A no-holds-barred, year-long account by Vivian Ridler (Printer to the University, Oxford, 1958-78) of a crucial period at OUP in 1970-71, when it was beset by financial difficulties, union trouble, management infighting, and rapid technological change that would ultimately spell the end of a 400-year tradition of book manufacture at the Press. As a man of wide interests, he meets leading figures such as Philip Larkin, Michael Holroyd and Sir Geoffrey Keynes from the world of books, historians Alan Bullock and Robert Blake, typographers Brooke Crutchley and Berthold Wolpe, and heads of Oxford colleges and the Bodleian. Edited and introduced by Colin Ridler. Published by Perpetua Press, Oxford, 2022. Hardcover in red cloth with dust jacket and ribbon marker. Jacket has a few small creases, otherwise the book is like new.