This is the first volume in a new three-volume history of the University Press, which will eventually bring the story as far as modern times: the next volume (on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) is in preparation. The history is not only about University printers and their work--especially scholarly, schoolbook, Bible, prayer book and almanac publishing (the University Printers were England's largest suppliers of almanacs in the late seventeenth century)--but also about the rest of the seventeenth century book trade in Cambridge, London, continental Europe and North America.
This is the first volume in a new three-volume history of the University Press, which will eventually bring the story as far as modern times: the next...
This volume completes the history of Cambridge University Press from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth. It examines the ways by which the Press launched itself as a London publisher in the 1870s, building its educational and academic lists. It also explores changes in the printing industry, revealing how the Press assumed a leading role in the typographical renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, and how it acquired an international reputation for quality after the Second World War. Also available: Volume 1: Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698 0-521-30801-1 Hardback...
This volume completes the history of Cambridge University Press from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth. It examines the ways by which the Pr...