A History of Cambridge University Press 3 Volume Hardback Set

List of illustrations viii Preface xi Acknowledgements xvii List of abbreviations xix Note on currency xxiv Perspectives 1(21) The charter of 1534 22(16) University stationers, 1534--1583 38(20) Prejudice and the printing privilege 58(15) Thomas Thomas, `that puritan printer' 73(36) John Legate, printer by profession 109(27) Cantrell Legge and the University's common cause 136(24) A new beginning: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel 160(13) An uneasy partnership 173(21) Privileged books 194(23) Books for university teaching 217(18) Authors and printers 235(19) By due authority: licence and the title to print 254(11) Running the Printing House 265(15) Type, paper and other necessities 280(16) Civil war and inter-regnum 296(23) John Field and the opportunities of office 319(23) John Hayes and the limits of independence 342(21) Looking at a wider world 363(21) Conclusion 384(4) Appendix 1 Humble proposals concerning the printing of the Bible 388(1) Appendix 2 Proposals humbly presented to publick consideration ... 389(3) Notes 392(86) Index 478 List of illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xvii List of abbreviations xix Note on currency xxiii A world for books 1(20) Changes to books and the book trade 21(24) Founding a new press 45(31) Crownfield, authors and the book trade 76(37) Crownfield's later years 113(17) The mid-eighteenth-century printing house 130(21) Booksellers and authors 151(24) Bentham and Bibles 175(20) Baskerville and Bentham 195(8) An age of ferment 203(12) John Archdeacon 215(30) John Burges 245(14) Richard Watts and the beginning of stereotyping 259(26) Hellenism and John Smith 285(15) John Smith 300(28) John Parker: London publisher and Cambridge printer 328(24) Enterprise, authors and learning 352(10) Partnership 362(24) Macmillan 386(16) Opening in London 402(3) Appendix 405(2) Notes 407(77) Index 484 List of illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xvii List of abbreviations xix Note on currency xxi Formats and paper sizes xxii A century of change 1(33) 1873 34(23) Macmillan 57(12) Growth in publishing, 1870--1900 69(45) The late nineteenth-century Printing House 114(25) Markets across the world, 1870--1914 139(14) 1900--1916: a difficult period 153(30) The Encyclopaedia Britannica 183(19) 1916--1923: fresh beginnings 202(17) Bibles, 1916--1923 219(11) Walter Lewis and the typographical renaissance 230(27) The Roberts years 257(38) America 295(15) Kingsford and recovery 310(25) The American branch 335(10) Printing, 1946--1963 345(29) A developing crisis 374(36) On the brink 410(19) Notes 429(61) Index 490