Author : Peter Sutcliffe
Release : 1978
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 849/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Oxford University Press by : Peter Sutcliffe
Download or read book The Oxford University Press written by Peter Sutcliffe. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 publishing business. Great names in the early history of the Press, like Laud, Fell, and Blackstone, laid sound foundations, but as late as the 1890s the University was censured for sanctioning the publication of the secular and profane literature of Marlowe and Shakespeare.