A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 3, New Worlds for Learning, 1873-1972This 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 |
America | 295 |
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