List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Retrospect
Part I: Introductory
I: Manuscript Books and the First Two Presses
II: Restraint of Printing and the Allowance of a Press at Oxford
III: Archbishop Laud's Plans for a University Press
IV: Learned Printing during the Interregnum
V: The Gift of a Printing House
VI: Fell's Press
VII: The Books from Fell's Press 1672-1680
VIII: The Beginning of the Bible Press
IX: The Books 1678-1690
X: Technical Matters 1670-1690
Part II: The Augustan Age 1690-1713
XI: Corporate Ownership and Committee Management
XII: The Leasees of Privilege
XIII: The Learned Prss in the Early Eighteenth Century
XIV: Delegates' Books 1690-1713
XV: Authors' Books 1690-1713
Part III: The Bad Time 1713-1755
XVI: The Neglected Press
XVII: The Printing of Oxford Opinion
XVIII: The Books 1713-1755
XIX: Technicalities of Publishing and Printing
XX: The Bible Press and Other Presses in Oxford
Part IV: The Era of Blackstone 1755-1780
XXI: Blacksstone's Reform of the Press
XXII: Press Accounting and Finances
XXIII: The Bible Press 1755-1780
XXIV: The Clarendon Trust
XXV: Universities' Perpetual Copyright
XXVI: Salesmanship
XXVII: The Printing House 1755-1780
XXVIII: The Books 1755-1780
Appendix
Titles of Books printed at the University Press, Oxford, from 1690 until 1780
Index
