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Informationen zum Autor Ian Gadd is Professor of English Literature at Bath Spa University. He is a General Editor of the Cambridge Works of Jonathan Swift. Klappentext The history of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing. This first volume traces the beginnings of the University Press, its relationship with the University, and developments in printing and the book trade, as well as the growing influence of the Press on the city of Oxford. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Introduction to Volume I Part I: Establishing the Press 1: Kristian Jensen: Printing at Oxford in its European Context 1478-1584 2: Jason Peacey: 'Printers to the University' 1584-1658 3: Vivienne Larminie: The Fell Era 1658-1686 4: Matthew Kilburn: The Fell Legacy 1686-1755 5: Matthew Kilburn: The Blackstone Reforms 1755-1780 6: Andrew Hegarty: The University and the Press 1584-1780 7: Martyn Ould: The Workplace: Places, Procedures, and Personnel, 1668-1780 Part II: Learned and Bible Publishing 1585-1780 8: John Feather: A Learned Press in a Commercial World 9a: Richard Ovenden: The Learned Press: Printing for the University: Catalogues of the Bodleian Library and Other Collections 9b: Martyn Ould: The Learned Press: Printing for the University: Ephemera and Frequently Reprinted Works 10: Vittoria Feola and Scott Mandelbrote: The Learned Press: Geography, Science, and Mathematics 11: William Poole: The Learned Press: Divinity 12a: P. R. Quarrie: The Learned Press: Classics and Related Works: Classics 12b: David Money: The Learned Press: Classics and Related Works: New Year Books, University Verses, and Neo-Latin Works 13: Alastair Hamilton: The Learned Press: Oriental Languages 14: Matthew Kilburn: The Learned Press: History, Languages, Literature, and Music 15a: Vittoria Feola: The Learned Press: Law 15b: Peter Murray Jones: The Learned Press: Medicine 16: Scott Mandelbrote: The Bible Press 17: Paul Luna and Martyn Ould: The Printed Page Part III: The Press in its Local, National, and International Context 1584-1780 18: Ian Gadd: The University and the Oxford Book Trade 19: Ian Gadd: The Press and the London Book Trade 20: Ian Gadd: An International Press Conclusion ...
