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7-595: In 1891, Horace Hart (1840–1916) of the Clarendon Press (now Oxford University Press ) proposed an institute to provide a place providing relaxation and further education facilities for staff at the Press. He planned a gymnasium, library, and reading room, and to provide teaching of French, German, Greek, Latin, mathematics, and shorthand. The building was designed by H. W. Moore and built during 1892–93. It cost £5,000 to build. The Clarendon Institute now houses

14-565: A monograph on Charles, Earl Stanhope and the Oxford University Press . In 1900, he wrote Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press Oxford 1693–1794 . In 1893 he issued the first version of what became known as Hart's Rules as a single broadsheet page for in-house use. Although first issued internally at the Oxford University Press in 1893, these rules had their origins in 1864, when Hart

21-783: The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies , (an independent centre of the University of Oxford ), the British Inter-University China Centre , the Centre for Linguistics & Philology , and the Leopold Muller Memorial Library . In 2016, the building suffered a fire. This article about an Oxfordshire building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article relating to

28-523: The University of Oxford is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Horace Hart Horace Henry Hart (1840 – 9 October 1916) was an English printer and biographer. He was the author of Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers , first issued in 1893. Hart was born in Suffolk in 1840; his father was a shoemaker. He was sent to the printers Woodfall & Kinder in London at

35-459: The age of fourteen, and was apprenticed to the compositor’s trade two years later. He became the manager of Woodfall & Kinder by the age of twenty-six, but left to take over management of the London branch of the Edinburgh -based Ballantyne Press . He left Ballantyne Press in 1880, when he was appointed manager of the head office and main works of William Clowes & Sons , which was then

42-639: The biggest printing house in Britain. He left, however, after only three years at Clowes, when vacancy for Controller of the Oxford University Press (OUP) was advertised. Hart served as Printer to the University of Oxford and Controller of the University Press between 1883 and 1915. During that time, he convinced the Press to begin using wood-pulp paper, and also introduced collotype and printing by lithography . In 1896, he wrote

49-584: Was a member of the London Association of Correctors of the Press, working for Woodfall & Kinder. With a small group of fellow members from the same printing house, he drew up a list of "rules", which was constantly updated and revised during his career at three other printing houses. The last twenty years of Hart's life were plagued by bouts of depression and insomnia . He suffered his first nervous breakdown in 1887, followed by another in 1888. A final, severe breakdown led to his retirement from

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