User:Pwendt/Publishers/Oxford
created 2019-03-29 by exports from homepage, then section 1 User:Pwendt#March 2019; and from the parent pages, /Publishers#Oxford series
Oxford series
- [1] Man Gua 1959-03-20 p12 ; Mary Crozier, "Limits of the Imagination": "[OUP] has cast its net wide and brought a number of them [how recent?] into a new series--the Oxford Children's Library at the price of 5s." (16 books?) --"three more of the series are due in April" inclg Tarn
- [2] Man Gua -07-04 p4 ; Mary Crozier, "Jules Verne and science fiction"
- The Guardian [new title] 1959-12-04 p10 ; Mary Crozier, "A Jolly Lot of Girls" --school stories and otherwise, including The Lark
reprint series, barely named in newspapers except by Mary Crozier (no hits 1957/58, 60/66)
- pubseries Oxford Children's Library
WorldCat
- se:"Oxford children's library" (94 numbered hits, not all genuinely distinct titles; 1958 to [1975] including 18 as 1958)
- 1958- o[3] o[4], 1967- o[5]
- Crozier 1959-03-20 implies #1-16 1958?, #17-19 1959-04, #20-22 1959-09
She names 8 of 16. And three each for April, September
- Apr59 The Little Duke; #18 The Treasure of the Isle of Mist; #17 Prelude
- Sep59 The Lark in the Morn; Simon; #21 The Valiant Sailor
The Treasure #18, ISBN 019277018-7
2 belated hits 1967/1974
- 1969-03-27 p11 The Guardian, as "two new additions"
- 7/6 The Great Gale (Burton)
- 7/6 For the King (Welch) #51
- 1970-05-15 p703 "Spring Books from Oxford" New Statesman
- 10/- Ballerina (Nadia C-P) #58
- 10/- The Grange at High Force (Philip Turner) #59
- 10/- The Lark on the Wing (Vipont) #60
WorldCat also reports
- 1970 The Bronze Chrysanthemum #61
- 1970 The barque of the brothers : a tale of the days of Henry the Navigator (Baumann) #62
- 1970 Timpetill (Manfred Michael) #63
WorldCat records imply the last new addition is either 1970 or [1971] Brother Dusty-Feet o[6] ISBN-0192770241 #24; or 1974 Minnow on the Say o[7] ISBN-0192770640 #64? Amazon UK; or 1974 Captain of Dragoons o[8] ISBN-0192770659 #65? Amazon UK; or [1975] The Armourer's House o[9] ISBN-0192770276 #27
Amazon UK #66 Knight's Fee (Rosemary Sutcliff) o[10]
- #64-66 may be ISBN assigned 1974 to earlier Oxford Children's Library publications?
Re #66 see the 1973 Oxford paperback UK o[11] ISBN-0192720384
no match: 0192770675 683 691
support for this interpretation of ISBN: o[12] The Gauntlet #11 as 019277011-X o[13] 1972\1958
skim all; here list other likely spec-fic
- Eleanor Farjeon, The Glass Slipper #28 1962 \1955 T2260366
- Max Voegeli, The Wonderful Lamp 1963 o[14] o[15] --1955 transl. E. M. Prince of 1952 German ; o[16] o[17] 228pp B55-6481
- Hilda Lewis, The Ship That Flew 1965 o[18] --1939 T1572515
- Ruth Manning-Sanders, Animal Stories #40 1967 o[19]
- Eleanor Farjeon, The Silver Curlew #56 1969 \1953 T1935396
Max Voegeli --nidb niLC [10] https://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-voegeli,%20max/ [20] = Michael West 1921-05-02 to 1985-04-24
search newspapers 1955\1963 (7: 1955 3, 1956, ; 1960, 1961 2 Prince of Hindustan 12/6)
- 10/6 [21] The Spectator 1955-07-08 p51 Amabel Williams-Ellis "[TWL] (a non-traditional tale bya Swiss author) is a good story of a little boy of the time of Haroun al Raschid who sails with Sinbad and becomes a prince." ;
- Oxford US $2.75 [22] NYT 1955-09-04 [23] 1956-08-05 "[TWL] ... is not a fairy tale, though the lamp which Ali ached to possess was Aladdin's lamp. ... "
- Prince of Hindustan --a sequel?
