The Syndics employ a staff of about 280 in Cambridge and of 110, under the management of Mr C. F. Clay, at their publishing office in Fetter Lane; their current catalogue contains the titles of some 2500 books bearing the imprimatur of the university.
Such, in brief summary, is the measure of the development of Cambridge printing since John Siberch set up his press at the sign of the Arma Regia in 1521.
APPENDIX
I. UNIVERSITY PRINTERS, 1521-1921
The names of those who are not known to have printed anything in Cambridge are underlined
| | 1521. | | John Siberch | He disappears after 1522 |
| | 1534. | | Nicholas Speryng
Garrett Godfrey
Segar Nicholson |
| | 1539. | | Nicholas Pilgrim |
| | 1540. | | Richard Noke |
| | 1546. | | Peter Sheres |
| | 1577. | | John Kingston |
| | 1583. | | Thomas Thomas, M.A. | | d. 1588 |
| | 1588. | | John Legate | | d. 1620 |
| | ? | | John Porter (before 1593) |
| | 1606. | | Cantrell Legge | | d. 1625 |
| | ? | | Thomas Brooke, M.A. (before 1608) | | Resigned (?) 1625 |
| | 1622. | | Leonard Greene | | d. 1630 |
| | 1625. | | Thomas Buck, M.A. | | At least till 1668 |
| | | | John Buck, M.A. | | At least till 1668 |
| | 1630. | | Francis Buck | | Resigned 1632 |
| | 1632. | | Roger Daniel | | Patent cancelled 1650 |
| | 1650. | | John Legate (the younger) | | Patent cancelled 1655 |
| | 1655. | | John Field | | d. 1668 |
| | 1669. | | Matthew Whinn |
| | 1669. | | John Hayes | | d. 1705 |
| | 1680. | | John Peck, M.A. |
| | 1682. | | Hugh Martin, M.A. |
| | 1683. | | James Jackson, M.D. |
| | 1683. | | Jonathan Pindar |
| | 1693. | | H. Jenkes |
| | 1697. | | Jonathan Pindar | | At least till 1730 |
| | 1705. | | Cornelius Crownfield | | Pensioned 1740 |
| | 1730. | | William Fenner
Mary Fenner
Thomas James
John James | | Lease relinquished by Mrs Fenner 1738 |
| | 1740. | | Joseph Bentham | | Resigned 1766 |
| | 1758. | | John Baskerville | | Nothing after 1763 |
| | 1766. | | John Archdeacon | | d. 1795 |
| | 1793. | | John Burges | | d. 1802 |
| | 1802. | | John Deighton | | Resigned 1802 |
| | 1802. | | Richard Watts | | Resigned 1809 |
| | 1804. | | Andrew Wilson | | (?) 1811 | |
| | 1809. | | John Smith | | Pensioned 1836 |
| | 1836. | | John William Parker | | Resigned 1854 |
| | 1854. | | George Seeley | | Retired 1856 |
| | 1854. | | Charles John Clay, M.A. | | Retired 1895 |
| | 1882. | John Clay, M.A. | | d. 1916 |
| | 1886. | Charles Felix Clay, M.A. | | Retired 1904 |
| | 1916. | | James Bennet Peace, M.A. |
II. CAMBRIDGE BOOKS, 1521-1750
The list of books from 1521 to 1650 is reprinted, with some additions, from that compiled by Mr F. Jenkinson and included in Bowes's Catalogue of Cambridge Books