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
[105] A condition of this appointment was that if the profits should
not reach £60 per annum, the university should make good the deficiency.
[106] The most important bible printed by Bentham was that of 1762, the
'standard' edition prepared by Dr T. Paris.
[107] Registry MS 33. 7. 7.
[108] Registry MS 33. 7. 4.
[109] Nichols, _Literary Anecdotes_, VIII, 451.
[110] MSS 5809. 38. The coat of arms to which Cole refers now hangs in
the University Press.
[111] Cambridge is depicted in rosy colours:
The Air is very healthful, and the Town plentifully supplied with
excellent Water.... Nor is it better supplied with Water, than it is
with other Necessaries of life. The purest Wine they receive by the Way
of _Lynn_.... Firing is cheap; Coals from Seven-pence to Nine-pence a
Bushel.
[112] Willis and Clark, III, 134. Gibbs's complete design is shown on
the title-page reproduced opposite p. 99.
[113] Registry MS 33. 7. 17.
[114] Reed, _Old English Letter Foundries_, p. 276 (quoted in Straus
and Dent, _John Baskerville_, p. 46).
[115] Straus and Dent, p. 50.
[116] Pollard, _Fine Books_, p. 300.
[117] Mr G. J. Gray has discovered that Baskerville lived in the Old
Radegund Manor House in Jesus Lane.
[118] Vol. II, pp. 458 ff.
[119] René La Butte, one of Bowyer's printers who came to Cambridge
with Walker and James, the founders of _The Cambridge Journal_, the
first Cambridge newspaper; through the influence of Conyers Middleton,
La Butte was established as a French teacher in Cambridge; Bentham
printed his _French Grammar_ (2nd ed.) in 1790.
[120] Archdeacon requests Mr Rivington to return it after examination,
as it will save him "much trouble in transcribing."
[121] Registry MS 33. 7. 20.
[122] Wakefield had published a Latin version of Gray's _Elegy_ in 1775
and a volume of Latin poems in 1776, but left the Church of England ten
years later. He was afterwards imprisoned for a libel on Bishop Watson.
[123] Cf. Cole's diary, 1 July, 1769: "Mr Gray's ode exceedingly
elegant and well set to music."
[124] Wordsworth, _Scholae Academicae_, p. 153. See also Stokes,
_Esquire Bedells_, pp. 116, 117.
[125] _Literary Anecdotes_, VIII, 414.
[126] Published in London, 1771.
[127] See _Cambridge Historical Register_, p. vii.
[128] _Collectanea_, vol. III, Part VII (_Oxford Historical Society_),
where a full account (by Horace Hart) of Stanhope's invention and of
his connection with the Clarendon Press will be found.
[129] Details of Wilson's bill may be seen in Registry MS 33. 7. 24,
and have been printed in Bowes, _Biographical Notes_, p. 327.
[130] Registry MS 33. 7. 26.
[131] The provision of refreshment at meetings of the Syndicate had
also been introduced by this time. A receipt for tea, coffee, muffins,
and toast provided during the years 1815 and 1816 is preserved at the
Press.
[132] In recognition of his services Hansard was presented by
the Syndics with "a handsome silver inkstand with an appropriate
inscription."
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