PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 1916 HIS General Catalogue of the Oxford University Press was in active preparation when the war broke out, and is now perforce issued with such completeness and accuracy of detail as a substituted staff ineligible for military service has been able to give it within the limits imposed by the circumstances of the time. The great increase of the publications of the Oxford Press in the fifth century of its era, which dates from the Jerome of 1468', and specially the increase of the years 1901-1914 with the agencies which the publishing department of the Press has undertaken for learned societies other than the University of Oxford, has made it impossible to confine the list within five hundred pages of close print. The SUBJECT CATALOGUE (pp. 1-480), which has benefited by the assistance and advice of many scholars, is designed to provide an easy conspectus of the books here offered in any field of investigation or study, and the ALPHABETICAL LIST (issued separately) gives the means of rapid ascertainment of the price of any book with a reference for further details to its place in the Subject Catalogue. It has not been possible to include as much as could be wished in the way of description of the contents of books, but (except of school books and other books which are constantly being reprinted) the dates of publication are given, and many brief lists of contents subjoined. Here and there, where the inveteracy of popular error has seemed to demand it, a note, or a hint sufficient for the judicious reader, has been given. A reference s.v. Cervantes, p. 277, would have kept the old legends believed by Carlyle out of the commemorative articles of 1916, and very many entries are sufficiently detailed to make havoc of the 'best edition' that lingers on in secondhand lists. *** It seems probable that the present issue of the Catalogue will be for some time current, and it is requested, therefore, that it may be preserved for reference; though, especially in present circumstances, its statements of price and other descriptions must be conditional upon possibilities of supply and subject to correction. Lists of books subsequently published will be issued and supplied to regular customers, or sent upon application: these will be gathered from time to time in a Supplement which will be " cumulative—that is to say, each issue of it will contain all books published after the present Catalogue was sent to press. And the ALPHABETICAL LIST above mentioned will be reissued from time to time and will contain the latest prices of all books appearing in this Catalogue. The compilers of the Catalogue will be grateful for any suggestions that are sent to the Secretary, Clarendon Press, Oxford. FROM THE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, 1920 THE HE first edition of the General Catalogue published in 1916 was mainly the work of the late CHARLES CANNAN, of whose skill and taste it remains not the least considerable monument. In the period of the war it was not found possible to produce a revised edition, but necessary corrections and additions were supplied by Supplements and by an enlarged edition of the General Index issued separately (the Alphabetical List). The second edition now published aims at completeness in respect of all books published and on sale December 31, 1919; it thus comprehends the periodical announcements of the Press up to Bulletin No. 220, and (except for users of the 1916 Catalogue) supersedes the Supplements of 1917 and 1918. A new edition of the Alphabetical List appears simultaneously. Experience has shown that the Alphabetical List (which includes all authors and editors and many subject-titles, with prices) may conveniently be used as an independent book of reference by booksellers and others whose chief need is the ascertainment of particulars of a named book. The Subject Catalogue it is believed has been found valuable by librarians and students generally, not only as giving full details of Oxford books, but also as affording within its limits an instructive and readable survey of literature in many fields. To those who seek guidance in narrower paths, the select Educational Catalogue is commended. I. GENERAL LITERATURE; Contemporary books on contemporary topics, Prose and Verse, and recently published studies and memoirs, to which are added many Illustrated Books and Books on Art and Music. II. MODERN HISTORY; with which are placed Geography, International Law and Economics, Political Science and Philosophy, with books on Education. III. ENGLISH AND MODERN CLASSICS; the many Oxford editions, large and small, a collection of Books for Boys and Girls; also the Oxford Dictionary and other works on Modern Languages. IV. THE ANCIENT WORLD; in three divisions-Greek and Latin, Biblical and Patristic Texts, Oriental Languages and Literature. V. NATURAL SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND TECHNOLOGY. VI. OXFORD BIBLES AND PRAYER BOOKS; with Hymn Books, &c. IMPRINTS Besides the books which bear the Oxford imprint of the University Press AT THE CLARENDON PRESS or AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS or the imprint used by Mr. HENRY FROWDE, or since 1913 by Mr. HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, LONDON the present Catalogue contains publications bearing the imprints of THE DUGDALE SOCIETY THE SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION THE EGYPT EXPLORATION SOCIETY THE CHAUCER SOCIETY THE PALI TEXT SOCIETY THE CHURCH MUSIC SOCIETY THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY Also of THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS THE CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION THE AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION and of OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AMERICAN BRANCH Shakespeare: Shakespeare's England; the Shakespeare Tercentenaries Contemporary Essays and Studies, chiefly literary Illustrated Books: Art and Architecture. Five Clarendon Press Monographs; Drawings, Illuminated Manu- The Norman Conquest to 1485: 1. Histories; 2. Documents Tudor and Stuart, 1485-1714; Reformation and Rebellion Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Local History, Illustrations Law . 128 b The Balkans, Russia; Turkey and the Far East. Military History International Law and Economics Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Universities, Academies and Schools. Oxford, Statutes and Regulations, History of the University The British Academy, St. Andrews University, University History Clarendon Press Library Editions of English Classics The Chaucer Series; Drama; the Dramatists; Shakespeare Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, More to Aubrey Walpole's Letters (TOYNBEE), Johnson and Boswell (HILL) |