Archives
What do the Archives contain?
- The Stationers' Company Registers or Entry Books of Copies 1554-1842 (the copyright registers, 1842-1911 are deposited at The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office) at Kew).
- The Court Books, 1602 to the present day.
- Membership Records, 1555 to the present day.
- Legal and Official Records, from 1557.
- Records relating to Bequests, Charities and Pensions from 1593 to 1929
- Records Relating to Property Owned by the Company from 1674.
- English Stock Records 1603-1961
- The Company's Financial Records, from 1605. Recent records are subject to access restrictions.
- Miscellaneous documents, printed records, family papers.
A complete microfilm edition of the Company's Archive, 1554-1920, in 115 reels was prepared by Robin Myers and published by Chadwyck-Healey Ltd (now part of ProQuest Information and Learning) in 1986. The microfilm edition enables researchers to consult most of the Company's Archive at a distance, but the originals can be inspected in certain circumstances. A list of libraries in Britain and overseas that hold sets of the microfilm follows:-
Great Britain
Aberdeen University Library
Cambridge University Library
Dublin, Trinity College Library
Leeds, The Brotherton Library
London, The British Library
St Bride's Printing Library
Oxford, The Bodleian Library
Scotland, The National Library
Wales, The National Library
U.S.A. & Canada
Auburn University
Baylor University
Cinncinati University
Columbia University, New York
Delaware University Library
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
Georgia State University
Harvard University Library
Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
Kansas State University
Kent State University
Louisiana State University
Pennsylvania State University
Purdue University, Indianapolis
Texas Technical University
Vassar College
Virginia, University of
Other
Australia: University of Newcastle, NSW; Monash University, Vic; University of Sydney, NSW
New Zealand, Wellington
Japan, at least 6 libraries
Visiting and use of the Library and Archives
Only by written appointment with the: Hon. Librarian - Mondays Hon., Archivist - Wednesdays.
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