Princeton University Press

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Princeton University Press
Founded1905; 119 years ago (1905)
FounderWhitney Darrow
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationPrinceton, New Jersey
DistributionIngram Publisher Services (Americas, Asia, Australia)
John Wiley & Sons (EMEA, India)
United Publishers Services (Japan)[1]
Publication typesBooks
Official websitepress.princeton.edu
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is located in Mercer County, New Jersey
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is located in New Jersey
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is located in the United States
Princeton University Press
Location41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey
Coordinates40°20′59.8″N 74°39′13.3″W / 40.349944°N 74.653694°W / 40.349944; -74.653694
Built1911
ArchitectErnest Flagg
Architectural styleCollegiate Gothic
Part ofPrinceton Historic District (ID75001143)
Added to NRHP27 June 1975

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large.

The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial support of Charles Scribner, as a printing press to serve the Princeton community in 1905.[2] Its distinctive building was constructed in 1911 on William Street in Princeton.[3] Its first book was a new 1912 edition of John Witherspoon's Lectures on Moral Philosophy.[4]

History

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Princeton University Press was founded in 1905 by a recent Princeton graduate, Whitney Darrow, with financial support from another Princetonian, Charles Scribner II. Darrow and Scribner purchased the equipment and assumed the operations of two already existing local publishers, that of the Princeton Alumni Weekly and the Princeton Press. The new press printed both local newspapers, university documents, The Daily Princetonian, and later added book publishing to its activities.[5] Beginning as a small, for-profit printer, Princeton University Press was reincorporated as a nonprofit in 1910.[6] Since 1911, the press has been headquartered in a purpose-built gothic-style building designed by Ernest Flagg. The design of press's building, which was named the Scribner Building in 1965, was inspired by the Plantin-Moretus Museum, a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Princeton University Press established a European office, in Woodstock, England, north of Oxford, in 1999, and opened an additional office, in Beijing, in early 2017.

Princeton University Press joined The Association of American Publishers trade organization in the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit which resulted in the removal of access to over 500,000 books from global readers.[7][8]

Pulitzers and other major awards

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Six books from Princeton University Press have won Pulitzer Prizes:

Books from Princeton University Press have also been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Nautilus Book Award, and the National Book Award.

Papers projects

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Multi-volume historical documents projects undertaken by the press include:

The Papers of Woodrow Wilson has been called "one of the great editorial achievements in all history."[15]

Bollingen Series

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Princeton University Press's Bollingen Series had its beginnings in the Bollingen Foundation, a 1943 project of Paul Mellon's Old Dominion Foundation. From 1945, the foundation had independent status, publishing and providing fellowships and grants in several areas of study, including archaeology, poetry, and psychology. The Bollingen Series was given to the university in 1969.

Other series

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Sciences

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Humanities

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  • Princeton Modern Greek Studies[16]

Biology

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  • Princeton Field Guides[17]

Selected titles

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "North America & International Ordering Information". Archived from the original on September 9, 2017. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
  2. ^ "Princeton University Press, Erected Through the Generousity [sic] of Charles Scribners, a New and Unique Adjunct to the University" (PDF). The New York Times. May 19, 1912.
  3. ^ Letich, Alexander (1978). A Princeton Companion. Princeton University Press. Archived from the original on October 19, 2017. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  4. ^ A History of Princeton University Press Archived May 2, 2019, at the Wayback Machine (2002)
  5. ^ Axtell, James (2006). The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12686-0.
  6. ^ "The New Princeton University Press". Publishers Weekly. 79 (22). New York: 2233–2234. June 3, 1911. Retrieved July 16, 2017.
  7. ^ https://help.archive.org/help/why-are-so-many-books-listed-as-borrow-unavailable-at-the-internet-archive/
  8. ^ https://publishers.org/who-we-are/our-members/
  9. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1957 Winners
  10. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1958 Winners
  11. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1961 Winners
  12. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1963 Winners
  13. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1965 Winners
  14. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1990 Winners
  15. ^ Cooper, John Milton (2011). Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. Random House. p. 736. ISBN 978-0-307-27790-9. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
  16. ^ Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies – Publications
  17. ^ Princeton Field Guides

Further reading

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  • Banks, Eric (April 1, 2005). "Book of Lists: Princeton University Press at 100". Artforum International.
  • A Century in Books: Princeton University Press, 1905–2005. Princeton University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-691-12292-2.
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