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Luna, P. orcid id iconORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1556-1217 and Ould, M. (2013) The printed page. In: Gadd, I. (ed.) The History of Oxford University Press. Volume 1: Beginnings to 1780. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199557318

Abstract/Summary

In the year 1702 two books were published, in Oxford and Paris, that can now be seen as defining the presses that produced them. In Paris, the Imprimerie Royale issued the Médailles sur les principaux évènements du règne de Louis le Grand, a large folio of text and plates intended to glorify the regime of Louis XIV. In Oxford, the first, large format volume of Clarendon’s The history of the rebellion appeared; painstakingly edited at Christ Church, it brought prestige and profit to the University. Both were considerable statements of publishing intent in graphic form: both were sumptuous, and both used types and decorations reserved to their respective presses. But the French book points the way to future developments in typography, particularly in the design of type, while the Oxford book is a summation of the past, and its types and page design would be abandoned by the Oxford press in little more than thirty years. Tracing the printed pages of Oxford books from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century shows changes that parallel wider developments in English and European typography, but from a distinctly Oxford perspective.

Item Type Book or Report Section
URI https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/26494
Refereed Yes
Divisions Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Arts and Communication Design > Typography & Graphic Communication
Uncontrolled Keywords typography in the early modern period; printing processes; Oxford, London, Paris; Oxford University; Fell types; page design; Caslon types; Baskerville types; scholarly publishing
Publisher Oxford University Press
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