Established as the University’s own printing house in 1696, although the University had been chartered to licence printers since 1534. Queen’s Printers since 1989. For further details see: David McKitterick, A history of Cambridge University Press, Vol. 1: Printing and the book trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698 (CUP, 1992); Vol. 2: Scholarship and commerce, 1698-1872 (CUP, 1998), M. H. Black, Cambridge University Press, 1584-1984 (CUP,1984), M. H. Black, A short history of Cambridge University Press, revised 2nd ed. (CUP, 2000) and the Press’s web site at https://www.cambridge.org/.