- The Silver Nutmeg, Palmer Brown (book 2, K); Pawpaw book 1 at Kirkus
- Magic Island, Clifford Webb (Golliwogs picture book, probably o[24] o[25]
https://lccn.loc.gov/no98080420 https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no98-080420
Kirkus brief, positive, no date
Kirkus: Tarnowska, The Arabian Nights K as 2010-12-01
Thief of Bagdad (1924 film) [26]
Amazon
- Wonderful Lamp 1955 B007T3S5OY (no image); 1957(?) [27]; 1963 [28]
- Prince of Industan 1960 [29]; 1961 [30]
- Robin Hood 1977 [31]
- Eleanor Farjeon
User:Pwendt/People/Eleanor Farjeon
- (The) Oxford Bookshelf --nidb
WorldCat
- se:"Oxford bookshelf" (74 hits; 1930 30 31 (64 as 1936 to 1941) 43 44 44 46 48 49 63)
- 1936 o[32], 1941- o[33]
- 1943 "2d ed. with an appendix of additional poems, and a critical introd." o[34]
- 1946 "Rev. with additions" o[35]
5 other late dates are all later impressions.
- pubseries The World's Classics
- se
- "World's Classics" --3 indb --WorldCat search hits all "Oxford World's Classics"
also, not to be confused with (NY, London: M.W. Dunne) Library of World's Classics
newspapers "grant richards" "world's classics") 1900/01 (45 hits; one May 1901, 44 from June)
- [36] The Bookman May 1901 p3 (= 1901 p35?) both the GRichards series (the first three mid-May) and Macmillan "Library of English Classics" (25 out, two Carlyle fc May) --in fact #3 is listed among "This week's books" Saturday Review 1901-06-08 --#2 among "Books Received" The Speaker 1901-06-08 p288
- [37] Man Gua -06-25 p4 "From Mr. Grant Richards's Spring List"
- #1 (Brontë 1) Jane Eyre --#1-2 among "Books Received The Sphere 1901-06-08 p256
"neither of the series produced by the firm of Walter Scott nor the series issued by the Routledges [3 series mentioned above?] had anything approaching the bulk of the Grant Richards's series." (end quote) Cover design for the series by Laurence Housman.
- #2 (Lamb) The Essays of Elia and last essays of Elia o[40]
- #3 (Tennyson)
- [41] The Spectator 1901-07-27 p139 "From Mr. Grant Richards's Spring List", #1-3, now listing #4-10 as forthcoming September [schedule and sequence revised in fact]
- #4 1901 Grant Richards (Goldsmith)
- #5 (Hazlitt) o[42] --or that is Hazlitt 1, World Classics 5
- #6 1901 Grant Richards (Emerson)
- #7 1901 Grant Richards (Keats)
- The Spectator 1901-11-02 p679 "From Mr. Grant Richards's Autumn List. Just Published." --includes #6-7 --same 1901-10-12 p539 lists none
- #8 38 120 121 128 (Dickens, 1901-07)
- #9 1901 Grant Richards (Ingoldsby)
- #10 1901 Grant Richards (Brontë 2) Wuthering Heights
1902 Grant Richards --forthcoming one monthly
- #11 (Darwin) o[45]
- #12 (Bunyan 1) Pilgrim's Progress o[46]
- #14 (Brontë 3) Shirley
- #15 (Hazlitt 2) Sketches and Essays
- #17 (Defoe) Robinson Crusoe
- #19 (Carlyle [2?]) Sartor Resartus
- #20 (Swift) Gulliver's Travels o[47]
- #21 (Poe 1) Tales of M & I o[48]
1903?
- #24 (Bacon 1)
Carlyle 1902-09 1-2 Richards -> 3-6 Frowde o[49]
Chaucer 1903-06 #42 56 76 Richards
some others
- 1926 reprint t.p. Amazon US
- as 1927 t.p. Amazon US; Nerja Books
- 1926 306 --indb NEEDs series (Le Fanu) Uncle Silas o[51] P264275 --signed "(DES May 2008)"
- 1927 315 (ed.) P502794 as 1937 PV Linguist o[52]
- First Series, Second Series candidate years 1914, 1921 from Amazon dealers
- 1927 323 (Collins, ed.) P358620 --NEEDs Contents attention
- first? t.p. Archive.org
- 1929 w Contents list o[53]
- 1928 (Bulwer Lytton) o[54]
- 1928\23 #254 (Reuben Levy --nidb) The Three Dervishes o[55]
- 1928 #316 (Collins) The Moonstone and The Haunted Hotel
- 1928 #325 (Meinhold) Mary Schweidler T1404498 o[56] o[57]
- 1934 #411-413 (Rabelais) Gargantua o[58]
- 1934 #414 (Wells) Short Stories o[59] --meagre
- 1934 #422 (Peele) The Old Wives' Tale o[]
- 2010 The Old Wife's Tale, 2nd o[60]
- [61] #323
NOTE TO SELF Size? WorldCat listings (20 matching 20) that differ from those below : title 36 144 : author 50 171 399 : [correct variants 100 351] Titles 144 and 282 need attention anyway.
