Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- I JOHN SIBERCH
- II THE CHARTER–THOMAS THOMAS AND THE STATIONERS
- III FROM JOHN LEGATE TO ROGER DANIEL
- IV PRINTERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND RESTORATION
- V RICHARD BENTLEY–THE FIRST PRESS SYNDICATE
- VI EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PRINTERS
- VII THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY
- VIII THE LATEST AGE
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
I - JOHN SIBERCH
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- I JOHN SIBERCH
- II THE CHARTER–THOMAS THOMAS AND THE STATIONERS
- III FROM JOHN LEGATE TO ROGER DANIEL
- IV PRINTERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND RESTORATION
- V RICHARD BENTLEY–THE FIRST PRESS SYNDICATE
- VI EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PRINTERS
- VII THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY
- VIII THE LATEST AGE
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
Summary
Excursions into the realm of legend have long served as the traditional method of approach of the academic historian to his subject. True, the story of the foundation of the university of Cambridge by “one Cantaber, a Spaniard, about 370 years before Christ,” or, as Fisher described him in 1 506, “Cantaber, a king of the East Saxons, who had been educated at Athens,” is now definitely rejected as unhistorical; but it was only in 1914 that the name of Sigebert, King of the East Angles, was removed from the list of royal benefactors.
University printing, like the university itself, has its Apocrypha. Edmund Carter, writing in 1753, includes a short section on University Printers:
Printing had not been long used in England before it was brought hither, but by whom it is difficult to ascertain, tho' it may be supposed that Caxton, (who is said to be the first that brought this curious art into England, and was a Cambridgeshire Man, born at Caxton in that County, from which he takes his Name) might Erect a Press at Cambridge, as well as at Westminster, under the care of one of his Servants; (for it is Conjectured, he brought several from Germany with him). The first Book we find an Account of, that was Printed here, is a Piece of Rhetoric, by one Gull, de Saona, a Minorite; Printed at Cambridge 1478; given by Archbp. […]
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1921