| Title |
Historical materials |
| Reference |
Pr.B.26 |
| Covering Dates |
1861–1995 |
| Extent and Medium |
1 box |
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| Content and context |
Mostly extracted from material filed at the Press as being of historical interest. Most received from CUP in June 1983. |
| University/Pr.B.26 contains: |
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(1)
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Maclehose report on Press prices and profits. Papers comprise:- draft manuscript copy; typescript with annotations by W. Chawner, and copies of correspondence. There are some annotations by Brooke Crutchley.
Creator: Maclehose, Robert.
1 folder. |
1903 |
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(2)
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Correspondence and papers relating to the book printers' scale agreement.
Creator: Peace, James Bennet.
1 folder. |
1917–1922 |
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(3)
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Correspondence and papers relating to Bible and prayer book printing; British and Foreign Bible Society, SPCK.
Creator: Peace, James Bennet.
1 folder. |
1916–1917 |
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(4)
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Correspondence and papers relating to Bibles and prayer books.
Creator: Peace, James Bennet.
1 folder. |
1915–1922 |
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(5)
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Printed annual statements of University accounts, receipts and payments.
Creator: Vice-Chancellor.
5 bifolia. |
1849–1853 |
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(6)
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Two letters to John Clay relating to the proposed amalgamation of Wilson's business with the Press.
Creator: Wilson, Edwin; Waller, A.R.
4 sheets. |
7 Jan. 1913–1 Feb. 1913 |
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(7)
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Correspondence relating to scrap copper, required for the war effort, and possible alternative use of plaster of Paris for press furniture.
Creator: Peace, James Bennet; Clay, Charles Felix.
8 sheets. |
28 Jan. 1918–21 June 1918 |
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(8)
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Completed form relating to employment of Press lithographers and process engravers.
Creator: Board of Trade.
1 sheet. |
1918 |
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(9)
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Letter and circular entitled 'Industry and Invasion'.
Creator: Ministry of Information.
2 items. |
26 Sept. 1940 |
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(10)
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Directions, notes, circulars, relating to air-raid precautions.
1 folder. |
1939–1941 |
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(11)
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Notices, reports, lists concerning War allowances for employees.
1 folder. |
1941 |
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(12)
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Working regulations concerning time lost during air-raid warnings, including Walter Lewis's notice for the Press.
3 items in folder. |
1939–1940 |
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(13)
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Record of impact of the war on Press personnel; marriages and deaths of employees; bombs falling on Cambridge, etc., with two copies of printed account of the Activities of the Press, 1940-2 by Walter Lewis, March 1943.
Creator: Willers, G.E.
3 items in folder. |
1939–1945 |
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(14)
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Instructions to candidates as to the procedure to be followed at examinations if an air-raid occurs during, or shortly before, a session.
Creator: Registry.
1 sheet. |
Mar. 1941 |
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(15)
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Copy of letters from John Johnson, Printer to the University of Oxford, to Mr Bisset of the British Federation of Master Printers, relating to Product Code Book.
4 sheets. |
9 Aug. 1940–12 Aug. 1940 |
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(16)
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Roll of Honour; order of commemoration service; speech of the Vice-Chancellor; menu for dinner given on 17 Apr. 1920 by Syndics of the Press in honour of Press employees who served in H.M. Forces during the War.
8 items. |
1916–1920 |
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(17)
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Comparative data of working and pressing at per ream.
Creator: University Printer.
4 items. |
1887–1915 |
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(18)
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Compositors' wage increase appeals to J.B. Peace, University Printer, and expressions of thanks.
Creator: University Press Compositors Chapel.
5 items. |
1917–1918 |
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(19)
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Letters to John Miller from the Father of the Oxford University Press Chapel and from the London Society of Compositors concerning scales of wages.
2 items. |
7 Jan. 1920 |
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(20)
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Dinner menus.
Creator: University Press Compositors Chapel.
