| ABBATTISTA | Abbattista, Guido, 'The Business of Paternoster Row: Towards a Publishing History of the 'Universal History' (1736-65)', in Publishing History XVII (1985) pp.5-50 |
| ABBEY | Abbey, J.R., Unspecified |
| ABBEY1 | Abbey, J.R., Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 (London, 1952) |
| ABBEY2 | Abbey, J.R., Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 (London, 1953) |
| ABBEY3 | Abbey, J.R., Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 (London, 1956-7) |
| ALDEN | Alden, John, 'Pills and publishing: some notes on the English book trade, 1660-1715', The Library, 5 ser., 7 (1952), pp.21-37 |
| ALEXANDER | Advertisements, mostly from General Advertiser and Public Advertiser |
| ALEXANDERD | Alexander, David, ' "Alone worth treble the price": Illustrations in Eighteenth century English Magazines', in A Millennium of the Book: Production, Design and Illustration in Manuscript and Print before 1800, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1994), pp.107-133. |
| ALSTON | Alston, Robin, 'The British Book Trade, 1701 to 1800', in Publishing History 16 (1984), pp.43-86 |
| ANGUS | Angus, Alan, Thomas Bewick's Apprentices, History of the Book Trade in the North (Newcastle, 1993) |
| ARCHER | Archer, Caroline; Walker, Sue & Reynolds, Linda, 'Typography in Nineteenth Century Children's Readers: The Otley Collection', inLight on the Book Trade, eds. McKay, Barry; Hinks, John & Bell, Maureen (New Castle & London, 2004), pp119-129 |
| ART JOURNAL | Art Journal |
| BAGFORD | Bagford's Collection for a History of Writing. BL 175 Sloane 1085 folio 82 (C.1683-7) |
| BAGSHAW | Bagshaw, History, Gazetteer & Directory of Shropshire (Sheffield, 1851) |
| BAILEY | Bailey, William, Northern Directory for 1781 (Warrington, 1781)
British Directory for 1784 (Warrington, 1784)
Bristol & Bath Directory (Bristol, 1787)
Western and Midland Directory (Birmingham, 1783) |
| BAINES | Baines, Edward, History, Directory & Gazetteer of the County of York, vols. 1 & 2 (Leeds, 1822 & 1823) |
| BARNARD | Collins, Francis (ed.), Registers of the Freemen of the City of York vol.2 1559-1759 (Durham, 1900) |
| BARNARD/BELL | Barnard, John & Bell, Maureen, 'The Inventory of Henry Bynneman (1583)', in Publishing History 29 (1991), pp.5-46 |
| BARNARDJ | Barnard, John, 'Some Features of the Stationers' Company and its Stock in 1676/7', in Publishing History 36 (1994), pp.5-38 |
| BARNES | Barnes, F. and Hobbs, J.L., Handlist of Newspapers Published in Cumberland, Westmorland and North Lancashire (Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, Tract Series XIV, 1951) |
| BARR | Barr, Bernard, 'More First Editions of William Mason', in Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society Vol X Part 3 (1993), pp.278-316 |
| BARRY | Barry, Jonathan, Methodism and the Press in Bristol, 1737-1775 (Wesley Historical Society, Bristol Branch, Bulletin 64) |
| BATEMAN | Bateman, Donald, 'A Bristol chapel in the nineteenth century', Journal of the Printing Historical Society, 24 (1995), pp.107-21 |
| BBMAN | The Bookbinders' Manual (London: William Strange, 1832), pp.115-24 & [127-30] |
| BBS1 | Birmingham Bibliographical Society, Working Papers for an Historical Directory of the West Midlands Book Trade to 1850. No.1: to 1779 (Birmingham, 1975) |
| BBS2 | Birmingham Bibliographical Society, Working Papers for an Historical Directory of the West Midlands Book Trade to 1850. No.2: 1780-1789 (Birmingham, 1976) |
| BBS3 | Birmingham Bibliographical Society, Working Papers for an Historical Directory of the West Midlands Book Trade to 1850. No.3: 1790-1799 (Birmingham, 1977) |
| BBS3+ | Birmingham Bibliographical Society, Working Papers for an Historical Directory of the West Midlands Book Trade to 1850. No.3: 1780-1789 (Birmingham, 1976) Appendix to BBS2 |
| BBS4 | Birmingham Bibliographical Society, Working Papers for an Historical Directory of the West Midlands Book Trade to 1850. No.4: 1800-1809 (Birmingham, 1978) |
| BBS5 | Birmingham Bibliographical Society, Working Papers for an Historical Directory of the West Midlands Book Trade to 1850. No.5: 1810-1819 (Birmingham, 1981) |
| BBS6 | Birmingham Bibliographical Society, Working Papers for an Historical Directory of the West Midlands Book Trade to 1850. No.6: 1820-1829 (Birmingham, 1983) |
| BBS7 | Birmingham Bibliographical Society, Working Papers for an Historical Directory of the West Midlands Book Trade to 1850. No.7: 1830-1839 (Birmingham, 1987) |
| BBS8 | Birmingham Bibliographical Society. Information from directories regarding the West Midlands Book Trade, 1840-1850. |
| BBS9 | Addenda to BBS1 - BBS8 |
| BD | Biography Database 1680-1830 CD-ROM (Newcastle upon Tyne: Avero Publications, 1995) |
| Beales | Nancy Beales |
| BED-CRO | Bedfordshire County Record Office, registrations under the Unlawful Societies Act 1799 (QDPT) |
| BELANGER | Belanger, Terry, 'A Directory of the London Book Trade 1766', in Publishing History I (1977), pp7-48. |
| BELL | Bell, Maureen, 'A Dictionary of Women in the London Book Trade, 1540-1730', MLS dissertation, Loughborough University of Technology (1983) |
| BELLM2 | Bell, Maureen, 'Hannah Allen and the Development of a Puritan Publishing Business, 1646-51', in Publishing History 26 (1989), pp5-66 |
| BELLM3 | Bell, Maureen, 'Mary Westwood, Quaker Publisher', in Publishing History 23 (1988), pp5-66 |
| BELLM4 | Bell, Maureen, ''Her Usual Practices': The Late Career of Elizabeth Calvert, 1664-75', in Publishing History 35 (1994), pp5-64 |
| BELLM5 | Bell, Maureen, 'Elizabeth Calvert and the 'Confederates'', in Publishing History 32 (1992), pp5-49 |
| BELLMAUREEN | Bell, Maureen, 'Sturdy Rogues and Vagabonds: Restoration Control of Pedlars and Hawkers', in The Mighty Engine: The Printing Press and its Impact, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 2000). pp89-96. |
