Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

640 S. Mit zahlr. Abb. Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. - Manuscript Books and the First Two Presses -- Restraint of Printing and the Allowance of a Press at Oxford -- Archbishop Laud's Plans for a University Press -- Learned Printing during the Interregnum -- The Gift of a Printing House -- Fell's Press -- The Books from Fell's Press 1672-1680 -- The Beginning of the Bible Press -- The Books 1678-1690 -- Technical Matters 1670-1690 -- THE AUGUSTAN AGE 1690-1713: Corporate Ownership and Committee Management -- The Lessees of Privilege -- The Learned Press in the Early Eighteenth Century -- Delegates' Books 1690-1713 -- Authors' Books 1690-1713 -- THE BAD TIME The Neglected Press -- The Printing of Oxford Opinion -- The Books 1713-1755 -- Technicalities of Publishing and Printing -- The Bible Press and Other Presses in Oxford -- THE ERA OF BLACKSTONE 1777-1780: Blackstone's Reform of the Press -- Press Accounting and Finances -- The Bible Press -- The Clarendon Trust -- Universities' Perpetual Copyright -- Salesmanship -- The Printing House 1777-1780 -- The Books 1777-1780 -- APPENDIX Titles of Books printed at the University Press, Oxford, from 1690 until 1780.