Hart's rules for compositors and readers at the University of Oxford Press

by Horace Hart

Book, 1983

Status

Available

Call number

686.2

Publication

Oxford University Press

Description

Excerpt from Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford A correspondent wrote that he had just bought a copy 'at the Stores and as it seems more than complaisant to provide gratuitously what may afterwards be sold for profit, there is no alternative but to publish this little booh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.… (more)

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This small reference book was first intended (in 1893) for the use of compositors and readers of the OUP, but now offers to all writers, publishers, and printers guidance on such matters as spelling, punctuation, capitalization, italicization, abbreviations, setting of foreign languages or
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treatment of footnotes. Its 38th edition (1978) was fully reviewed in The Indexer, and the verdict then pronounced appears on the jacket of this new edition: '. . . few writers who want their work to be printed could fail to gain greatly from the new insights to be obtained by reading Hart. Most of them will want to keep this little book always within arm's reach while working.'
The 39th edition is revised, updated and reset, and brought in line with The Oxford dictionary for writers and editors to which it forms a companion volume. It includes a new section on machine-readable codes, and the foreign languages section has been expanded to cover the setting of Welsh, Dutch, and Afrikaans. The new edition will be as useful as its predecessors.
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