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Article: A history of Cambridge University Press. Volume 2: scholarship and commerce, 1698-1872.(Review)
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- The Australian Library Journal
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- May 1, 2000
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A scholar's view
McKitterick, D A history of Cambridge University Press. Volume 2: scholarship and commerce, 1698-1872. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 512p A$225 hard ISBN 052130802X
DR DAVID McKITTERICK, LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, is the historian par excellence of Cambridge University Library and Cambridge University Press. His second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press covers the period 1698 to 1872. The first volume, Printing and the book trade, published in 1992, covered the period 1534 to 1692. The subtitle of the second volume, Scholarship and commerce, sees the Press move slowly and painfully (in ...