| BENNETT | Bennett, J.D., Leicestershire Portraits: Forty biographical sketches of Leicestershire characters from medieval times to the twentieth century (Leicester, 1988) |
| BER-CRO | Berkshire Record Office, Quarter Session Records: printing press cerificates after the Suppression of Seditious Societies Act 1799 (Q/RZ-12) and Abingdon Borough Records: printing press certificates (A/JQU) |
| BHSUS1 | Turner, Thomas, Diary 1754-1765, ed. David Vaisey (Oxford, 1985) |
| BHSUS10 | Sussex Record Society, Marriage Licences, Archdeaconry of Lewes 1586-1642, vol.I |
| BHSUS11 | Sussex Agricultural Express |
| BHSUS12 | East Sussex Census 1851 |
| BHSUS13 | Pigot, James & Slater, Isaac, Commercial Directory and
London & Provincial New Commercial Directory, 1839 for Kent, Surrey & Sussex |
| BHSUS14 | Cobby, Edward, Brighthelmstone Directory, 1799 & 1800 |
| BHSUS15 | Baxter's New Brighton Directory, 1822 |
| BHSUS16 | Boore, T.H., Brighton Annual Directory, 1822 |
| BHSUS17 | Baxter's Stranger in Brighton Directory, 1824 |
| BHSUS18 | Swaysland, T.H. and Gill, J., A New Directory for Brighton, 1832 |
| BHSUS19 | Brighton Directory, 1833 |
| BHSUS2 | Sussex Record Society, xxvii, Sussex Apprentices and Masters 1710-1752 |
| BHSUS20 | Kelly & Co., Post Office Brighton Directory, 1846 |
| BHSUS21 | Kelly's Brighton and Hove Directory, 1845 |
| BHSUS22 | Folthorp's The Court Guide & General Directory of Brighton, 1848 |
| BHSUS23 | Eastbourne Census 1841 |
| BHSUS24 | East Sussex Census 1831 |
| BHSUS25 | Sussex Record Society, vol. Xxv |
| BHSUS26 | Sussex Record Society, vol. Xxvi |
| BHSUS27 | Lewes Town Book |
| BHSUS28 | Baxter Block Book |
| BHSUS29 | Hastings Census 1821 |
| BHSUS3 | Sussex Record Society, Chichester Council Records |
| BHSUS30 | Gibson, Strickland, Abstracts from Wills and Testamentary Documents of Binders, Printers and Stationers of Oxford 1493-1638 (1907) |
| BHSUS31 | Sussex information from imprints from booksellers' catalogues, various |
| BHSUS32 | Sussex information from Universal British Directory (1792) |
| BHSUS33 | PIGOT 1828 |
| BHSUS34 | Horsham Museum Archives |
| BHSUS35 | Sussex County Magazine |
| BHSUS36 | Parry's Coast of Sussex (1833) |
| BHSUS37 | Sussex Record Society, vol. Xxix |
| BHSUS38 | Kelly's Sussex Directory, 1845 |
| BHSUS39 | Sussex information from British Universal Directory (1792) ??same as BHSUS-32?? |
| BHSUS4 | Walker, Thomas, History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (1835), title page |
| BHSUS40 | Sussex Weekly Advertiser 1758- |
| BHSUS41 | Sussex Record Society, vol. lxi Maps |
| BHSUS42 | Kingsley, D., Printed Maps of Sussex 1575-1900 |
| BHSUS43 | Hastings Directory (1852) |
| BHSUS44 | Sussex Militia List 1803 |
| BHSUS5 | Trans PBN Publications, 1831 Census, St John Sub-Castro, Lewes |
| BHSUS6 | PBN Publications, Population 1811 and Jury List 1832, St Michael, Lewes |
| BHSUS7 | Victoria County History, Sussex, vol. Ii |
| BHSUS8 | Victoria County History, Sussex, vol. Iv |
| BHSUS9 | Information for Sussex from DNB |
| BHSUSvar | Various Sussex sources |
| BICKNELL | Bicknell, Peter, The Picturesque Scenery of the Lake District, 1752-1855 (Winchester, 1990) |
| BL/APP | Society of Genealogists, Lists of Masters and Apprentices, c.1711-1762 |
| BL/BLIB | Yorkshire information from British Library catalogue |
| BL/BOOK | BL/BOOK |
| BL/Cen | BL/Cen |
| BL/CENSUS | BL/CENSUS |
| BL/CWAAS | Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Archaeological & Antiquarian Society |
| BL/DRO | Internet catalogue of the Durham Record Office |
| BL/FM | Freemasons |
| BL/FREE | Freemen |
| BL/GUILD | Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society |
| BL/H | BL/H |
| BL/HARL | Harleian Society volumes |
| BL/HG | Halifax Guardian 1843 |
| BL/HJ | Halifax Journal 1801-1811 |
| BL/ID | BL/ID |
| BL/Ins | BL/Ins |
| BL/Int | Leeds Intelligencer 1755-1802 |
| BL/JHT | BL/JHT |
| BL/LG | Yorkshire information from London Gazette |
| BL/LIBEL | BL/LIBEL |
| BL/LL | Leeds Subscription Library |
| BL/MCL | BL/MCL |
| BL/Merc | Leeds Mercury 1718-1751 |
| BL/MIL | Militia/Muster Rolls |
| BL/News | BL/News |
| BL/NSL | Leeds New Subscription Library |
| BL/OATH | References to the Protestation Oath of 1723 |
| BL/PB | Poll Books |
| BL/PM | Information on Primitive Methodists |
| BL/PP | BL/PP |
| BL/PR | Monumental inscriptions from Leeds Parish Church, Mill Hill Chapel (Leeds), St John's Church (Leeds) and Halifax Parish Church |
| BL/PRO | Information from PRO Catalogue searches in Class list probate |
| BL/QS | BL/QS |
| BL/RLY | BL/RLY |
| BL/SAL | BL/SAL |
| BL/SR | Surrey Record Series |
| BL/TD | Yorkshire information from trade directories:
 Bailey 1781 & 1784
 Baines 1822
 Holden 1809/11
 Leeds 1798, 1800, 1807, 1809, 1817
 PIGOT 1814, 1816, 1818, 1830
 Universal British Directory
Bradford 1850 |
| BL/UJ | The Union Journal (Halifax) 1759-1760 |
| BL/VENN | Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses up to 1750 |
| BL/Watch1835 | The Watchman [a Methodist Newspaper] |
| BL/WH | BL/WH |
| BL/WILL | Wills/prob |
| BL/WS | Wakefield Star & West Riding Advertiser 1803-1811 |
| BL/YC | York Chronicle & Weekly Advertiser 1783-1785 |
| BLACK | Black, Michael, Cambridge University Press 1584-1984 (Cambridge: CUP, 2000) |
| BLACKJ | Black, Jeremy, '' Calculated Upon a Very Extensive and Useful Plan': The English Provincial Press in the Eighteenth Century', in Six Centuries of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain, ed. Isaac, Peter (Winchester, 1990), pp61-72. |
| BLACKJ2 | Black, Jeremy, 'Politicisation and the Press in Hanoverian England', in Serials and Their Readers 1620-1914, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1993), pp63-81 |
| BLACKJ3 | Black, Jeremy, 'Fresh Light on Ministerial Patronage of Eighteenth Century pamphlets', in Publishing History 19 (1986), pp53-58 |
| BLACKJ4 | Black, Jeremy, 'Conducting the Gazette: Comments by the Printer in 1757', in Publishing History 21 (1987), pp93-8. |
