Excerpt from Biographical Notes on the University Printers From the Commencement of Printing in Cambridge to the Present Time
Ames, Typographical Antiquities, 174-0; and the second edition by Herbert, 3 vols, 1785 - 1790 (cited as ames-herbert).
Carter, Hist. Of the University of Cambridge, 1753 (taken almost entirely from the first edition of Ames).
Nichols, Literary Anecdotes and Literary Illustrations, 17 vols, 1812 - 1858.
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