Martyn Ould, Printing at the University Press Oxford 1660-1780 (The Old School Press, 2015-2019). Three volumes. Available in both standard (£105)and deluxe editions (£300). Further details here.
Printing at the University Press Oxford 1660-1780 , the most ambitious in its research and extent from The Old School Press, is a three-volume work. Volume I covers three key resources of the Press (in particular the Learned Press) and their development: the premises they occupied and how they were used, the management organisation that ran the Press, and the paper it used and its sources. Volume II covers the type it used and its sources. Each of these resources is dealt with chronologically in order to show the changes that occurred and why, as well as providing the foundations for the third volume. Volume III covers the processes of the Learned Press, detailing how a book progressed from its author's copy, via compositor, corrector, press-crew, and rolling-press man to the Warehouse ready for sale.