| BLACKJ5 | Black, Jeremy, 'Continuity and Change and the British Press 1750-1833' in Publishing History 36 (1994), pp39-85 |
| BLAGG | Blagg, Thomas M., Newark as a publishing town (Newark, 1898) |
| BLAYNEYP | Blayney, Peter, 'William Cecil and the Stationers', in The Stationers' Company and the Book Trade 1550-1990 eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1997), pp11-34. |
| BOALCH | Boalch, D.H., Prints and Paintings of British Farm Livestock 1780-1910 (Harpenden, 1958) |
| BOASE | Boase, Frederic, Modern English Biography, vol. V (1965), col.309 |
| BOOK HISTORY | Book History ed. E.Greenspan and J.Rose. Pennsylvania State University Press. |
| BOWMAN | Bowman, J H., Greek Printing Types in Britain in the Nineteenth Century: A Catalogue (Oxford, 1992). |
| BPB1774 | Poll Book…Election for the City and County of Bristol 1774 |
| BPB1784 | Poll Book…Election for the City and County of Bristol 1784 |
| BRADFORD | Ibbetson, James, Ibbetson's General & Classified Directory: Bradford 1850.
|
| Bromley House | A Directory of Names Associated with Bromley House Library 1816 to 1916 at: http://www.ashbracken.com/BrHouse-HTML/BrH1816-Index.html |
| BROWN | Brown, Philip A.H., London Publishers and Printers c. 1800-1870 (London, 1982) |
| BROWNE85 | Browne (Arthur) & Son &c., Bristol Directory (Brisol, 1785) |
| BROWNELL | Brownell, W., Sheffield General Directory (Sheffield, 1817) |
| BRS84 | British Record Society, vol. 84 (1969), Index to Wills in Record Office, Chelmsford III |
| BRYAN | Bryan, Michael, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, ed. G.C. Williamson (London, 1903-4) |
| BSUS-12 | East Sussex Census 1851 |
| BSUS-13 | PIGOT 1839 for Kent, Surrey and Sussex |
| BTNW1 | Liverpool Bibliographical Society, The Book Trade in Liverpool to 1805: a directory (Liverpool, Book Trade in the North West Project, Occ. Pub. 1, 1981) |
| BTNW2 | Liverpool Bibliographical Society, The Book Trade in Liverpool from 1806 to 1850: a directory (Liverpool, Book Trade in the North West Project, Occ. Pub. 2, 1987) |
| BTNW3 | Liverpool Bibliographical Society, The Book Trade in Cheshire to 1850: a directory (Liverpool, Book Trade in the North West Project, Occ. Pub. 3, 1992) |
| BTNWX | Liverpool Bibliographical Society, Unspecified (Liverpool, Book Trade in the North West Project) |
| BUC-CRO | Buckinghamshire Record Office, notices of printing presses under the Unlawful Societies Act 1799 (Q/RSp) |
| BURCH | Burch, R.M., Colour Printing and Colour Printers, 2nd ed. (London, 1910; reprd. Edinburgh, 1983) |
| C&E1816 | Manuscript list of paper mills, 8 October 1816 (Customs & Excise) |
| CAFFYN | Caffyn, John, Sussex Schools in the 18th Century (Lewes, 1998) |
| CASS | Cass, Eddie, 'The G.R. Axon Collection of Broadsides', in Printing and the Book in Manchester 1700-1850, eds. Cass, Eddie & Garratt, Morris (Otley, 2001), pp165-172 |
| Cem | Data from Sheffield General Cemetery Records (probably all journeymen) |
| CENSUS | Census with year |
| CHALONER SMITH | Chaloner Smith, John, British Mezzotint Portraits, 4 vols. (London, 1884) |
| CHAMBERSD | Chambers, David, 'Private Printing in London in the Nineteenth Century', in The London Book Trade, eds. Myers, Robin; Harris, Michael & Mandelbrote, Giles (London, 2003), pp145-175 |
| CHANTER | Chanter, J.R., Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple (Barnstaple, 1886) |
| CHAPBOOKS | Chapbooks, Children's Book Society (Hodsdon, 1996) |
| CHATTO | CHATTO |
| CHETHAM | Evans, D.R., 'A Preliminary History of the Booktrade in Manchester to 1851', unpublished (Manchester, Chetham's Library) |
| CHILTON | Chilton, C.W., Early Hull Printers and Booksellers (Hull, 1982) |
| CHREG | Regester [sic] of license [sic – for chapmen] for the year from 24 June 1697 (Public Record Office, Kew A03/370, 371) |
| CHRI | CHRI |
| CHT | Timperley, C.H., Encyclopaedia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote (London, 1842; reprd. New York, 1977) |
| CHUBB | Chubb, Thomas, The Printed Maps in the Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1927) |
| CHUBB-STEPHEN | 'A descriptive list of the printed maps of Norfolk 1574-1916 by T. Chubb and a descriptive list of Norwich plans 1541-1914 by Geo A. Stephen', (Norwich, 1928). |
| CI | CI |
| CLARK | Records of children of London families placed at nurse outside London |
| CLOUGH | Clough, E.A., A short-title catalogue arranged geographically of books printed and distributed . . . In the English provincial towns and in Scotland and Ireland up to . . . 1700 (London, 1969) |
| Coghlan | The Correspondence of James Peter Coghlan (1731-1800) (Catholic Record Society, 2007) |
| COLCLOUGH | Colclough, Stephen, 'Recovering the Reader: Commonplace Books and Diaries as Sources of Reading Experience', in Publishing History 44 (1998), pp5-37 |
| COLCLOUGH2 | Colclough, Stephen, 'Documents & Sources: 'A Catalogue of My Books': The Library of John Dawson (1692-1765), 'Exciseman and staymaker', c1739': John Dawson & His Catalogue', in Publishing History 47 (2000), pp45-66 |
| COMBE | Combe, T. & Son, The Leicester Directory (Leicester, 1827) |
| COOK42 | Cook, T., The Leicestershire Almanack, Directory & Advertiser 1842 (Leicester, 1842) and A Guide to Leicester containing a Directory . . . 1843 (Leicester, 1843) |
| COOPERA | Cooper, Audrey, 'George Nicholson and his Cambrian Traveller's Guide' in The Mighty Engine: The Printing Press and its Impact, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 2000) pp43-56. |
| COOPERM | Cooper, Margaret, 'A Snuff Box from the King of Prussia: The Remarkable Career of Benjamin Maund, Bookseller, Druggist and Botanist', in The Reach of Print: Making, Selling and Using Books, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1998), pp51-64. |
