sixteen expert contributors chart the activities of individual
university printers, the eventual establishment of a university
printing house, its relationship with the University, and
influential developments in printing under Archbishop Laud, John
Fell, and William Blackstone. They explore the range of scholarly
and religious works produced, together with the growing influence
of the University Press on the city of Oxford, and its place in the
book trade in general.
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