A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 3, New Worlds for Learning, 1873-1972

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Cambridge University Press, 1992 - Design - 536 pages
This volume completes the history of Cambridge University Press from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth. It examines the ways by which the Press launched itself as a London publisher in the 1870s, building its educational and academic lists. It also explores changes in the printing industry, revealing how the Press assumed a leading role in the typographical renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, and how it acquired an international reputation for quality after the Second World War. Also available: Volume 1: Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698 0-521-30801-1 Hardback $140.00 C Volume 2: Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872 0-521-30802-X $130.00C
 

Contents

A century of change I
1
Growth in publishing 18701900
69
The late nineteenthcentury Printing House
114
Markets across the world 18701914
139
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
183
ΙΟ Bibles 19161923
219
Walter Lewis and the typographical renaissance
230
The Roberts years
257
Kingsford and recovery
310
The American branch
335
Printing 19461963
345
A developing crisis
374
On the brink
410
Notes
429
Index
490
Copyright

America
295

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About the author (1992)

Dr David McKitterick is Fellow and Librarian, Trinity College, Cambridge.

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