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History of the company/bank and archive description for Cambridge University Press
History of the
company/bank:		 Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the oldest printing and publishing house in the world and the oldest university press, having published continously as a printing and publishing business since the first Cambridge book was printed in 1584 , fifty years after the Press was founded by a royal charter granted to the University by Henry VIII. Authors before 1800 included John Milton, William Harvey and Isaac Newton. By the early 20th century the printing and publishing business was taken entirely into the control of the Press Syndicate, the Press´s governing body, which still exercises authority on behalf of the University.
Dedicated to academic excellence, CUP has stayed closer to strictly academic publishing than its rrival in Oxford. Although CUP once maintained a lower profile internationally than OUP, despite the success of pioneering publications such as Lord Acton´s original Cambridge Modern History, which the Syndics published from 1902, in modern times it has expanded and diversified and is now in a real sense a ´world publisher´ , attracting the best authors in the English language. Based in Cambridge, CUP also operates through its many branches and offices worldwide, and currently publishes at a rate of some 2,000 new publications annually.
In the years following World War II , CUP contributed several Presidents to the Publishers´ Association , including R.J.L. Kingsford, R.W. David and Colin Eccleshare, for many years in charge of the CUP sales and promotion office in London. Under the direction of (Sir) Geoffrey Cass, who joined CUP from Allen & Unwin in 1972, the Press was reformed radically and its operations expanded while its educational character was sustained.
Archive description The records of Cambridge University Press are deposited at the Cambridge University Library / Cambridge University Archives.

Address:

Cambrige University Library /
Cambridge University Archives
West Road
GB - Cambridge CB3 9DR
United Kingdom

Contact-Person:

Dr. Elizabeth Leedham-Green
Deputy Keeper, Cambridge University Archives

Tel.: +44 / 12 23 / 33 31 48 or 33 31 47
Fax: +44 / 12 23 / 33 31 60
e-mail: archives@ula.cam.ac.uk
URL: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ua/html

Press records deposited in the University Archives comprise:
Documents relating to stationers licensed by the University , 1534 - 1696 ; minutes of the Curators / Syndics of the Press, 1696 - 1902 ; accounts of printing for the university , 1696 - 1947 ; full business records of the press operating in partnership with C.J. Clay and his successors , 1852 - 1904 , and thereafter. The last category includes : Sales ledgers , 1829 - 1938 ; Bought ledgers , 1854 - 1938 ; Day Books , 1856 - 1947 ; Prizing Books , 1836 - 1954 ; Agents Journals , 1829 - 1864 ; Cut Books , 1868 - 1948 ; and incomplete series of correspondence, warehouse records, inventories of plant and machinery, miscellaneous accounts and balance books, compositors´ bill books, royalty ledgers and a variety of other records including substantial records of the production and marketing of Prayer Books and Bibles including very full documentation of the Revised Version.
There are random survivals of authors´ correspondence for the later decades of the 19th century and a complete (and indexed) set of authors´ correspondence received , 1913 - 1947.
CUP archives deposited in the University Archives extend to some 80 linear metres.
Further details may be found in some of the publications listed below.
Publications
  • McKitterick , David : A history of Cambridge University Press. Vol. 1 : Printing and the booktrade in Cambridge , 1534 - 1698. Cambridge University Press 1992. Vol. 2 : Scholarship and commerce , 1698 - 1872. Cambridge University Press 1998. [ One volume to follow ]
  • Black , M.H. : Cambridge University Press , 1584 - 1984. Cambridge University Press 1984.
  • McKenzie , D.F. : The Cambridge University Press , 1696 - 1712 : a bibliographical study. Cambridge University Press 1966.
  • Roberts , Sir Sydney : History of the Cambridge University Press , 1521 - 1921. Cambridge University Press 1921.
  • Leedham-Green , E.S.: University Press records in the University Archives : an account and a checklist , in: Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society VIII (1984), p. 398 - 418.
  • Leedham-Green , E.S. : A guide to the archives of the Cambridge University Press. Chadwyck-Healey 1973. A guide to accompany the Chadwyck-Healey microfilm of the Press records held at that time in the University Archives - 11 reels of , mainly, early material, a small percentage of the archive as now constituted.
Conditions of use The records deposited in the University Archives are fully accessible to anyone complying with the normal requirements for admission to Cambridge University Library, viz. evidence of identity and of being a bona fide resercher. A very few deposited items are of restricted access, and most modern records are still held by the Press.

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