Cambridge University Press

Public information about Cambridge University Press in our records is limited, and the available entries do not state its founding background or scale. Judging from the six titles in the collection, its publishing covers biography, philosophy and religion, and science and technology, as well as works on the history of science and intellectual history. Representative titles include Robert Louis Stevenson's Records of a Family of Engineers, James McCosh's The Scottish Philosophy: Biographical, Expository, Critical, from Hutcheson to Hamilton, the first volume of Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago, David Hume's On Public Credit, along with Darwin and Modern Science and Domesday Book and Beyond. Its authors include thinkers and scientific figures such as Hume and Wallace, reflecting a balance between classic works and scholarly editions, with an emphasis on texts of historical value.