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History of Cambridge University Press: Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872, Vol. 2 »

Book cover image of History of Cambridge University Press: Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872, Vol. 2 by David McKitterick

Authors: David McKitterick
ISBN-13: 9780521308021, ISBN-10: 052130802X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: David McKitterick

Book Synopsis

The second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press covering the 1690s to
1872.

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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