Gargantua EoFantasy
- Of the many translations the most vigorous and best-known early version is by Sir Thomas Urquhart (Books 1 and 2 1653 UK, Book 3 1693 UK) and Peter Le Motteux (Books 4 and 5 1694 UK); the most successful contemporary version is by Burton Raffel (1990 US).
March 2019
- World's Classics
- Grant Richards Ltd https://lccn.loc.gov/nr2004015252 (0) https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr2004-015252
- Grant Richards 1872 1948 ODNB https://lccn.loc.gov/n88156404 (20) https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88-156404
WorldCat [se:"world's classics"](8156 hits) ; se:"the world's classics"(334) --almost none early ; richards; se:"world's classics"(239)
- hits 1-14 no date
- 1901, hits 15- -- Ingoldsby 752876780 556794805
- 1902, hits -82 = Ingoldsby, no printing 614471887 ; Poe 469147746 916576445; Gulliver 62194874 958950614 471900506 1068752680
- 1903, hits 83-173 = Poe as reprint o[62]
identification as 2nd or later printing, not found Odyssey at HathiTrust o[63]
- 1904, hits 174-217
On the Origin of the Species, 3rd impression, January 1904 o[64]
- 1905 (218-21) = Ingoldsby, no printing o[65]
- 1906 (222-24) 1907 (225) 1908 (226) ... and "Richards" as contributor
frowde; se:"world's classics"(528)
- Iliad as Frowde, 1903, Repr o[66]
- Odyssey as Frowde, 1903 o[67] reports "January 1918" list in back pages
- Gulliver as [1904], no comment o[68]
- 1906, begins hit #119
- Aylwin, 2nd impression, with Dedication and Postscript, 1906 o[69] -HDL
- 1902 as Grant Richards P591199 -- (1902) title page at HDL (there mis-catalogued as Oxford U.P.) --contains list of TWC #I to XX
- 1903 as Henry Frowde --1st reprint stated (1903) title page at HDL --contains list of TWC #1 to 66; some as Third Impression, or Fourth
- This collection of "Poe's Tales" was first published in "The World's Classics" in 1902, and reprinted in 1903. --NOTE this ed. undated, presumably not 1903 [a] stated Henry Frowde; [b] list TWC #1 to 66
- no cover
- LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW // NEW YORK AND TORONTO --maybe a clue to the year
- Montaigne and Lavengro are #65, 66 #1 to 66
- 1910 as Henry Frowde; Oxford --3rd reprint stated (1910) title page at HDL (there mis-catalogued as J.M. Dent, 567 pp); now a simple half-title page
- no cover
- 2-page frontispiece contains portrait of Poe
- printed by Ballantyne
- back pages 3-8, List of the Series, alphabetical #1-194 at least "HUMPHREY MILFORD // OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS"
- #189 Wordsworth, earliest report at WorldCat o[70] as [1913] H. Milford
- #194 Betham-Edwards, Lord of the Harvest o[71]-HDL as [1913] H. Milford, OUP; o[220808538] as #196, o[1087708248]
- 2 copies identical U California p[245-] 7+3 styles "April 1913"
- #115 Leigh Hunt o[72]-HDL as [1912] H. Frowde; o[73] as probably 1907 ; o[74] as 1906 H. Milford, reprinted 1912, 1928
- 1903 Dent & Dutton; 1906, 1912 Frowde, OUP 1907 Long; 1923 ed. Milford
World's Classics at HathiTrust, 4 eds./printings of Leigh Hunt with publisher List/Index of the series
- 1906? U Alberta 9+3 styles "October 1911", p3- "List of Titles *=pocket edition available, #1-169 in sequence
- Indiana U "Humphrey Milford" (with decorative front endpaper and portrait); 7+4 styles "August 1915"; p3-8 "List of the Series", by author (at least 207, Taylor, Confessions of a Thugted Speeches)