| COOPERM2 | Cooper, Margaret, 'Influential and Mysterious: The Career of Septimus Prowett: Bookseller, Publisher and Picture Dealer', in Light on the Book Trade, eds. McKay, Barry; Hinks, John & Bell, Maureen (New Castle & London, 2004) pp107-118. |
| COPAC | http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/ |
| COPSEY | Miscellaneous information about Suffolk book trade |
| COPSEY/HALLAM | Copsey, Tony, Book Distribution and Printing in Suffolk 1534-1850, with a Checklist of Books Printed in the County compiled by Tony Copsey and Henry Hallam (Ipswich, 1994) |
| COPSEY2 | Copsey, Tony, Suffolk Authors to 1800 |
| CP | Charles, Parry (Aberystwyth), Late seventeenth-century proposals/prospectuses and advertisements for patent medicines |
| CRANE | Crane, R.S. and F.B. Kaye, A Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1620-1800 (Chapel Hill, 1927) |
| CRIST | Crist, Timothy, 'Government Control of the Press After the Expiration of the Printing Act in 1679', in Publishing History V (1979), pp49-77 |
| CROMPTON | Crompton, J. Leicestershire Lollards, in Trans. Leic. Arch. Soc. v44, pp11-44 |
| DAPB 74 | Westminster poll books 1774 |
| DAPB 88 | Westminster poll books 1788 |
| DAVIES | Davies, Robert, A Memoir of the York Press (London, 1868; reprd. York, 1988) |
| DAVIESPP | Davies, Alun Eirug, 'Paper-mills and paper-makers in Wales 1700-1900', National Library of Wales Journal 15.1 (1967), pp.1-30 |
| DAY | Day, John C. The Circulating Library in the North West , History of the Book Trade in the North (Newcastle, 1994) |
| DCHAM | Information for Hampshire, based on:
Hampshire Directory (1784)
Universal British Directory
PIGOT 1823/4, 1828, 1831/2, 1844
Post Office, Hampshire Trades Directory (1847) |
| DDM | Drewry's Derby Mercury (with date between 1773 & 1792) |
| DER-CRO | Derbyshire Record Office, registrations under Seditious Societies Act 1799 (Ref Q/RS5) |
| DESFORGES | DesForges, Jane, ''Satisfaction and Improvement': A Study of Reading in a Small Quaker Community 1770-1820', in Publishing History 49 (2001), pp5-48 |
| DIR | DIR |
| DIRCARD | Directory & Guide to Cardiff (Cardiff 1796) |
| DIXON | Information from Simon Dixon, based on Digest of Quaker marriage registers in London and Middlesex 1658-1719, Friends House, London. |
| DIXOND | Dixon, Diana, 'Newspapers in Huntingdonshire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century', in The Mighty Engine: The Printing Press and its Impact, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 2000), pp143-151 |
| DIXOND2 | Dixon, Diana, 'Paths Through the Wilderness: Recording the History of Provincial Newspapers in England', in Light on the Book Trade, eds. McKay, Barry; Hinks, John & Bell, Maureen (New Castle & London, 2004), pp153-163 |
| DJH/RSMa | Mortimer, Russell S., 'Biographical notices of printers and publishers of Friends' books up to 1750', Journal of Documentation, 3 pt 1 (June 1947) |
| DJH/RSMb | Mortimer, Russell S., 'The first century of Quaker printers', Journal of the Friends' Historical Society, 40 (1949) |
| DJH/RSMc | Mortimer, Russell S., 'The first century of Quaker printers', Journal of the Friends' Historical Society, 41 (1949) |
| DJH/RSMd | Mortimer, Russell S., 'Quaker printers, 1750-1850', Journal of the Friends' Historical Society, 50 pt 3 (1963) |
| DK.Ess | Information for Essex, based on:
Registrations (1799-1832) under the Seditious Societies Act
1799 in Essex Record Office
PENDRED
UBD
PIGOT 1823, 1826 & 1832
Peddie, R.A., 'Notes on provincial printers and booksellers
- Essex', The Library World, 7 (1904-5) |
| DK.Ken | David Knott's information for Kent, Unspecified |
| DK.Sur | Information for Surrey (1775-1829) based on:
PENDRED
UBD
PIGOT 1823, 1826 & 1828-9
PIPER3 |
| DMK | McKitterick, David, A History of Cambridge University Press, 2 volumes (Cambridge: CUP, 1992) |
| DNB | Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 1908-9) |
| DOR-CRO | Dorset County Record Office, certificates for printing presses and types for printing (Dorset Quarter Sessions Miscellaneous Papers Bundle 6) |
| DOWNIEJA | Downie, J. A. 'Periodicals and Politics in the Reign of Queen Anne', in Serials and Their Readers 1620-1914, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1993), pp45-61 |
| DOYLEAI | Doyle, A.I. 'The English Provincial Book Trade before Printing', in Six Centuries of the Provincial Booktrade in Britain, ed. Isaac, Peter (Winchester, 1990), pp13-29. |
| DREDGE | Dredge, John Ingle, Devon Booksellers and Printers in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Plymouth, 1885-91) |
| DUFF | Duff, E. Gordon, A Century of the English Book Trade (London, 1948) |
| DUNTON | Dunton, John, The Life and Errors of John Dunton (London, 1705) |
| Eastbourne Herald | Eastbourne Herald |
| EDWARDS | Edwards, F.A., 'Early Hampshire printers', Papers and Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club, 2 (1890-93), pp. 110-34 |
| EDWARDSR | Edwards, Rosa, 'James Edwards, Giambattista Bodoni and 'The Castle of Otranto': Some Unpublished Letters', in Publishing History XVIII (1985) pp5-48 |
| ELLIOT | Letter books of Charles Elliot with book number and folio, in archives of John Murray (Publishers) Ltd. |
| ENGLISHJ | English, Jim, 'Chapbooks and Primers, Piety, Poetry & Classics: The Mozleys of Gainsborough', in The Mighty Engine: The Printing Press and its Impacts, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 2000), pp153-162 |
| EP | Esther Potter. Information on bookbinders working in London from 1780-1840, taken from the Jaffray MSS in the British Library. Information supplied by Michael Turner |
| ER | Eiluned Rees, Libri Walliae |
| ESTC | Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue |
| EVANS | EVANS |
| EVENDEN/FREEMAN | Evenden, Elizabeth & Freeman, Thomas. S. 'John Foxe, John Day and the Printing of 'The Book of Martyrs', in Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, eds. Myers, Robin, Harris, Michael & Mandelbrote, Giles (London, 2002), pp23-54 |
