The History of Oxford University Press, Volume III: 1896-1970

By: W. Roger Louis

Book Overview

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: 0199568405
• ISBN13: 9780199568406
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 908 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.9" x 9.8"