A History of the Cambridge University Press, 1521-1921Roberts, S. C. (Sydney Castle)
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A History of the Cambridge University Press, 1521-1921
Roberts, S. C. (Sydney Castle)
Cambridge University Press -- Bibliography; Cambridge University Press -- History
[61] Legate's only benefaction to the university seems to have been the
gift of _Annotations upon the Bible_ (a two-volume work printed by him
in London in 1651) to the University Library.
[62] Field and Hills, another Republican who was his partner.
[63] Arber, _Stat. Reg._ III, 27.
[64] Registry MS 33. 6. 22.
[65] A copy was brought to Samuel Pepys in quires by his bookbinder
on 27 May, 1667. "But," writes Pepys, "it is like to be so big that I
shall not use it."
[66] Registry MS 33. 6. 27.
[67] Probably William Dillingham, Master of Emmanuel College.
[68] Registry MS 33. 2. 106.
[69] Registry MS 33. 1. 26.
[70] _Steinschneider Festschrift_, p. 90, brought to my notice by Mr
Israel Abrahams.
[71] Registry MS 33. 1. 32.
[72] Massachusetts Historical Society, 1878, quoted in Bowes, _Biog.
Notes_, p. 309.
[73] In 1699 _The Tablet of Cebes_ was printed by Crownfield for
Pindar, who held one of the printer's patents until 1730, receiving a
salary of £5 per annum. See p. 95.
[74] Monk, _Life of Bentley_, p. 56.
[75] This was paid back by 10 Dec. 1697 (_Press Accounts_, 1697).
[76] "52 Alphabetts, or Setts of Printing Letters, Call'd Types" for
the University Press were brought to Harwich in the Bridgeman Sloope
from Brill on 28 January, 1698 (_Press Accounts_, 1698).
[77] See Carter, 469; Willis and Clark, III, 133; Bowes, _Biog. Notes_,
314. Some of the items of expenditure upon the new Press have been
preserved in remarkable detail. Robert Smith's account of 12 October,
1696, for carpenter's work, consists of about 80 items.
[78] This book is, most unfortunately, not now to be found. The
extracts, therefore, are necessarily taken from Wordsworth, _Scholae
Academicae_ (Appendix IX).
[79] This Dˢ Penny had been placed second in the _Ordo Senioritatis_ of
1697-98 and was paid 9ͩ per sheet (i.e. one sixth of the compositor's
allowance) for his revision of the proofs.
[80] Copy-money was the money granted in lieu of copies of books, to
which the workmen were originally entitled.
[81] Hone, _Everyday Book_, Ii, 1133.
[82] _Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi_,
1787, I, xciii ff.
[83] The Knightbridge professorship, founded in 1683, was originally
described as that of "Moral Theology or Casuisticall Divinity."
[84] Registry MSS 33. 6. 31, 32.
[85] Bowes, _C. A. S. Proc._ VI, 362 and _Biographical Notes_ (Errata).
[86] Crownfield had also purchased a press from Owen in 1703 for the
sum of £11 16_s_ 6_d_ (_Press Accounts_, 1702-3).
[87] _Correspondence of Bentley_, ed. Wordsworth, I. 245.
[88] Registry MS 33. 6. 33.
[89] Registry MS 33. 6. 35.
[90] Bowes, _C. A. S. Proc._ VI, 364.
[91] Registry MSS 33. 6. 36, 37.
[92] The university and town entertained Queen Anne on 16 April, 1705,
when the conduits ran with wine and Isaac Newton was knighted (Cooper,
IV, 71, 72).
[93] This number seems to have been increased to "3 or 400" (Registry
MS 33. 6. 83).
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