| EXCISE | EXCISE |
| FAIRBANK | Fairbank archives in Sheffield City Archives |
| FARRELL1837-8 | Farrell, John, Draft Index to the Publishers' Circular 1837-8 |
| FARRELL1839 | Farrell, John Index to the Publisher's Circular 1839 |
| FARRELL1840 | Farrell, John, Draft Index to Publishers' Circular 1840 |
| FEATHER | Feather, John, The Provincial Book Trade in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1985) |
| FEATHER APPRENTICES | Feather, John, 'Country Book Trade Apprentices 1710-1760', Publishing History, VI, 1979, pp. 85-99 |
| FEATHER NICHOLS | Nichols, John, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1812) |
| FEATHERCOUNTRY | Feather, John. 'The Country Trade in Books' in Spreading the Word: The Distribution Network of Print 1550-1850, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1990). pp165-183 |
| FEATHERLAW1 | Feather, John, 'Publishers and Politicians: The Remaking of the Law of Copyright in Britain 1775-1842. Part 1: Legal Deposit & the Battle of the Library Tax', in Publishing History 24 (1988), pp49-76 |
| FEATHERPIRATES | Feather, John, 'The Publishers and the Pirates, British Copyright Law in Theory and Practice, 1710-1775', in Publishing History 22 (1987), pp5-32 |
| FEATHERWALTER | Feather, John, 'John Walter and the Logographic Press' in Publishing History I (1977), pp92-134 |
| FERDINAND | Ferdinand, Christine, 'The Salisbury Journal 1729-1785: a study of a provincial newspaper', DPhil. Thesis, Oxford University (1990) |
| FERDINAND2 | Ferdinand, Christine, 'Magdalen College and the Book trade: The Provision of Books in Oxford, 1450-1550', in The Book Trade and its Customers 1450-1900: Historical Essays for Robin Myers eds. Hunt, Arnold, Giles Mandelbrote & Alison Shell (Winchester, 1997), pp175-187 |
| FERDINANDCY | Ferdinand, C.Y. 'Local Distribution Networks in Eighteenth Century England' in Spreading the Word: The Distribution Network of Print 1550-1850, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1990). pp131-149 |
| FISHWICK | FISHWICK |
| FLEEMAN | Fleeman, J.D., 'Michael Johnson, The 'Lichfield Librarian'', in Publishing History 39 (1996), pp5-22 |
| FOOTM | Foot, Mirjam, 'Some Bookbinders' Price lists of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century', in Economics of the British Booktrade 1605-1939, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Cambridge, 1985). pp124-175. |
| FOOTMM | Foot, Mirjam. M. 'Scholar-Collectors and their Bindings' in Antiquaries, Book Collectors and their Circles of Learning eds. Myers, R & Harris, M (Winchester, 1996) pp27-43. |
| FORDJ | Ford, John, 'Ackermann Imprints and Publications', in Maps and Prints: Aspects of English Booktrade, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1984), pp109-124. |
| FORSTER ETAL | Forster, Geoffrey; Hamilton, Alice; Hoare, Peter & Robinson, Elaine, 'A Very Good Public Library': Early Years of the Leeds Library (Newcastle, 2001) |
| FOWLERLEIC | Fowler, J. A Leicester Directory 1815 (Leicester, 1815) |
| FOXON | Foxon, David, English Verse 1701-1750 (Cambridge, 1975) |
| FREARSON | Frearson, Michael, 'The Distribution and Readership of London corantos in the 1620s', in Serial and Their Readers 1620-1914, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1993), pp1-25 |
| FREEMANTLE | Freemantle Collection 159 (Sheffield Archives) and Freemantle, W.T., A Bibliography of Sheffield and Vicinity, section 1 to end 1700 (Sheffield, 1911) |
| Frostick | Frostick, R. The printed plans of Norwich 1558-1840 (Norwich, 2003) |
| FUDERER | Fuderer, Laura Sue, Eighteenth-Century British Women in Print: catalogue of an exhibition (Notre Dame, 1995) |
| FURBANK/OWENS | Furbank, P N & Owens, W R, 'Documents and Sources on the Attribution of Periodicals and Newspapers to Daniel Defoe', in Publishing History 40 (1996), pp83-98. |
| GADD | Gadd, Ian, 'Hunting Down John Wolfe for the New DNB', in Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, eds. Myers, Robin; Harris, Michael & Mandelbrote, Giles (London, 2002). pp192-201 |
| GALES & MARTIN | Gales, Joseph and Martin, David, Directory of Sheffield (Sheffield, 1787) |
| GAVIN | John Gavin |
| GAVIN2 | Gavin, John, 'Cumbrian Literary Institutions: Cartmel & Furness to 1900', in Images and Texts: Thier Production and Distribution in the 18th and 19th Century, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1997), pp53-64 |
| GAVIN3 | Gavin, John, 'Literary Institutions in the Lake Counties Part IV: Catalogues', in Light on the Book Trade, eds. McKay, Barry; Hinks, John & Bell, Maureen (New Castle & London, 2004), pp95-106 |
| GEE | Gee, Stacey, 'The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of York Before 1557', in Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society Vol XII Part 1 (2000) pp27-54 |
| GEES | Gee, Stacey, 'The Coming of Print to York c1490-1550', in The Mighty Engine: The Printing Press and its Impact, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 2000), pp79-88 |
| GELL | Gell, R., New General and Commercial Directory of Sheffield & its Vicinity (Manchester, 1825) |
| GELL & BENNETT | Gell, R. and Bennett, R., Sheffield General & Commercial Directory (Sheffield, 1821) |
| GEN | (Unknown) |
| GENT | Elizabeth Gent |
| GILBERTHORPE | Gilberthorpe, Enid C., Book Printing at Sheffield in the Eighteenth Century (Sheffield City Libraries, Local Studies Leaflet, 1967; reprd. 1974) |
| GJ | Information from Graham Jefcoate's study of German members of the book trade in London |
| GLEN | Glen, Robert, Stockport Printers and Booksellers, 1771-1830 |
| GLO-CRO | Goucestershire County Record Office, notices given to the Clerk of the Peace of the intention to use printing presses pursuant to Geo III c.79 (Q/RP1) |
| GLOVER | Glover, Stephen, Directory of the County of Derby, taken during the years 1827-9 (Derby, 1829) |