2 items. |
1931–1938 |
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(21)
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Copies of the scale of prices from the bill book of J. Hall and Sons. A note [? by Brooke Crutchley] states that the original is 'now in C[ambridge] U[niversity] L[ibrary]'. None of the Bill Books received from the Press, however, covers these dates.
3 sheets. |
1836–1838 |
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(22)
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Rule books. Comprise three copies; one of them is interleaved and annotated.
Creator: Pitt Press Pension Society.
3 booklets. |
1909 |
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(23)
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Report on the Pitt Press General Sick Fund; with accompanying report of the committee on the fund drawing attention to its findings, 8 Dec. 1910.
2 items. |
24 Nov. 1910–8 Dec. 1910 |
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(24)
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Tables calculating speed of composition, etc. used in estimating costs.
Creator: University Printer.
1 folder. |
1927 |
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(25)
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Report to Senate on proposed purchase of numbers 24 and 26 Silver Street.
Creator: Press Syndicate.
1 sheet. |
7 Oct. 1882 |
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(26)
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Estimate for structural alterations to Pitt Press building; with corollary of 20 Jan. 1938, approved by the Syndics, 28 Jan. 1938.
Creator: Stanley Hall and Easton and Robertson.
2 items. |
Apr. 1937-Jan. 1938 |
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(27)
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Report of Working Party on the Printing Industry into 'methods of reducing the cost of short-run printing, particularly of scientific literature'.
Creator: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
1 booklet. |
Dec. 1958 |
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(28)
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Correspondence relating to increases in printing charges.
Creator: Crutchley, Brooke.
1 folder. |
1952–1957 |
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(29)
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Publicity material and blank license forms relating to stereo process; with covering letter.
Creator: Dalziel Foundry Ltd.
4 items. |
18 Mar. 1904 |
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(30)
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Assorted notices and correspondence about costs of carriage and railway rates.
14 items in envelope. |
1893–1921 |
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(31)
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Correspondence and memoranda on apprenticeships, including letter from Margaret Neville Keynes.
Creator: Juvenile Employment Registry.
9 items. |
23 Feb. 1911–1 May 1912 |
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(32)
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Proof English translation of address made on presenting Walter Lewis for an Honorary M.A.
Creator: Orator.
1 sheet. |
1925 |
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(33)
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Paper entitled 'The Rise and Fall of the Pica Thumpers', given to Book Printers Section meeting. Produced as appendix to minutes of Book Printers Section meeting on 10 Feb. 1948; with typescript notes on the same by G.E. Willers.
Creator: Howe, Ellic.
7 sheets. |
Feb. 1948 |
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(34)
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Photostat copy, made ? 1960s, of article 'Typography at the Cambridge University Press, c. 1700' from the Penrose Annual.
Creator: Johnson, A.F.
24 sheets. |
1938 |
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(35)
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Handlist of printing trade documents, 1795-1901, in the possession of the University Press, Cambridge (1936).
Creator: University Printer.
1 booklet. |
1936 |
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(36)
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Notice on communications to Printer. The notice reads:- 'It is respectfully requested that communications on the current business of the University Press be addressed to "The University Printer" or to "Mr Sibley", and not to any other person by name'. It includes a note [? by J. Clay] which reads:- 'A similar notice might with advantage be sent out -- Proofs would then get booked -- perhaps in Office'.
Creator: University Printer.
1 sheet. |
Oct.. 1843 |
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(37)
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Letters to A.R. Waller assessing the needs of the Press.
Creator: Clay, John.
3 sheets. |
6 Oct. 1913 |
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(38)
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Article, 'Early print in East Anglia', from the British and Colonial Printer, 8 June 1951; with catalogue of an exhibition on printing, devised and arranged for the Aldeburgh Festival.
Creator: Watson, S.F.
2 items. |
1951 |
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(39)
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Typescript copies of a postcard from Holme suggesting the conversion of the Pitt Press into a small college.
Creator: Holme, R.F.
2 sheets. |
12 Mar. 1938 |
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(40)
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Letter to John Clay concerning their New Design Double Demy Dawson Wharfedale, with quotation for same. Letter is annotated that an order was sent on 28 Mar. 1908.
