Princeton University Press

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.

Princeton University Press
Founded1905 (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)
Publication typesBooks
Official websitepress.princeton.edu
Princeton University Press
Location41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey
Coordinates40°20′59.8″N 74°39′13.3″W
Built1911
ArchitectErnest Flagg
Architectural styleCollegiate Gothic
Part ofPrinceton Historic District (ID75001143)
Added to NRHP27 June 1975

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. Its distinctive building was constructed in 1911 on William Street in Princeton. Its first book was a new 1912 edition of John Witherspoon's Lectures on Moral Philosophy.

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