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  • Cambridge University Press 1584-1984

    Cambridge University Press 1584-1984 by Black, Michael;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number Paperback
    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 30 March 2000

    • ISBN 9780521664974
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages356 pages
    • Size 229x152x20 mm
    • Weight 640 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 26 b/w illus.
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    Short description:

    The anniversary history of Cambridge University Press, 1584-1984, now published in paperback.

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    Long description:

    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.

    'This is a most handsome, well-written and well-researched account ... a distinguished and on the whole soberer one than the curiously disjointed history of its ancient rival.' Church Times

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    Table of Contents:

    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.

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