Excerpt from The Early Oxford Press: A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1568' 1640, With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations
The year 1640 has been chosen as the inferior limit of this bibliography, partly because both the British Museum Catalogue of early English books and Arber's Transcript of the Registers of the Stationers' Company stop at that point, partly because the interest in the products of the press as such was found to be rapidly diminishing, and partly in consequence of the break-up of all quiet progress during the convulsions of the Rebellion, combined with the dismal prospect of that trackless wilderness the literature of the Civil War.
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