The Evolution of Cambridge Publishing by Roberts, S C - 1956

Cambridge University Press, 1956. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:

Cambridge, 1956. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Previous owner name. Small chip to jacket. .

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth gilt, DW, small 4to., ix, 67 pages, 15 illustrations. A near very good copy in a sadly spotted DW with mild edgewear, a sunned spine and one stain at the front foredge which continues for several early pages. Inserted is a three page extract with three plates by Roberts entitled "A Note on Cambridge Printing", from Gutenberg Festschrift 1925. The DW now in archival mylar.

Cambridge: University Press, 1956.. First edition. Blue decorated cloth. Very slight foxing, minor corner bump, VG in DJ with minor edge tears, foxing, wear, G. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1956.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956 4to (25.5 cm), IX, 67 pp, 14 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly foxed and stained, small tear at the head, tipped in bookplate). From the blurb: "The Master of Pembroke's Sandars Lectures for 1954 are here given permanent form. The first lecture, on 'The Bentley Revival', gives new information about the Press's first experiment in Publishing, and the general increase of activity under Bentley's direction in the early eighteenth Century. Recently discovered minutes and accounts of the period are illustrated, and their contents analysed: and Mr Roberts gives an entertaining account of the progress of the Suidas 'Lexicon' through the press. 'After The Royal Commission' shows the beginnings in nineteenth-century Cambridge of a publishing firm as it is understood to-day ; the development of a London publishing-house, the beginnings of advertising, the growth of a 'back list'. 'The… Read More

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1956. Cloth,gilt and coloured arms on front board, 4to, 26 cm,. 66, [1] pp, [14] pp of plates, facs. From the blurb: "The Master of Pembroke's Sandars Lectures for 1954 are here given permanent form. The first lecture, on The Bentley Revival, gives new information about the Press's first experiment in Publishing, and the general increase of activity under Bentley's direction in the early eighteenth Century. Recently discovered minutes and accounts of the period are illustrated, and their contents analysed: and Mr Roberts gives an entertaining account of the progress of the Suidas Lexicon through the press. After The Royal Commission shows the beginnings in nineteenth-century Cambridge of a publishing firm as it is understood to-day ; the development of a London publishing-house, the beginnings of advertising, the growth of a 'back list'. The Twentieth Century begins with the publication of the 11th edition of the… Read More

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1956. Cloth,gilt and coloured arms on front board, 4to, 26 cm,. 66, [1] pp, [14] pp of plates, facs. From the blurb: "The Master of Pembroke's Sandars Lectures for 1954 are here given permanent form. The first lecture, on The Bentley Revival, gives new information about the Press's first experiment in Publishing, and the general increase of activity under Bentley's direction in the early eighteenth Century. Recently discovered minutes and accounts of the period are illustrated, and their contents analysed: and Mr Roberts gives an entertaining account of the progress of the Suidas Lexicon through the press. After The Royal Commission shows the beginnings in nineteenth-century Cambridge of a publishing firm as it is understood to-day ; the development of a London publishing-house, the beginnings of advertising, the growth of a 'back list'. The Twentieth Century begins with the publication of the 11th edition of the… Read More

Cambridge University Press, 1956. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, a very good tightly bound copy with an unmarked text and in a well preserved but age-toned dust jacket. Illustrated, ix + 67pp.

Hassell Street Press, 2021-09-09. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Hardback. 1954. The Sandars Lectures 1954. 76pp 16 plates 4to Cambridge 1956. Ex lib. VG in DW .