The thirty-sixth edition of Hart’s Rules was published in 1952 by Geoffrey Cumberledge, and printed by Charles Batey in Oxford; it was 143 pages in length. Unlike preceding versions, which constituted a new edition with each impression—even twice a year—the thirty-sixth edition was to go through four reprints (1954, 1957, 1961, 1962) under a single edition number. (Only two of these—the 1952 and 1957—involved significant changes.)

This edition was identical to the preceding edition in format and binding apart from one minor adjustment on the 1961 spine: here, the text was reversed to read from top to bottom, rather than the old-fashioned ‘continental’ style used since the first printed spine in 1904. To see the difference between the 1957 and 1961 spines click here (14k).

The 1952 edition in the OUP museum (shown here) was annotated to provide copy to create the 1957 edition—though not all of the changes marked appeared in that edition.

• 1952 front cover (click to see pop-up image, 60k)
• 1952 full-title (click to see pop-up image, 30k
• 1954 front cover (click to see pop-up image, 45k)
• 1954 full-title (click to see pop-up image, 30k)
• 1957 front cover (click to see pop-up image, 61k)
• 1961 front cover (click to see pop-up image, 49k)

To the later issues Professor Robinson Ellis and Mr. H. Stuart Jones have contributed two appendices, containing instructions for the Division of Words in printing Latin and Greek. A third appendix has been added, on the authority of Sir J. A. H. Murray, showing how to print some Proper Names in the Possessive Case.

H.H.

Mar., 1904.

 

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