Prof. F.N. Scott T NOTE 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 (p. 481 to the end) 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. 6 *** 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. The compilers of the Catalogue will be grateful for any suggestions that are sent to the Secretary, Clarendon Press, Oxford. iv SECTIONS 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 Universities and 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 AND MEDICINE. VI. OXFORD BIBLES AND PRAYER BOOKS; with Hymn Books, and Books of Devotion. 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 PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY THE CHURCH MUSIC 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 ANGUS AND ROBERTSON LIMITED The Outbreak of the War, p. 2. War Time, Past and Present, p. 5. Contemporary Politics, Philosophy and Literature. The New Hellenism: recent books on Greece and Rome. SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND, the Shakespeare Tercentenary Illustrated Books: Art and Architecture. Five Clarendon Press Monographs; Drawings, Illuminated Manu- Music: the Oxford History and other Treatises The Norman Conquest to 1485: 1. Histories; 2. Documents Tudor and Stuart, 1485–1714; the Reformation and the Rebellion. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Local History, Illustrations . 67 |