Oxford University Press Stereotype Printing Plate

  

Type metal printing plate, wood backed, for the.. An Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops Who have had their Education in the most Ancient and the Famous University of Oxford, From The fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, A. 1500, to the author's death in November 1695. Representing The Birth, Fortune, Preferment and Death of all those Authors and Prelates, the great Accidents of their Lives, and the Fate and Character of their Writings.

To which are added, The Fasti, or Annals, of the said University. Measures: "Approximately 8.5" x 5" x 1". Produced for the reissue of the two-volume set in 1840. Included items: Printing plate, Burgundy resin folding stand. Not included: Printed page (see the last image, provided as an example of original print/publication).