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The History of Oxford University Press: Three-volume set
The History of Oxford University Press Threevolume set Author:Ian Gadd, Simon Eliot, W. Roger Louis The story of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing. Beginning with the first presses set up in Oxford in the fifteenth century and the later establishment of a university printing house, it leads through the publication of bibles, scholarly works, and the Oxford English Dictionary, to a twentieth-century expansi... more »on that created the largest university press in the world, playing a part in research, education, and language learning in 50 countries. With access to extensive archives, The History of OUP traces the impact of long-term changes in printing technology and the business of publishing. It also considers the effects of wider trends in education, reading, and scholarship, in international trade and the spreading influence of the English language, and in cultural and social history - both in Oxford and through its presence around the world.« less