Note 266 — Chapter VI · THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDRY.

Athenæ Oxonienses. London, 1691–2. 2 vols., fol., ii, 604. Wood, in speaking of Mill’s Greek Testament, begun in 1681, says that the first sheets were begun at his Lordship’s cost, “at his Lordship’s printing house, near the Theater” (Fasti Oxon., 3rd ed., ii, 381). This was probably the hired house occupied by the University press prior to its removal to the Theatre, concerning the site of which Hearne remarks (Reliq., i, 254), “One part of the wall, being a sort of bastion, is now to be seen, just as we enter into the Theater-yard, at the west corner of the north side of the Schools, viz., where the late printing-house of Bp. Fell stood.” Moxon, in 1683, recognised the Bishop’s “ardent affections to promote Typographie” in England, by dedicating to him the second volume of his Mechanick Exercises, the first practical work on printing written by an Englishman.