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Charles Earl Stanhope and the Oxford University Press (Printing Historical Society, Publication, No. 2)

Author(s):

Hart, Horace; Mosley, James (notes)

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Softcover

Volume Condition:

Very Good

Dust Jacket:

Dust Jacket Condition:

N/A

Dust Jacket Protection:

N/A

Edition:

–

Impression:

–

Signature:

None

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Printing Historical Society

Publication Year:

1966

Publication Place:

London, UK

ISBN:

–

Book ID:

044512

Catalogue(s):

Books on Books, Book Collecting, Print and Design History

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x, [4], 365-412, xi-xxxiv, [2]pp, with a few full page monochrome illustrations. Light card covers with French flaps. 8vo. A little gentle edge wear to card covers; previous bookseller’s pencilled stock number on first leaf, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. A folded invoice/delivery note for the book’s purchase from the publisher, dated 1971, loosely laid in.

A republication of an essay which first appeared in Collectenea in 1896, with notes by James Mosley. The Republication coincided with the 150th anniversary of the death of Lord Stanhope and the 50th anniversary of the death of its author, Horace Hart, one time Printer to the University of Oxford. Stanhope, an eccentric politician, was also a serial inventor who, in the early 1800s developed a ‘secret process’ for stereotyping and a iron printing press and the Oxford University Press was the principle vehicle in adopting the technologies he developed.

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