The Cambridge University Press was given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and published its first book in 1584, making it the longest-established printing house in the world. It is both an academic publishing house, and the printer for official documents for the University of Cambridge.
... The distress signal[?] "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS."
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