Books on the History of the Press
This list aims for completeness
The definitive history of the press is Gadd, Eliot, Louis (Eds) The History of Oxford University Press, 4 vols (Oxford University Press, 2012–17)
Barker, Nicholas, The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning (Clarendon Press, 1978)
Belson, Mick, On the Press- through the eyes of the craftsmen of Oxford University Press (Robert Boyd, 2003)
Carter, Harry, A History of the Oxford University Press- volume 1, to the year 1780 (Clarendon Press, 1975) There is no volume 2, Carter having passed away before its completion
——, Wolvercote Mill- a study of paper-making at Oxford (Clarendon Press, 1974)
Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing (Dover Publications, 1978)
Peter Sutcliffe, The Oxford University Press- an informal history (Oxford University Press, 1978)
Works Citing our Archive
This is a partial list being updated gradually and organically.
Please email us with any and all additions, citing shelfmarks/catalogue references where possible.
Williams, Pip, The Dictionary of Lost Words (London: Chatto, 2021 (2020))
Other Works Cited
Barton, Susan, Working Class Organizations and Popular Tourism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005)