A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 1, Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698 (A History of Cambridge University Press, Series Number 1)

McKitterick, David

ISBN 10: 0521308011 / ISBN 13: 9780521308014

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 1992

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4to (25.5 cm), XXIV, 500 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj in book protecting film). This first volume of a comprehensive history of Cambridge University Press traces the Press's history from the beginnings of modern printing in the fifteenth century through to the establishment of a mechanized printing house in 1698. The detailed and scholarly account draws extensively upon new research, and emphasizes the relationship between printing and the book trade, as well as the relations between the Press and the University. The volume is illustrated throughout with reproductions of title pages, bindings, and other materials. This important work is an essential reference for anyone interested in the history of printing and publishing in England, as well as the history of the book more generally.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 1, Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698 (A History of Cambridge University Press, Series Number 1)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521308011
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521308014
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Printing
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Bookselling & publishing

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Synopsis

This is the first of three volumes concerning the history of the oldest press in the world, a history that extends from the sixteenth century to the present day. Although there was, briefly, a press at Cambridge in the early 1520s, the origins of the modern University Press spring from a charter granted to the University by Henry VIII in 1534, to provide for printers who would be able to work outside London and serve the University. In the event no book was printed until fifty years later, but from 1583 to the present the line of University Printers stretches in unbroken succession. Covering the period from the Reformation to the end of the seventeenth century, and drawing on a wealth of unpublished or unfamiliar materials, this volume explores the University's attitude to its Printers, the books they chose to print, and the circumstances in which they worked. For the first time, the early history of the Press is set in its context - of authors, University authorities, and readers, and its activities are fully related to the wider issues of the book trade in Britain and overseas. This book will be of interest to all involved in the history of politics, literature, the Church, education and social life in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.

Revue de presse

"...McKitterick's treatment is learned, lively, and authoritative."

"McKitterick's tale is a rich and fascinating one, but it will take a particular and patient historical appetite to move comfortably through this feast of materials about the Tudor/Stewart book trade....He is fascinating on the commercial detail of publishing and the need for constant adaption to changing circumstances and markets. The central chapters on privileges and licensing, authors and printers, and the physical necessities of paper, type, and personnel constitute in themselves a major contribution to the relatively new genre of 'book history.' The volume is meticulously edited and produced...." David H. Stam, Albion

"McKitterick's work is an extraordinarily rich and involving book which cuts across all sorts of historiographical categories. His sources range from university archives to auction catalogues, from literary criticism to economic history. He provides a model of institutional history as part of the wider history of culture and its production." Anita Guerrini, The Public Historian

"...likely to provide the definitive history of the press for generations to come....a major reference source, and also a starting point for all future studies of Cambridge printing." David Stoker, Publishing Research Quarterly