The Oxford University Press: An Informal History

Peter H. Sutcliffe

Clarendon Press, 1978 - History - 303 pages

Oxford University Press is one of the oldest and best-known publishing houses in the world. This history, originally published to mark 500 years of printing in Oxford, traces the transformation of the Press from a lucrative Bible house into a great national and international publishingbusiness. Great names in the early history of the Press, like Laud, Fell, and Blackstone, laid sound foundations, but as late as 1870 it was thought necessary to remind the Delegates that publishing books was not 'entirely beside their function'. Even in the 1890s there were still those preparedto censure the University for allowing its Press to publish the secular and profane literature of Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.

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Contents

• 18001860: 1
• The Bible Press: 4
• The Press and the Tractarians: 8
• A Society of Shy Hypochondriacs II: 11
• VIGILANT SUPERINTENDENCE 1 The Call of the Metropolis: 16
• The Clarendon Press Series: 19
• Alexander Macmillan: 24
• Bartholomew Price: 27
• The Oxford History School: 33
• Towards the End of Partnership: 36
• Oxford India Paper: 39
• Teaching and Research: 41
• Commissioners and Custodians: 45
• The Revised Version: 48
• The New English Dictionary: 53
• Benjamin Jowett ViceChancellor: 58
• THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR OF LYTTELTON GELL 1 Over Pattisons Dead Body: 66
• Progress of the Press 18851891: 77
• Gells Twelve Masters: 80
• The New York Branch: 89
• Oxford Classical Texts: 91
• DistrustfullyDoom: 92
• Decline and Fall: 97
• CAESAR AND THE ALLIGATOR 1 Making the Press what it ought to be: 107
• The Oxford Book of English Verse: 119
• Fell Types and Facsimile Reprints: 125
• Sir Walter Raleigh and the Oxford English School: 128
• Building the London Business: 140
• The Joint Venture: 145
• The Clarendon Aristotle: 148
• The Fowlers and the Dictionary: 150
• History in Ragtime: 158
• Views from the Outside: 162
• THE GREAT WAR 1 The Pamphlet War: 172
• Volunteers and New Recruits: 175
• Cannan Repels Invaders: 178
• Passing of the Old Order: 181
• Business as Usual: 183
• The Dictionary of National Biography: 185
• The Death of Cannan: 187
• THE INTERWAR YEARS 1 Reconstruction: 190
• Passage to India: 200
• The London Business: 202
• The Music Department: 210
• Overseas Education: 213
• The D N B Supplement: 216
• A Stable of Dictionaries: 218
• Companions: 223
• Science: 227
• The Oxford History of England: 230
• The Rumpus: 232
• After the Rumpus: 244
• THE SECOND WORLD: 248
• EPILOGUE: 263
• INDEX: 291

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Oxford University Press: An Informal History
• Author: Peter H. Sutcliffe
• Contributor: Oxford University Press
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1978
• ISBN: 0199510849, 9780199510849
• Length: 303 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishing