Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921

by Oxford University Press

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THE
OXFORD
University Press

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INITIAL FROM THE GREAT CHARTER OF THE UNIVERSITY, 1635/6

Granted by Charles I to confirm and settle printing privileges which had been first granted in 1632. [See p. 112]

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SOME ACCOUNT
OF THE
OXFORD
University Press
1468-1921

OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
M CM XXII

Oxford University Press

London Edinburgh Glasgow Copenhagen
New York Toronto Melbourne Cape Town
Bombay Calcutta Madras Shanghai

Humphrey Milford Publisher to the University

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The author desires to express his grateful thanks to all those members of the Staffs of the Press and its Branches who have helped him in the compilation of this sketch, or have contributed to its typographical or pictorial embellishment; and especially to Mr. Falconer Madan, from whose Brief Account of the University Press at Oxford (1908) the historical details here mentioned are derived.

Oxford, December 1921.

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