The first edition of Hart’s Rules was a booklet made up of a single 24-page signature. Produced in April 1893, it was 137 × 88 mm (5 3/8 × 3 3/8 inches), sewn, with a cover of thin green-blue card—dimensions and binding that were to remain largely unchanged for the next decade. It incorporating with minor corrections the information proffered on the broadsheet produced the previous month.

Like the broadsheet, the booklet was intended solely for Clarendon Press employees, reiterating that the contents were ‘Rules for Compositors and Readers, which are to be observed in all cases where no special instructions are given’.

The edition in the OUP museum was presented to the Press in 1953 by Mr Philip Bennett, Horace Hart’s private secretary. For his account of Hart’s working day click here.

• Front and back cover (click to see pop-up image, 51k)
• Full-title (click to see pop-up image, 37k)
• Pages 2 and 3 (marks used in the correcting of proofs), 4 and 5 (contents), 6 and 7, 8 and 9, 10 and 11, 12 and 13, 14 and 15, 16 and 17, 18 and 19, 20 and 21, 22 and 23, 24 and back cover
  
  

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