Oxford and its university.
Contributors: Thomas Nelson & Sons
Series: Nelsons' pictorial guide-books; Nelsons' oil colour views
Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London; Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: University of Oxford; Oxford (England) -- Description and travel.; Oxford (England) -- Guidebooks.
Genres: Guidebooks.
Other titles: City of Oxford
Notes: Date taken from description of current construction of a new wing in the New Museum on p. 39 within the text.

At head of t.p.: "Nelsons' Pictorial Guide-books.".

At head of cover title: "Nelsons' Oil Colour Views".

Text is printed in blue.

T.p. printed within blue rule border.

Plates are separately printed on heavy paper and loosely inserted in the middle of the publication.  All are with captions.

Plates are unsigned "Nelson prints", i.e. pen-and-ink lithographs printed in a brownish purple ink with the ground and sky coloured by two wood blocks. For more on this process, see Gascoigne, Bamber. How to identify prints, 1986, p. 30-31.

MASS copy: In original white glazed paper wrappers printed in green and gold.  Upper cover lithographed in green and gold with titling and wide decorative border.  Lower cover lithographed in gold with publisher's advertisements for "T. Nelson and Sons' Series of Views, &c.".