| GOODALL | Goodall, Michael H., information from Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards (Minute Books and other records) |
| GOULDEN | Richard Goulden's information for Kent, from directories and other local records. |
| GOULDEN2 | Goulden, R. J. 'False Imprints and the Bridger Specimen Books', in Light on the Book Trade, eds. McKay, Barry; Hinks, John & Bell, Maureen (New Castle & London, 2004), pp189-196 |
| GOULDENHW | Goulden, Richard, The Ornament Stock of Henry Woodfall, 1719-1747 (Bibliographical Society Occasional Paper No.3, 1988) |
| GOULDENKENT | Goulden, R. J. 'Print Culture in the Kentish Weald', in The Reach of Print: Making, Selling and Using Books, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1998), pp 1-20 |
| GRAY | Gray, Valerie, 'Charles Knight and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: A Special Relationship (1827-46)', in Publishing History 53 (2003), pp23-74 |
| GREEN | Green, Ian , ''Puritan Prayer Books' and 'Geneva Bibles': An Episode in Elizabethan Publishing', in Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society Vol XI Part 3 (1998) pp313-349 |
| GREG | Greg, W.W., A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration (London, 1957) vol.3, pp.1488-1557 |
| GREWCOCK | Grewcock, Craig E., 'The Leicester Mechanics' Institution 1833-1870', in The Adaptation of Change, ed. D. Williams (Leicester, 1980) |
| GRIFFITHSDN | Griffiths, David. N. 'Print, Privilege and Piracy in the Book of Common Prayer', in Light on the Book Trade, eds. McKay, Barry; Hinks, John & Bell, Maureen (New Castle & London, 2004), pp73-84 |
| GRUBST | 'The Minute Book of the Partners in the 'Grub st Journal'', in Publishing History IV (1978), pp49-94 |
| GRUFFYDD | Gruffydd, R. Geraint, 'Chapter 4: The First Printed Books, 1546-1604', in A Nation and its Books: A History of the Book in Wales, eds. Jones, Philip Henry & Eiluned Rees (National Library of Wales, 1998), pp55-65 |
| HALLAM | Personal data for Suffolk |
| HALLDJ | Hall, David J ''The Fiery Tryal of Their Infallible Examination': Self control in the Regulation of Quaker Publishing in England from the 1670s to the mid Nineteenth Century' pp59-86 in Censorship and the Control of Print in England and France 1600-1910, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1992). |
| HAM-CRO | Registrations under the Seditious Societies Act 1799, Hampshire Record Office (Ref Q16/6, items 1-41) |
| HANKS | Data for Staffordshire bookbinders |
| HARDINGV | Harding, Vanessa, 'Mortality and the Mental Map of London: Richard Smith's Obituary', in Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1998), pp49-71. |
| HARPER | Information from Berry Harper for Sussex based on materials from
Brighton Reference Library
Hove Reference Library
Hove
Hastings Reference Library |
| HARRISM | Harris, Michael, 'London Guidebooks Before 1800' in Maps and Prints: Aspects of the English Booktrade, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1984), pp31-66. |
| HARRISM2 | Harris, Michael, 'Periodicals and the Book Trade', in Development of the English Booktrade 1700-1899. eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1981), pp66-94. |
| HARRISM3 | Harris, Michael, 'Moses Pitt and Insolvency in the London Book Trade in the Late-Seventeenth Century', in Economics of the British Book Trade 1605-1939, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Cambridge, 1985). pp176-208. |
| HARRISM4 | Harris, Michael, 'Newspaper Advertising for Book auctions before 1700', in Under the Hammer: Book Auctions Since the Seventeenth Century, eds. Myers, Robin & Michael Harris (London, 2001), pp1-14 |
| HARRISM5 | Harris, Michael, 'Trials and Criminal Biographies: A Case Study in Distribution', in Sale and Distribution of Books from 1700, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1982), pp1-36. |
| HARRISM6 | Harris, Michael, 'The Alternative Book Trade in Mid-Eighteenth Century London', in Fakes & Frauds: Varieties of Deception in Print and Manuscripts, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1989), pp47-69 |
| HARRISM7 | Harris, Michael, 'Print in Neighbourhood Commerce: The Case of Carter Lane', in The London Book Trade, eds. Myers, Robin: Harris, Michael & Mandelbrote, Giles (London, 2003), pp45-69 |
| HARRISM8 | Harris, Michael, 'Review Article: Astrology, Almanacks and Booksellers', in Publishing History 8 (1980), pp87-104. |
| HARRISM9 | Harris, Michael, 'Scratching the Surface: Engravers, Printsellers and the London Book Trade in the mid 18th century', in The Book Trade and its Customers 1450-1900: Historical Essays for Robin Myers, eds. Hunt, Arnold, Giles Mandelbrote & Alison Shell (Winchester, 1997) |
| Harrison | Information from David Harrison |
| HARTOPP | Hartopp, Henry, Roll of the Mayors of the Borough and Lord Mayors of the City of Leicester 1209-1935 (Leicester, [1936]) |
| HBTN1 | Unlawful Societies Act 1799: Printers' Registrations in West Yorkshire 1799-1867, History of the Book Trade in the North (1994) |
| HENRYM | Henry, Michael, 'The Nineteenth-Century Printing Apprenticeship: Elements of Change', in Aspects of Printing, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1987), pp90-113. |
| HERRMANN | Herrmann, Frank 'The Emergence of the Book Auctioneer as a Professional' pp1-14 in Property of a Gentleman: The Formation, Organisation and Dispersal of the Private Library 1620-1920, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1991). |
| HETET | Hetet, John, 'The Wardens' Accounts of the Stationers' Company, 1663-79', in Economics of the British Booktrade 1605-1939, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Cambridge, 1985). pp32-59. |
| HFR | Records for Herefordshire etc. |
| HFRC | Hereford Cathedral Library archive |
| HFRD | Herefordshire directories [17]92, [18]22 etc. |
| HFRJ | British Chronicle continued as Hereford Journal (sometimes with issue number) |
| HFRJ(S) | Hereford Journal or Smith's Weekly News |
