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Title: The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Willis, Robert, 1800-1875 Clark, John Willis, 1833-1910
Subjects: University of Cambridge Eton College
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) : The University Press
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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CHAPTER I. History of the Printing-House, commonly called the Pitt Press. The site of the University Printing-House, commonly called The Pitt Press, is bounded on the north by Silver Street, onthe east by Trumpington Street, on the south by Mill Lane, 1 (Coopers Annals, 1. 368. Dyer, Privileges of the University, I. 107.)VOL. III. 9 130 THE PRINTING-HOUSE. (CHAP. and on the west by the Black Lion Yard, and a dwelling-housenot the property of the University. Before narrating the history of the acquisition of this site,and of the erection of the existing buildings, we will notice, verybriefly, the different places in which printing is known to havebeen carried on previously ; confining ourselves strictly, as inother cases, to information about buildings, to the exclusion ofthat which concerns printers, or works produced by them1.
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Fig. i. House occupied by Mr Buck, as University Printer, reduced from a sketch preserved by the Rev. William Cole. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries printing wascarried on in the houses of the printers employed or appointedby the University. The earliest of these, John Siberch, who was 1 (Those interested in the history of the Cambridge Press should consult: BriefAnnals of the Cambridge University Press, in Scholce Academics, by C. Words-worth, M.A., 8vo. Cambridge, 1877; and Biographical Notes on CambridgePrinters from 1821 to the present day, by R. Bowes, published in the Camb. Antiq.Soc. Communications, 1884—85. I have to thank my friend Mr Bowes for most ofthe information here given.) I.) HISTORY OF THE PRINTING-HOUSE. 131 printing in 1521 and 1522, occupied a house opposite to S.Michaels Church, called The Royal Arms (Anna regia), nowpart of Gonville and Caius College1. Thomas Thomas (1582—88), and John Legate (1588—1607), resided in the parish ofS. Mary the G

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