History of Oxford University Press, Volume I: Beginnings to 1780

By: Gadd, Ian

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199557314
• ISBN13: 9780199557318
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.1" x 9.7"