A History of Cambridge University Press
Volume 2. Scholarship and Commerce, 1698–1872
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- Author: David McKitterick, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: September 1998
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521308021
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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.
Read more- The second volume in a three-volume history of the world's oldest Press
- Covers a period of fundamental change in printing, publishing, and bookselling
- Sets the story of the Press in a wide social and economic context, particularly in discussing the London book trade
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"...magesterial....well written, in an accessible style, and simply packed full of information. Both academic and nonacademic historians in a number of fields will find useful information in this book." Anita Guerrini, The Public Historian
See more reviews"...this is one book that is almost worth its outrageous price. It is well written, in an accessible style, and simply packed full of information." The Public Historian
"David McKitterick's History...is bound to become a classic of its kind and serve as a model to all those who undertake to recount the story of any major publishing house." L&C
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- Date Published: September 1998
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521308021
- length: 535 pages
- dimensions: 255 x 182 x 40 mm
- weight: 1.575kg
- contains: 33 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Note on currency
1. A world for books
2. Changes to books and the book trade
3. Founding a new press
4. Crownfield, authors and the book trade
5. Crownfield's later years
6. The mid eighteenth-century printing house
7. Booksellers and authors
8. Bentham and Bibles
9. Baskerville and Bentham
10. An age of ferment
11. John Archdeacon
12. John Burges
13. Richard Watts and the beginning of stereotyping
14. Hellenism and John Smith
15. John Smith
16. John Parker: London publisher and Cambridge printer
17. Enterprise, authors and learning
18. Partnership
19. Macmillan
20. Opening in London
Appendix
Notes
Index.
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