| HFRL | Hereford City Library local collections |
| HFRM | Minute book of the Haberdashers' Company (in Hereford City Library local collections) |
| HFRR | Herefordshire County Record Office Archive |
| HFRT | Morgan, F.C., 'Herefordshire printers and booksellers', Transactions of the Woolhope Field Naturalists' Club (1939-41), pp.106-27; & supplementary notes (Hereford) |
| HFT-CRO | Registrations under the Seditious Societies Act 1799, Hertfordshire Record Office (Ref QSMISC 2690A-2720 & LIB SR 127/1 & 167/29) |
| HINGLEYS | Hingley, Sheila, 'Elham Parish Library', in The Reach of Print: Making, Selling and Using Books, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1998), pp175-190 |
| HINKSJ | Hinks, John, 'Some Radical Printers and Booksellers of Leicester c1790-1850', in The Mighty Engine: The Printing Press and its Impact, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 2000), pp175-184. |
| HINKSJ2 | Hinks, John, 'The Beginnings of the Book Trade in Leicester', in The Moving Market: Continuality and Change in the Book Trade, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Oak Knoll, 2001). pp27-38 |
| HINKSJ3 | Hinks, John, 'John Gregory and the 'Leicester Journal'', in Light on the Book Trade, eds. McKay, Barry; Hinks, John & Bell, Maureen (New Castle & London, 2004), pp85-94 |
| HODGSON & BLAGDEN | Hodgson, N. and Cyprian Blagden (ed.), The Notebook of Thomas Bennet and Henry Clements (1686-1719) with some aspects of book trade practice (Oxford, 1953) |
| HODSON1/2 | Hodson, Donald, County Atlases of the British Isles Published after 1703, vols. 1 & 2 (Welwyn, 1984 & 1989) |
| HODSONWH | Hodson, William Henry, Hodson's Booksellers', Publishers' and Stationers' Directory for London and Country (London, 1855) |
| HOLDEN | Holden's Triennial Directory Unspecified (London: W. Holden) |
| HOLDEN02 | Holden's Triennial Directory, 1802, 1803, & 1804, 3rd edn (London: W. Holden [1802]) |
| HOLDEN05 | Holden's Triennial Directory, 1805, 1806, & 1807, 4th edn (London: W. Holden [1805]) |
| HOLDEN09 | Holden's Triennial Directory, 1809, 1810, & 1811, 5th edn (London: J. Davenport [1809]) |
| HOLDEN11 | Holden's Annual London & Country Directory, 1811 (London: W. Holden, [1811]) |
| HOLMESM | Holmes, Martin, 'Samuel Gamidge: Bookseller in Worcester (c1755-1777)', in Images and Texts: Their Production and Distribution in the 18th and 19th Century , eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1997), pp11-52 |
| HORDENJ | Horden, John, ''In the Savoy': John Nutt and his Family', in Publishing History 24 (1988), pp5-26 |
| HORNERC | Horner, Craig, ''That Great Fountain of Truth, Good Manners and What Not': Competing for the Hearts and Minds of Newspaper Readers in Manchester, 1730-60', in Printing and the Book in Manchester 1700-1850, eds. Cass, Eddie & Garratt, Morris (Otley, 2001), 51-70 |
| HOUNSLOWD | Hounslow, David, 'A Moving Market: The Influence of London Books of Street Cries in Provincial Editions to c1830', in The Moving Market: Continuality and Change in the Book, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Oak Knoll, 2001). pp39-50 |
| HOUNSLOWD2 | Hounslow, David, 'From George III to Queen Victoria: A Provincial Family and their Books', in Light on the Book Trade, eds. McKay, Barry; Hinks, John & Bell, Maureen (New Castle & London, 2004), pp61-72 |
| HOWE | Howe, Ellic, A List of London Bookbinders 1648-1815 (London, 1950) |
| HOWECO | Howe, Ellic, The London Compositor: Documents relating to Wages, Working Conditions and Customs of the London Printing Trade 1785-1900 (London, 1947) |
| HUDSON | Hudson, A. Lollards and their books, 1985, p53. |
| HUGHES | Hughes, M.L.H., 'Light Industry in Newcastle under Lyme in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century', unpublished dissertation, University of Keele (1981) |
| Humphreys | Arthur Humphreys, Piccadilly Bookmen: Memorials of the House of Hatchard (London: Hatchards, 1893) |
| HUMPHRIES | Humphries, Charles and William C. Smith, Music Publishing in the British Isles from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century (London, 1954) |
| HUNNISETT | Hunnisett, Basil, An Illustrated Dictionary of British Steel Engravers (Scolar Press, 1989) |
| HUNT | Hunt, C.J., The Book Trade in Northumberland and Durham to 1860 (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1975) |
| HUNT1849 | Hunt & Co's Directory for Gloucester, Bristol & Welsh Towns (Newport, 1849) |
| HUNT1850 | Hunt & co, Directory for Bristol and South Wales (London, 1850) |
| HUNT1851 | Hunt & co Directory of Dorset, Hants, Wilts, Somerset (London, 1851) |
| HUNTA | Hunt, Arnold, 'Book Trade Patents, 1603-1640', in The Book Trade and its customers 1450-1900: Historical Essays for Robin Myers, eds. Hunt, Arnold, Giles Mandelbrote & Alison Shell (Winchester, 1997) |
| HUNTER | Entry for James DAVIES, Birmingham??? |
| HUTTAR | Huttar, Charles A, 'Wyatt and the Several Editions of 'The Court of Venus'', in Studies in Bibliography 19 (1966), pp181-195 |
| HYDER | Hyde, Ralph, 'Robert Havell junior, Artist and Aquatinter', in Maps and Prints: Aspects of the English Booktrade, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1984). pp81-108 |
| HYETTAUS | Hyett, Francis Adams & Roland Austin, Supplement to the Bibliographer's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature (Gloucester, 1915) |
| HYETTBAZ | Hyett, Francis Adams & Rev. William Bazeley, The Bibliographer's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature (Gloucester, 1896) |
| Ibm | Information for Bristol from Matthews Bristol Directory |
| IBsk | Information for Bristol from Sketchley's Bristol Directory |
| IM.EWP7 | Maxted, Ian, The Devon Book Trades: a biographical dictionary (Exeter Working Paper No. 7) |
| IM.EWP8 | Maxted, Ian, The British Book Trades 1775-1787: an index to insurance policies (Exeter Working Paper No. 8) |
