Note 281 — Chapter VI · THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDRY.

Writing in 1714, Bagford boasted that the Sheldonian Theatre, Plantin’s Office at Antwerp, the King’s Office in Paris, the King of Spain’s Printing House, (Plantin’s Office at Leyden—since Elzevir’s—is a sorry shed), Janson’s in Amsterdam, and that of the Jews in the same city, were not to compare with the Oxford House (Harl. MS. 5901). The imprint, E Theatro Sheldoniano, was continued on Oxford books till 1743.