Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press, publishers
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
A Greek type for Cambridge University Press, 1956-1962
Drawings; photographs; memoranda; specimens; correspondence. The type was never made. Drawings include enlargements of some lower-case letters of Monotype series 169 with which the type was planned to be compatible. Drawings and specimens that are dated (except large ones) are interfiled with the correspondence. Correspondents include Cambridge University Press (Brooke Crutchley, John Dreyfus), Matthew Carter, G. S. Kirk, D. L. Page, Stephenson Blake & Co., J. D. Wilkinson.
'A letter to the members of the Senate on the Management of Cambridge Press during the Three Periods 1822 to 1829, 1830 to 1842, 1843 to 1850'
Includes notes and graphs representing numbers of Bibles printed.
A tally of types (1953), 1952-1953
This series consists of papers, including correspondence, relating to Morison's published and unpublished compositions (except memoranda internal to the Monotype Corporation and The Times). Also included are some items which, although not properly compositions of Morison, incorporate his work, whether in supervision, editing, or design.
Cambridge edition of the works of D. H. Lawrence, 1979-1980
Sketches and finished artwork for spine lettering 'The letters of D. H. Lawrence'; Cambridge University Press prospectus and list of 7 volumes of the edition; correspondence with Cambridge University Press.
Cambridge University Press, 1925-1967
Morison was Typographical Consultant to Cambridge University Press from 1925 until 1959. The letters to Morison up to 1941 are mostly typescript carbon copies; those from Morison are original typescripts or else manuscript letters in his hand. Some letters are to or from Morison's secretaries G. E. Alexander and M. J. Gasking, and Lewis's secretary J. M. Claydon.
Charitessi 1911
Correspondence with Cambridge University Press, 1969-1976
Correspondence with the University Press, Cambridge, 1962-1964
The correspondence is chiefly with John Dreyfus and A. E. Toller. With this are letters from C. & H. T. Evans (Bookbinders) Ltd. The University Press printed the text pages.
Fear no more
Typescript anthology of poems published by Cambridge University Press Fear no more. A book of poems for the present time by living English poets (Cambridge, 1940) Contributions by Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Spender, C.S. Lewis, Walter de la Mare. Printer's T/S, with MS corrections, as incorporated into 1st edition text. With offprint of printed titlepage and introduction. From the Walter de la Mare collection bequeathed by Phyllis T.M. Davies, 1998.
Files relating to consultancies and societies
Manuscript review invitation, 3 Mar. 1985
Letter from Cambridge University Press inviting Michael Baxandall to review a manuscript entitled 'The Judgement of Sense' by David Summers
Miscellaneous designs for Cambridge University Press, 1985-1991
Log of individual jobs; artwork, chiefly for dustwrappers; drawings and proofs for the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, and stationery for the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; proofs for various small jobs; correspondence. Correspondents include Cambridge University Press (John Trevitt and other designers); Nora Crook; Chris Scarre.
Papers of John Peters
Almost all these papers come from Peters's years at Cambridge University Press, with just a few examples of his earlier work for the Arts Council (1946-1949) and of his other activities including printing at the Vine Press, typeface design for the Monotype Corporation, letter-cutting, and calligraphy.
Two letters from staff of Cambridge University Press, 31 May 1991-19 Oct. 2007
The writers include Annie Cave.
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