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A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 1, Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698 (A History of Cambridge University Press)
A History of Cambridge University Press Volume 1 Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge 15341698 - A History of Cambridge University Press Author:David McKitterick This is the first volume in a new three-volume history of the University Press, which will eventually bring the story as far as modern times: the next volume (on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) is in preparation. The history is not only about University printers and their work--especially scholarly, schoolbook, Bible, prayer book and al... more »manac publishing (the University Printers were England's largest suppliers of almanacs in the late seventeenth century)--but also about the rest of the seventeenth century book trade in Cambridge, London, continental Europe and North America.« less