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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Part of the first lines of the Great Charter of the University granted by Charles I on March 3, 1635/6, in which the printing privileges, first granted on Nov. 12, 1632, were finally confirmed and settled. The large initial C contains a portrait of the King in his robes. The original is preserved among the University Archives. The portion relating to Printing is reproduced in full in Madan’s Oxford Books, vol. ii, pp. 526-30.[Frontispiece]
Device used on the back of the Title of Sphæra Civitatis, Oxford 1588[Page 10]
Four Founders of the Oxford University Press: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; Archbishop Laud; Dr. John Fell; Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon[Facing 10]
The Old Congregation House (interior), Domus Typographica. The first printing-house owned by the University, used not for the process of printing, but for storing Oriental type and printing furniture, and assigned to this object by Convocation on June 3, 1652. Until the opening of the Sheldonian Theatre in 1669 the actual printing was done in the private houses of the University Printers[Facing 11]
Upper Part of the first page of the Oxford (now London) Gazette, 1665. The oldest newspaper or periodical still existing in England[Page 11]
Oxford University Arms. Some ancient examples used by the Oxford University Press between 1517 and 1786[Pages 12, 13]
Illustration from The History of Lapland by John Shefferus, 1674, the first anthropological book published by the Press[Page 14]
‘The Prospect of Aleppo.’ From W. Maundrell’s Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, Oxford 1703, engraved by M. Burghers[Page 15]
Title-page of Anthony Wood’s Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis, published in 1674[Page 17]
The Three University Presses: The Sheldonian Theatre; The Clarendon Building; The Press of to-day[Page 19]
The Quadrangle of the University Press at Oxford[Facing 20]
Fire-place in the Delegates’ Room, Clarendon Building; Grinling Gibbons Fire-place in one of the London Offices[Facing 21]
Specimens of Fell Types ([see p. 15])[Page 24]
Specimens of old Music Types and of present-day Roman and Italic Founts[Page 25]
Specimens of Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Slavonic, Oriental, and Hieroglyphic Types[Pages 26-7]
Ancient Oak Frames in one of the Composing Rooms; The Upper Composing Room; The Monotype Casters; Ink-making; The Old Machine Room; A Perfecting Machine with Self-feeder; The Old Bindery; One of the Warehouses[Between 28 and 29]
The Nagel Building: the New Bindery and the Crypt[Facing 30]
The War Memorial[” 31]
Wolvercote Paper Mill; Rag-sorting; Rag-cutting; Rag-boiling; Rag-breaking; Beater Room; Machine Room; Paper-sorting; Stock Warehouse[Between 36 and 37]
Amen Corner, London[Facing 38]
Examples of Oxford Imprints, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries[Pages 46-7]
Title-page of the First Oxford Bible, 1675[Page 56]
Title-page of the Altar Service used at the Coronation of King George V, 1911[Page 57]
Title-page of David Wilkins’s Coptic New Testament, published in 1716[Page 60]
The Bombay Branch[Facing 66]
The Toronto Branch[” 67]
The Melbourne Branch[” 68]
The South African Branch[” 69]
The New York Branch[” 70]
Show Rooms at the New York Branch[” 71]
Title-page of Shakespeare’s England, published in 1916[Page 79]
Specimen of Work done by M. Burghers, Engraver to the University about 1700[Page 86]
Specimen of Work done in the Studio of the Clarendon Press to-day[” 87]
Illustration from Lily’s Latin Grammar, Oxford 1692[” 88]
One of the drawings by Henry Ford for A School History of England by C. R. L. Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling, 1911[Page 89]
Gateway of the Old Ashmolean. The Editorial Staff of the Oxford English Dictionary now carries on its work on the lower floor of this building[Facing 98]

The Headpieces and Initials on pp. [9], [23], [58], [63], and [73] are taken from Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion (1702), the Bodleian Catalogue of 1738, and other early books printed at the Oxford Press.

The Fell Ornaments on pp. [33], [36], [38], [40], &c., are those used in Sir Thomas Hanmer’s edition of Shakespeare, published in 1744.

The illustration on p. [112] is from Thomas Hearne’s edition of Roper’s Life of Sir Thomas More published at Oxford in 1716.