A labour of love and, therefore, executed with loving care
and the nicest attention to every good technical detail is Mr. James Maclehose's Glasgow University Press, 1638-1931 (Glasgow University Press, 14s.). This famous Press never had, nor has it now, any financial assistance from the Univer- sity, though for a time in the eighteenth century the College gave it house-room, but on the appointment of the Faculty or the Senate various enterprising and careful craftsmen have been allowed to style themselves printers to the. University. At first there was nothing dilitinguished about the work of this Press, but it rose to European fame with the appointment of the brothers Foulis, Robert and James. The name of Duncan also is one of signal merit. To these succeeded in due time the family of Maclehose which has managed the Press now for sixty years, and it is one of them who has, with a full measure of historical, antiquarian and technical knowledge, told the story of its honourable career.
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