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Oxford Books, Vol. 2: A Bibliography of Printed Works Relating to the University and City of Oxford or Printed or Published There With Appendixes, Annals, and Illustrations (Classic Reprint)
Falconer Madan
Paperback. Forgotten Books 2015-09-27.
ISBN 9781331912811
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Excerpt from Oxford Books, Vol. 2: A Bibliography of Printed Works Relating to the University and City of Oxford or Printed or Published There With Appendixes, Annals, and Illustrations
The Early Oxford Press, a bibliography by myself of printing and publishing at Oxford '1468' - 1640, was published in 1895, and confined itself entirely to books printed or published at Oxford. It was in fact a study of the earlier days of the greatest English press, rather than a view of the literature of Oxford. It was obvious that sooner or later a more interesting volume would suggest itself, which should add to the record of the Oxford Press a corresponding study of the books which concern Oxford, whether printed at Oxford or not.
The present volume accordingly includes a bibliography of books about Oxford, wheresoever printed, and divides them theoretically into three classes: - books of primary importance, fully described; minor pieces, more summarily treated; and thirdly, a register of the Oxford Press.
Pages 1-147 of this volume are therefore a supplement to Volume i, adding to that work an account of books about Oxford not printed at Oxford, and giving a long series of running numbers (1-963) by which each book can be quoted (if desired) as 'Oxford Books' or 'Madan' number so-and-so. The opportunity has been taken to incorporate corrections and additions and to add brief annals of Oxford history for each year from 1450 to 1640.
At pp. 148-58 the year 1641 is treated in a way which was intended to be normal; that is to say, there are (1) Annals, (2) descriptions of primary books, (3) accounts of minor pieces, some of which were printed in London or Amsterdam, and (4) a full record of the Oxford Press for that year, (nos. 964-1003), in which every book mentioned in the preceding divisions has a short reference and number, if it was printed or published in Oxford. It would have been natural, of course, that the example of this year should have been carried out in the years following.
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