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In 1984 the Press celebrated 400 years of continuous printing and publishing. This history, now published as a paperback, provides a readable introduction to that unique period, with a new foreword by Gordon Johnson which comments on the continuing achievement of the Press today. The story is of the development of the printing and publishing arm of the University of Cambridge, from the medieval system of resident stationers to the modern international printing and publishing house of today. The narrative is set within the development of the University; in the history of the book trade as a whole; and in the intellectual and political history of England.

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A VISITOR to a modern university city will expect to find in it a number of institutions, agencies and businesses concerned with books: several libraries of course; and one or more bookshops, which will stock both textbooks for students, standard reference works, and the advanced monographs which teachers need in order to keep abreast of research in their subject. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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