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Cambridge University Press Museum

Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Our museum was opened on our Shaftesbury Road site in Cambridge in 2011. It contains original and facsimile copies of items relating to publishing, printing, bibles, prayer books, Press homes in Cambridge, London and around the world and its people. Highlights include:
  • a folio edition of the King James Bible, printed in 1638 by University Printers Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel
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Cambridge University Press Museum
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2022Jun 13
Our museum was opened on our Shaftesbury Road site in Cambridge in 2011. It contains original and facsimile copies of items relating to publishing, printing, bibles, prayer books, Press homes in Cambridge, London and around the world and its people. Highlights include:
  • a folio edition of the King James Bible, printed in 1638 by University Printers Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel
  • a selection of John Baskerville's punches (steel rods with a letter carved backwards on the end, which were driven into a plate of softer metal leaving behind an impression of the letter)
the trowel which laid the first stone of the Pitt Building in 1831
  • a selection of programmes for the Wayzgoose, an entertainment given by the master printer to his workmen each year

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Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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