This second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press deals with a period of fundamental change in printing, publishing and bookselling. The purpose of this book is not only to chronicle the history of the Press, but also to set it in this context of change: to examine how the forces of commerce collided with the hopes or demands of scholarship and education, and how, in the end, one was made to exploit the other. It opens with the new arrangements made by the University for printing in Cambridge in the 1690s, and closes on the eve of the opening of new premises in London.
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This second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press deals with a period of fundamental changes in printing, publishing and bookselling. The purpose of this book is not only to chronicle the history of the Press, but also to set it in this context of change: to examine how the forces of commerce collided with the hopes or demands of scholarship and education, and how, in the end, one was made to exploit the other. It opens with the new arrangements made by the University for printing in Cambridge in the 1690s, and closes on the eve of the opening of new premises in London.
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At first sight, there seems to be little connection between two dates, separated by less than three years, one of them relating to the business of Parliament and the other to a decision by the University of Cambridge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
privileged presses, privileged books, new printing house, letter foundries, stereotype printing, stereotype plates, literary anecdotes, learned press, edition sizes, wove paper, term catalogues, long primer, great primer, printing types Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University Printer, Bible Society, Trinity College, Cambridge Chronicle, Trinity Street, Alexander Macmillan, Richard Bentley, Silver Street, Pitt Press, Duke of Somerset, King's College, John Taylor, Newton's Principia, Parker Society, University Librarian, Low Countries, Welsh Bible, Acta Eruditorum, Cambridge Bibles, Corpus Christi College, John Owen, Bentley's Horace, Cambridge Philosophical Society, Clare College, Conyers Middleton New!
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At first sight, there seems to be little connection between two dates, separated by less than three years, one of them relating to the business of Parliament and the other to a decision by the University of Cambridge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
privileged presses, privileged books, new printing house, letter foundries, stereotype printing, stereotype plates, literary anecdotes, learned press, edition sizes, wove paper, term catalogues, long primer, great primer, printing types Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University Printer, Bible Society, Trinity College, Cambridge Chronicle, Trinity Street, Alexander Macmillan, Richard Bentley, Silver Street, Pitt Press, Duke of Somerset, King's College, John Taylor, Newton's Principia, Parker Society, University Librarian, Low Countries, Welsh Bible, Acta Eruditorum, Cambridge Bibles, Corpus Christi College, John Owen, Bentley's Horace, Cambridge Philosophical Society, Clare College, Conyers Middleton New!
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- Cambridge University Library: Volume 2, The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A History by David McKitterick on 8 pages
- The 1928 Book of Common Prayer by Oxford University Press on 5 pages
- Early Victorian Cambridge (Academic Profession Series) by D. A. Winstanley in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The 1979 Book of Common Prayer, Personal Size Edition by Oxford University Press on page 225, page 390, and Index
- The Oxford University Press: An Informal History by Peter Sutcliffe in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Printing and Publishing for the University of Cambridge: Three Hundred Years of the Press Syndicate by Gordon Johnson on page 5, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Editing Piers Plowman: The Evolution of the Text (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Charlotte Brewer on page 87, and page 443
- Books and the Sciences in History by Marina Frasca-Spada on page 337, and Back Matter
- Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London by Patrick O'Brien on page 278
- Macmillan's Magazine, 1859-1907: No Flippancy or Abuse Allowed (The Nineteenth Century Series) by George J. Worth on page 17
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