A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 2, Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872

A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 2, Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872

by David McKitterick
ISBN-10:
052130802X
ISBN-13:
9780521308021
Pub. Date:
08/27/1998
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
052130802X
ISBN-13:
9780521308021
Pub. Date:
08/27/1998
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 2, Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872

A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 2, Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872

by David McKitterick

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521308021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 08/27/1998
Series: A History of Cambridge University Press , #2
Pages: 535
Product dimensions: 7.17(w) x 10.04(h) x 1.57(d)

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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