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Cambridge University Press, publishers

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

 File

A Greek type for Cambridge University Press, 1956-1962

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/D1/6
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1956-1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

'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'

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3855
Scope and Contents

Includes notes and graphs representing numbers of Bibles printed.

Dates: 1854
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Series

A tally of types (1953), 1952-1953

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9812/A32
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series consists of papers, including correspondence, relating to Morison's published and unpublished compositions (except memoranda internal to the Monotype Corporation and The Times).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.

Dates: 1952-1953
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Business correspondence, 1831 - 1835

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/806
Scope and Contents

Airy's business correspondence, volume 2, including letters from Baldwin and Co., Children, Deighton, Dolland, Faraday, Hardy, Jones, Knight, Lowry, Mitchell, Ryder, Sheepshanks, Simms, Taylor, the University Press, Watkins and Woolgar, with an index to the correspondents at the end.

Dates: 1831 - 1835
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Cambridge edition of the works of D. H. Lawrence, 1979-1980

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/D1/19
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1979-1980
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Series

Cambridge University Press, 1925-1967

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9812/B2
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1925-1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Charitessi 1911

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7333
Scope and Contents Documents relating to Elizabeth Bridges's anonymous volume of poems, 'Charitessi 1911' [title transliterated from Greek], printed at the Cambridge University Press and published by Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge, 1912. The contents include a manuscript copy of the poems, a draft title page of the volume and notes to the printer, all in the hand of Francis Jenkinson; a printed proof of the volume bearing annotations in various hands, including corrections apparently in the hand of Elizabeth...
Dates: 1912-1952
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Correspondence with Cambridge University Press, 1969-1976

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9853/A4/10
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The correspondence consists chiefly of original incoming letters and typescript carbon copies of outgoing letters. Included are a few letters addressed to others at the Curwen Press Correspondence with customers relating to a particular job is in series B, but some customers' correspondence relating to more than one job is kept together here. Most correspondence relating to the management of the Curwen business is in series D, but some correspondence with directors, specifically John...
Dates: 1969-1976
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Correspondence with the University Press, Cambridge, 1962-1964

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9821/B/3
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1962-1964
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Series

Deeds relating to Cambridge University Press property, 1473 - 1905

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/FB Deeds 10.A-12.A
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Financial Board records comprise historic deeds of University property, an extensive subject file sequence, letter books and officers' working papers.

Dates: 1473 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Fear no more

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9858
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Series

Files relating to consultancies and societies

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9815/C
Scope and Contents The contents of this series are as follows: Box 43 = Limited Editions Club (to which Dreyfus was European consultant 1956-1977), including files on books designed by Dreyfus Box 44 = Limited Editions Club, further similar files Box 45 = Limited Editions Club, further similar files; with part of a transcript of an interview with Mrs. George Macy (1972) Box 46 = Double Crown Club, including menus and printed ephemera, some annotated by Dreyfus, with some correspondence between him and officers...
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Manuscript review invitation, 3 Mar. 1985

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9843/2/3
Scope and Contents

Letter from Cambridge University Press inviting Michael Baxandall to review a manuscript entitled 'The Judgement of Sense' by David Summers

Dates: 3 Mar. 1985
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for researchers using Cambridge University Library. Some items of personal correspondence have been closed.
 File

Miscellaneous designs for Cambridge University Press, 1985-1991

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/D2/23
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1985-1991
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Papers of John Peters

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9929
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1946-1964
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Two letters from staff of Cambridge University Press, 31 May 1991-19 Oct. 2007

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9987/7/1/48
Scope and Contents

The writers include Annie Cave.

Dates: 31 May 1991-19 Oct. 2007
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply to access. Users of the collection are required to complete a Researcher Undertaking Concerning Access under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to Archives Which Would Otherwise Be Closed. Two files are restricted on grounds of confidentiality, and a number of files are not available for research on account of the poor physical condition of the documents they contain.

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Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 14
Royal Greenwich Observatory (GBR/0180) 1
University Archives (GBR/0265) 1
 
Type
Archival Object 12
Collection 4
 
Subject
Printers 1
Printing 1