| PAGE | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preface | [v] | |
| List of Illustrations and Tables | [x] | |
| Plan of the Bibliography | [xi] | |
| The Oxford Press:— | ||
| Fifteenth Century | [1] | |
| Early Sixteenth Century | [5] | |
| Fictitious or Lost Oxford books, &c., 1459–1584 | [8] | |
| The Oxford University Press, 1585–1640 | [14] | |
| Periodical | [225] | |
| Supplement of Additions and Corrections | [227] | |
| List of Undated books | [236] | |
| Appendix A—The Fifteenth Century Press (a detailed account of books, type, copies known, &c.) | [237] | |
| Appendix B—The Early Sixteenth Century Press | [263] | |
| Appendix C—A chronological list of persons and proceedings connected with book-production at Oxford, A.D. 1180–1640 | [266] | |
| — Discussion of the authorship of the Praise of Music, 1586 | [279] | |
| Appendix D—Documents (Statute, 1373—Charters, 1632, 1632 3, 1636 7—Statute, 1636) | [281] | |
| Appendix E—Woodcut and metal ornaments, tables of use of type, notanda | [289] | |
| Appendix F—Lists of Imprints and tables of Oxford printers and publishers, 1585–1640 | [293] | |
| Index | [315] | |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES
| Plate | ||
|---|---|---|
| I. | A collotype (as are also plates II-VII) of the titlepage of Wats’s translation of Bacon’s Advancement of Learning (Oxford, 1640), see p. [217]: here reduced one-third in length and breadth | [Frontispiece] |
| Oxford type, “1468”-86. | ||
| II. | Type 1 (see p. [241]). The last page of the first Oxford book, bearing the famous colophon with date MCCCCLXVIII, discussed on pp. [245]–52 | [At end.] |
| III. | Types 2 and 3 (see pp. [242]–3). The upper part of the first page of the Latteburius, printed in 1482. Parts of the curious woodcut border are also shown, which is the first used in English printing | [At end.] |
| IV. | Types 3, 4, 5, 6 (see pp. [243]–4). The upper part of K7v of the Lyndewoode, printed in 1483 (?). The coloured initials are of course inserted by hand in the original | [At end.] |
| V. | Types 5, 7 (see pp. [243]–4). The text of f2v of the Festial, printed in 1486 7 (?), showing one of the smaller woodcuts and the woodcut capital G | [At end.] |
| Oxford type, 1517–19. | ||
| VI. | (a) The titlepage of Burley on the Posterior Analytics of Aristotle, printed in 1517 (see pp. [5], [263]), showing the large wood-engraving of the University Arms and the ordinary large type. | |
| (b) The four last lines of the back of the titlepage reproduced above, showing the ordinary large and small type | [At end.] | |
| VII. | The titlepage of Burley de Materia et Forma, printed in 1518 by John Scolar. The woodcut represents a master and scholar. The type is the largest, used in titles only | [At end.] |
| Oxford printing, 1585–1640. | ||
| Each of the first seven hundred copies of this work contains three specimens of actual pages from old Oxford books, copies of which are both common and cheap. Thus nos. 1–200 contain pages from (1) Ursinus’s Summe of Christian Religion, 1587, (2), N. Fuller’s Miscellanea Sacra, 1616, (3) Carpenter’s Philosophia Libera, 1636: nos. 201–322 (1) Ursinus, (2) Fuller, (3) Reusner’s Symbola, 1638: nos. 323–500 (1) Ursinus, (2) Sanderson’s Logica, 1618, (3) Reusner: nos. 501–700 (1) Ursinus’s Summe of Christian Religion, 1589, (2) Du Moulin’s Accomplishment of the prophecies, 1613, (3) Grotius’s Defensio fidei catholicæ, 1636. | ||
| After no. 700, at least one actual page will be given, and its provenance will be indicated by a note of the form “38.20,” implying a page from the 20th book of 1638 (Reusner). | ||
| List of Tables. | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Details of the 15th century books | [238]–9 | |
| Owners of copies of ditto | [240] | |
| Details of the early 16th century books | [265] | |
| Type used in Oxford books, 1585–1640 | [291] | |
| The relations of Oxford printers and publishers, 1585–1640 | [311]–3 | |
PLAN OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHY
15th and early 16th century.
The books of these periods are in some respects exceptionally treated, but the general plan is similar to that of the later press. Pages [1]–7 (printed off in 1889) must be taken in close connexion with Appendixes A and B, which correct and supplement those pages in important points.
1585–1640.
1. After the heading (which in all cases is the author or a body representing the author, if known; otherwise the catch-title) comes the title, reproduced faithfully so far as was possible with the employment of four types. A fifth minute type indicates letters represented by contractions in the original. The occurrence of a “motto” (whether a text or quotation), a device (see p. [289]) or woodcuts (see p. [290]) is noted in square brackets. A * before the heading implies “undated”: a † “no place of printing mentioned.”
2. Next follows the technical description, comprising:—
a. The number of the imprint (see pp. [292]–310: it would have been better to add the names of the printer and publisher to the bare reference).