(OUP). It has evolved through multiple editions to become one of the most influential works of its kind.

Origins

The first edition of Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford appeared in 1893, as a privately circulated 24-page booklet, printed on small-format blue card and issued without charge to staff of the Oxford University Press. Its compiler, Horace Hart (1840-1916), had been appointed Controller of the Press in 1883, tasked with modernizing what was then a struggling and bifurcated institution

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