Clarendon Press

the printing office of Oxford University. As early as 1586 Oxford was authorized to publish, a favor not lightly bestowed when authorities were as much afraid of a printing press as they now are of contagion. The Earl of Clarendon gave Oxford the manuscript of his History of the Rebellion. The sales were sufficient to defray in part the cost of a new office building, called in his honor the Clarendon. The press became famous for the printing of Bibles and prayer books, as well as for miscellaneous publications. It is now in enlarged quarters and is still one of the great publishing concerns of England. It has a royal monopoly of the right to print the King James Bible, the common version, in Great Britain. Any office may print Bibles, but no other office may print an official Bible. See Oxford