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The Press Museum

The Press Museum

The rich history of Cambridge University Press is preserved in the Press Archive held at Cambridge University Library.

A selection of items is also on display at our Shaftesbury Road site in Cambridge.

Our museum contains original and facsimile copies of items relating to publishing and printing, machines and people, bibles and prayer books.

Highlights

The Buck and Daniel bible

An edition of the King James Bible, printed in 1638 by University Printers Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, which set new standards for an accurate text.

Baskerville's punches

A selection of John Baskerville's punches (steel rods with a letter carved backwards on the end, which were driven into a plate of softer metal leaving behind an impression of the letter).

Pitt Building trowel

The trowel which laid the first stone of the Pitt Building (home of printing and publishing in Cambridge for over a hundred years) in 1831.

Order of Mass booklet, 1953

Examples of our printing for royal occasions.

Photograph of colleagues at play

Photographs of our people at social occasions.

Wayzgoose programmes

A selection of programmes for the Wayzgoose, an annual entertainment for printers given by the master printer.

Machinery and tools used by printers and engravers

Machinery and tools used by printers and engravers.

Document from the Press Archive

Copies of documents from the Press Archive which bring a particular moment or person to life.

Item from the Press museum

Examples of employee notices and information.

The greatest treasure in the library poster

The story of the eleventh edition Encyclopaedia Britannica being taken to Antarctica by Sir Ernest Shackleton on board the Endurance and Aurora.

The greatest treasure in the library

Email: archivesandheritage@cambridge.org