- 1912 per catalogue U California p3-8 list, October 1923 (#252 Trolloppe, The Claverings; #245-49, 56-57 Austin Dobson)
- Michigan St "Oxford"; over 400 volumes; p3 "Latest Additions", p4-14 "Complete List of the Series" by category, p15-16 "Index of Authors" August 1933 (#411-13, Rabelais, G and P)
- 1928 per catalogue no view
- 1904-10-29 Grant Richards, 1s. each (2) [75] ; same-day Saturday Review "This Week's Books"; same-day Ath "Lavengro has been added"
- ==> here probably the Grant Richards series ceased
The World's Classics, 1901--1905
- ("the world's classics" frowde) (22: 3, 4, 4, 6, 5) --spurious except
- ("the world's classics" richards) (200: ~40 ~54 53 44 9)
- earliest [76] The Bookman 20.116 (May 1901) p33-35 --"will begin to publish about the middle of May" cloth 1/-, leather 2/- ; specimen volume, first three titles
- [77] The Sphere 20.264 (1905-02-11) p166 --bankruptcy --several offers; Routledge's own series
- [78] -03-25 Methuen Standard Series in contrast
- [79] -04-29 Routledge's imitation
- [80] -10-25 Mr. Henry Frowde of the Oxford University Press --65 shilling volumes have appeared
("the world's classics" frowde) 1901--1905 --all spurious mentions of Frowde except late 1905 notice of his acquisition
- #4 Vicar of W, mentioned Spectator 1901-11-09 p710
- #9. IX Ingoldsby "Books Received" The Speaker 5.112 1901-11-23 p224
- 20 Gulliver
- #21.23. XXI Tales and Opium Eater, listed "This Week's Books", Saturday Review 94.2457 (1902-11-29) p686 --unnumbered, 1/- ; also "New Editions and Reprints" Spectator -12-06 p902
- #41. Buckle's History v1, and Herrick (Herrick only from Constable Press) "Reprints" Ath 1903-09-12 p347
- #47.46. Villette, and Tolstoy's Essays and Letters 1888-1903 Ath -12-12 p794 ; Villete received, The Sphere -12-19 p230
- #48. Buckle's History v2 "Over forty volumes have now been published in this successful venture, which has made English classics in many lines accessible." but little Biography; Ath 1904-02-06 p174
- [81] editorial The Academy -04-23 --on Richards "Boys' Classics" 1. James Grant, 2. Marryat
- #57. Hazlett, The Spirit of the Age "just added"
- #61-66. The Graphic 1904-12-03 p748 "New Editions and Reprints" : "upwards of 80 volumes", the latest Lavengro; Adam Bede; Autocrat; Heroes; Gibbon v5; Montaigne v1 (6); Boys Classics: Mohicans, Crusoe
- [82] The Graphic 1904-04-03 p604 "A Criminal Croesus" on Mr. George Griffith's latest, and Fairy Tales of Science in general
("the world's classics" frowde) 1906, 41 hits
- The Sphere 1906-03-24 p288 "A Literary Letter" (CSK) --on reprint series (and introductions) Richards/Frowde The World's Classics; Dent Everyman's Library (red roan covers at 1/6 and 2/- resply); Macmillan's Cabinet Library (many copyright books)
- photo portrait of Frowde;
- [83] Ath 1906-04-28 p517 "In about a fortnight a batch of new volumes will be added ..." (6 named)*
- Pocket editions in prep; also all volumes to be revised and reissued
- 1906-05-12 Academy p458 "Forthcoming Books" --100 hoped available this year, in regular and pocket eds.
- The Speaker p.iv "Books of the Week" (4 named)*; The Field (2 named)* -- *selection varies
- -05-19 Ath #4099 p608 "available in no fewer than six different styles" (6 named); Academy p487 (5 named) "Each 6-1/4 x 4."
- [84] The Sphere p148 (CSK) 5 named + forthcoming; chief editor Mr. Watts-Dunton
- [85] The Sphere 1906-06-30 p296 (CSK) Frowde's pocket edition;
2019-03-29 end here at #13 of 41 hits 1906