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Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921 · Oxford University Press

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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.

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