Editing Cambridge University Press (section)

== Print and typographic heritage ==

=== People ===
* [[John Siberch]], in 1521 the first printer in Cambridge
* [[John Baskerville]] (1707–1775), the official printer; his Cambridge edition of the [[King James Bible]] (1763) was considered his masterpiece
* [[Bruce Rogers (typographer)|Bruce Rogers]] (1870–1957), appointed 'printing expert' at the press for two years in 1917
* [[Stanley Morison]] (1889–1967), typographical advisor both to the press and to the Monotype Corporation from 1925 to 1954 and, from 1929, also to ''[[The Times]]'' newspaper
* [[John Dreyfus]] (1918–2002), joined the press in 1939 and became Assistant Printer in 1949
* [[David Kindersley]] (1915–1995), designed a special typeface, ''Meliorissimo'', for the press's buildings, stationery, signs and vans
* [[John Peters (typographer)|John Peters]] (1917–1989), designer of Angelus (Monotype, 1954, a [[point (typography)|4 {{fraction|1|2}} point]] typeface for Bible composition at Cambridge University Press), Castellar (an open caps face, Monotype, 1954? or 1957), Fleet Titling (1967, Monotype Series 632), and Traveller (1964, a Monotype font done for the British Railways
*[[Gordon Johnson (historian)|Gordon Johnson]] (1943–), chair of the Syndicate governing Cambridge University Press from 1981 to 2010. [[Sandars Reader in Bibliography]] in 2009–2010 and lectured on "From printer to publisher: Cambridge University Press transformed, 1950 to 2010."<ref>Johnson, Gordon. 1999. ''Printing and Publishing for the University: Three Hundred Years of the Press Syndicate.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</ref>

=== Publications ===
* 1584: the press's first publication was a book, ''Two Treatises of the Lord His Holie Supper''.<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" /> 
* 1591: the first Cambridge Bible was printed by John Legate
* 1629: Cambridge folio edition of the [[King James Bible]] was printed by Thomas and John Buck.<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" />
* 1633: ''The Temple'' by [[George Herbert]] (1593–1633) includes "Easter Wings". The poem's words and lines are arranged on the page to create a visual image of its subject. 
* 1713: the second edition of [[Isaac Newton]]'s ''[[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' was published by the press.
* 1763: [[John Baskerville|John Baskerville's]] folio Bible, considered a masterpiece, uses his innovations with type, paper, ink, and the printing process.
* 1895: the first title by a [[Nobel Laureate]] was published: [[J. J. Thomson]]'s ''Elements of the Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism''.