"One
may say that there is no adequate reason why a university press should
confine itself to works of scholarship which have very little chance of
paying for themselves; and that, for instance, the Oxford University
Press publishes miscellaneous books. But not all books bearing the
Oxford University Press imprint are of necessity scholarly books.
Responsibility for scholarship, format, etc., is indicated by the
special imprint, "Oxford: At the Clarendon Press." This has a special
meaning, which is that books like Thompson's Greek and Latin Paleography, McKerrow's Introduction to
Bibliography, or Murray's Aeschylus, The Creator of Tragedy are published by the authority of the University, and the contents as well as form are certified by the University through the delegates of the Press. In other words, the imprint "Oxford: At the Clarendon Press" is the hall-mark of scholarly work. The imprint "Oxford University Press" does not imply that the books bearing it have necessarily a relation to the University delegates. It is the imprint of a publishing house of very high repute whose English publications are printed at the University Press, Oxford. At the Cambridge University Press there is not the same division of responsibility as at Oxford. Every book published by the Cambridge Press has the approval of the syndics as to its contents."
Bibliography, or Murray's Aeschylus, The Creator of Tragedy are published by the authority of the University, and the contents as well as form are certified by the University through the delegates of the Press. In other words, the imprint "Oxford: At the Clarendon Press" is the hall-mark of scholarly work. The imprint "Oxford University Press" does not imply that the books bearing it have necessarily a relation to the University delegates. It is the imprint of a publishing house of very high repute whose English publications are printed at the University Press, Oxford. At the Cambridge University Press there is not the same division of responsibility as at Oxford. Every book published by the Cambridge Press has the approval of the syndics as to its contents."
Daniel Berkeley Updike
From the essay:
"American University Presses" in
"Some Aspects of Printing Old and New"
Publisher William Edwin Rudge, New Haven 1941
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