Cambridge University Press 1584-1984
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Pbk ed., 3/30/2000
EAN 9780521664974, ISBN10: 0521664977
Paperback, 356 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
In 1984 the Press celebrated 400 years of continuous printing and publishing. This history, now published as a paperback, provides a readable introduction to that unique period, with a foreword by Gordon Johnson which comments on the continuing achievement of the Press. The story is of the development of the printing and publishing arm of the University of Cambridge, from the medieval system of resident stationers to the modern international printing and publishing house. The narrative is set within the development of the University; in the history of the book trade as a whole; and in the intellectual and political history of England.
Preface
Foreword Gordon Johnson
1. Introduction
2. Precursors
the stationers and Siberch
3. The Letters Patent of 1534
the Stationers' Company
4. The foundation of the Press
Thomas Thomas
5. Early printers
John Legate, Cantrell Legge, Buck and Daniel
6. The Commonwealth and Restoration
7. Bentley's 'public Press'
8. The eighteenth century
9. The nineteenth century I
10. The nineteenth century II
11. R. T. Wright and the Secretaryship
12. Waller and Roberts as Secretaries
Lewis as Printer
13. From 1945 to 1972
14. Recovery
1972–4
15. Charitable status recognised
16. From 1974 to 1984
17. Conclusion
Appendices.