Creator: W.H. Lockett and Company, engineers and electricians to printers and stationers.
2 sheets. |
25 Mar. 1908 |
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(41)
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Testimonials to C.J. Clay on his retirement.
Creator: Cambridge University Press staff.
1 bifolium. |
16 Jan. 1895 |
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(42)
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Reports of Press Syndicate on C.J. Clay's residence requirement. Comprise two copies of each of two reports.
Creator: Press Syndicate.
4 bifolia. |
30 Oct. 1861–23 Nov. 1861 |
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(43)
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Reports of Sub-Committees of the Committee on Developments in the Printing Industry on i) typewriter development and ii) punched paper tape.
Creator: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
2 items. |
1959 |
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(44)
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Article 'Design', Jan. 1970 and letter and notes concerning Kelmscott Press paper.
Creator: Crutchley, Brooke.
4 items. |
1958–1977 |
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(45)
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Correspondence and papers concerning the incentive scheme.
Creator: Crutchley, Brooke.
68 items. |
1947–1950 |
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(46)
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Press cuttings relating to Press staff.
8 items. |
8 Feb. 1935–25 May 1972 |
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(47)
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Press cuttings relating to the new Printing House Building.
10 items. |
1961–1966 |
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(48)
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Press cuttings relating to computer installation.
3 items. |
1966–1975 |
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(49)
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Press cuttings concerning the payment by results incentive scheme.
30 items. |
1949–1956 |
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(50)
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Press cuttings concerning Siberch celebrations. The celebrations marked the 450th anniversary of the first printing in Cambridge by John Siberch.
16 items. |
1971 |
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(51)
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Copies of Patents 911.222 and 997.717, both for Arthur Herbert Gray, for methods of producing flexible printing plates.
Creator: H.M. Patent Office.
4 items. |
1962–1965 |
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(52)
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Specifications and tender for L and M Letterpress Perfector; with related letters.
Creator: Linotype and Machinery Ltd.
1 file. |
5 Oct. 1938–12 Oct. 1939 |
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(53)
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Assorted staff notices concerning, among other things, mid-day break, incentive scheme, sick pay.
10 items. |
1968–1986 |
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(54)
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Papers relating to A tally of types (CUP, 1953). Comprise:- (a) memorandum from Brooke Crutchley to L.A. Gray (cc. G.E. Willers) relating to intended reissue, seeking information on history of types (including Monotype) used, 13 October 1961; (b) note by Willers on early use of Monotype series by the Press, 7 Feb. 1950; (c) note of use of sundry types by L.A. Gray, 2 Nov. 1961; (d) letter from C.R. Macauley of Lanston Monotype Corporation to J.B. Peace concerning American Series 22, 24 May 1919).
7 sheets. |
1919–1961 |
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(55)
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Letter to John Clay with effusive thanks for prayer book of large and clear type.
Creator: Gladstone, William Ewart.
1 sheet mounted on card. |
6 July 1896 |
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(56)
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Dick David remembered by his friends (L.A. Davies; Cambridge, 1994). This memorial volume has contributions by Tony Davies, Victor de Waal, Ruth David, Eustace Roskill, Donald Bousfield, George Rylands, Noel Annan, Peter Clothier, Geoffrey David, James Rylands, Francis McCall and Richard Coulson, Michael Black, Geoffrey Cass, John Boon, Stanley Wells, James McGibbon, Alan Hodgkin, Marni Hodgkin, Faith Raven, Max Walters, Clive Jermy, Arthur Chater, Len Margetts, Brian Pippard and Eliza Forder, and includes a checklist of his publications, 1935-91.
Creator: Davies, L.A.
1 volume. |
1994 |
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(57)
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Arthur Gray, a memoir (CUP: Cambridge, 1972). This memoir was 'written with the help of family and friends'. Arthur Gray (1916-1972) was works manager from 1946.
Creator: Crutchley, Brooke.
1 booklet. |
1972 |
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(58)
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Publicity brochure entitled Cambridge University Press today.
1 item. |
1995 |
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