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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 2297 The Oxford University Press: An Informal History, by Peter Sutcliffe (read 3 Jun 1990) This is a 1978 book and is a kind of book I have never read before: a history of a publisher. It wasn't too bad a book and was really quite funny at times! For example: "It did not require any great flair to recognize that Miller's Passerine Birds was going to be a slow seller. Not even the author's best friends or worst enemies would necessarily buy the English translation. Nevertheless its sales record was remarkable: 784 copies were printed, and in the first year seven copies were sold (and 40 given away); in 1880 one copy was sold, and in 1881 two copies. Another copy was sold in 1884, and three more went in the 1890's. After 21 years it had sold 21 copies." The book was fun as it made me realize all the good stuff the Oxford Press has published--1000's of different books, including the gargantuan task of doing the Oxford English Dictionary. One should read the entry on the word "set" therein. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Oxford University Press is one of the oldest and best-known publishing houses in the world. This history, originally published to mark 500 years of printing in Oxford, traces the transformation of the Press from a lucrative Bible house into a great national and international publishingbusiness. Great names in the early history of the Press, like Laud, Fell, and Blackstone, laid sound foundations, but as late as 1870 it was thought necessary to remind the Delegates that publishing books was not 'entirely beside their function'. Even in the 1890s there were still those preparedto censure the University for allowing its Press to publish the secular and profane literature of Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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