Cambridge University Press, 1696-1712 Tapa dura - 1966 - 1st Edición

Cambridge University Press, 1965-12-31. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Volumes I and II. Dust jackets are lightly rubbed along extremities. Nice cover. Clean pages throughout. Bindings are secure.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1966. Original publisher's blue cloth hardback, gilt lettering on red label spine, pictorial dustjacket, 4to: Vol. I. Organization and Policy of the Cambridge University Press: xvi, 432pp., 8 plates [16 ills.], tables [20, some folding], appendices [56 facsimiles of types/ornaments], notes, index. Vol. II. x, 382pp., index. Very fine set. "" Professor McKenzie's study of the Cambridge University Press in the time of Queen Anne gives a detailed picture of the Press in this period. As the first study in depth of a hand-press house, it provides an essential basis for much bibliographical and textual work in early printed books. The Press records on which the work is based form, in their detail and comprehensiveness, a unique collection of printing-house documentation. The entries in the Curator's Minute Book provide the fullest extant account of printing charges in these years: the Annual Press Accounts show clearly the kind of expenditure which a small… Leer más