| IM.EWP9 | Maxted, Ian, Newspaper Readership in South West England: an analysis of the Flindell's Western Luminary subscription list of 1815 (Exeter Working paper No. 9) |
| IMAGO MUNDI | Imago Mundi, The Journal of the International Society for the History of Cartography |
| IRI | Inland Revenue ledgers of payment of stamp duty on apprentice indentures in Public Record Office, Kew (with volume no. and page, e.g. IRI63/7=vol.63, p.7) |
| ISAAC/MCKAY1 | Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry, eds.The Moving Market: Continuality and Change in the Book Trade (Delaware, 2001) |
| ISAAC/MCKAY2 | Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry, eds. The Reach of Print: Making, Selling and Using Books (Winchester, 1998) |
| ISAAC/MCKAY3 | Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry, eds. The Human Face of the Book Trade: Print Culture and its Creator (Winchester, 1999) |
| ISAAC/MCKAY4 | Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry, eds.Images & Texts: Their Production and Distribution in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Winchester, 1997) |
| ISAAC3 | Isaac, Peter, 'Bulmer's Influential Supporters: An Inquiry Still in Progress', in Aspects of Printing from 1600-1700, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1987), pp49-68. |
| ISAAC4 | Isaac, Peter, 'The English Provincial Book Trade to 1800', in Printing and the Book in Manchester 1700-1850, eds. Cass, Eddie & Garratt, Morris (Otley, 2001), pp7-27 |
| ISAAC5 | Isaac, Peter, 'William Davison of Alnwick and Provincial Publishing in his Time', in Publishing History 40 (1996), pp6-32 |
| ISAAC6 | Isaac, Peter, 'Maria Eliza Rundell and her Publisher', in 'Publishing History 43' (1998), pp17-32 |
| ISAACP | Isaac, Peter, 'Pills and Prints', in Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1998), pp25-47 |
| ISAACP2 | Isaac, Peter, 'Charles Elliott and the Provincial Booktrade', in The Human Face of the Book Trade: Print Culture and its Creators, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1999), pp97-116. |
| ISAACSIX | Isaac, Peter, ed. Six Centuries of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain (Winchester, 1990) |
| ISSIT | Issit, John, 'The Natural History of a Text Book', in Publishing History 47 (2000), pp5-30 |
| JAL | Alan Longbottom, Unspecified |
| JAL/BATTLE | JAL/BATTLE |
| JAL/BC | Brotherton Collection |
| JAL/BWK | Borthwick |
| JAL/CHAL | Chalmers Biographical Dictionary |
| JAL/CLOHen4 | Close Rolls, reign of Henry IV |
| JAL/HARL | Harleian Society volumes |
| JAL/HARLREG | Harleian Society Register Series |
| JAL/INDXLIB | British Record Society Index Library Series |
| JAL/LG | London Gazette |
| JAL/LL | Leeds Subscription Library |
| JAL/NICH1 | Nicholson's |
| JAL/PC1542-7 | Acts of the Privy Council |
| JAL/QUA | Quaker Bibliography (Smith) |
| JAL/SR | Surrey Record [?Society] Series |
| JAL/TH | Thoroton Society |
| JAL/WHITE 1826 | White's 1826 Hull |
| JAL/WORCPROB | Worcester Record Series |
| JAL/WORQS | Worcester Record Series [?see JAL/WORCPROB. ??] |
| JAL/YASRS | Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series (with vol. no. where appropriate) |
| JAMES | James, M R, Catalogue of Library of Leicester Abbey |
| JAY | Information from Susie Jay for Somerset |
| JBBHER | Information from pamphlets in Hereford Cathedral Library |
| JBM | Morris, John B., Provincial Printing and Publishing in Great Britain: an annotated catalogue of a collection of books and related material (York, n.d.) |
| JENKINS | Jenkins, W.A., 'The Economic and Social History of Leicester: 1660 to 1835' (London University M.A. thesis, 1952) |
| JH | Information on broadside printers |
| JM1 | John Murray I's letter-books, indexed by William Zachs |
| JOHNSON | Johnson, J., Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor (London, 1824), vol.ii, pp.649-52 |
| JOHNSTONE | Johnstone's London Commercial Guide and Street Directory (London: D. Johnstone, 1817) |
| JONES | Jones, Brian, Index of York Oaths of Allegiance 1723 (York City Archives, YCA F12) |
| JONESA | Jones, Aled, 'Constructing the Readership in 19th Century Wales', in Serials and Their Readers 1620-1914, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1993), pp145-162 |
| JONESPHENRY | Jones, Philip Henry, 'The Welsh Wesleyan Bookroom, 1824-8: A New Set of Printing Accounts', in The Reach of Print: Making, Selling and Using Books, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1998), pp37-49 |
| JONESPHENRY2 | Jones, Philip Henry, 'Thomas Gee Senior', in Light on the Book Trade, eds. McKay, Barry; Hinks, John & Bell, Maureen (New Castle & London, 2004), pp175-188 |
| JONESPHENRY3 | Jones, Philip Henry, 'Wales and the Stationers' Company', in The Stationers' Company and the Book Trade 1550-1990, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1997), pp185-201 |
| JPF | Feather, John, 'John Clay of Daventry: the business of an eighteenth-century stationer', Studies in Bibliography, vol. 37 (1984), pp.198-209 |
| JSE | Information for Lincolnshire, based on the following directories:
KELLY 1849, 1855 & 1861
PIGOT 1828, 1834/5 & 1841
SLATER 1849
WHITE 1826, 1831, 1842 & 1856
Hagar & Co's Commercial Directory of the Market Towns in Lincolnshire…
1849 |
| JSEPR | Information from parish records transcript for Gainsborough |
| KAM | Keith Manley |
| KASSLER | Kassler, Jamie Croy, The Science of Music in Britain, 1714-1839: a catalogue of writings, lectures and inventions (New York & London, 1979), 2 vols. |
| KAUFMAN | Kaufman, Paul, The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social history (Transactions of the American Philological society. Ns 57, part 7 1967). |
| KELLY | Kelly's Post Office Directory of various counties with date |
| KEN-CRO | Registrations under the Seditious Societies Act 1799, Kent Record Office (Ref Q/RSL/..) |
| KENNEDYJD | Kennedy, Joyce Deveau, 'Defoe's 'An Essay Upon Projects': The Order of Issues', in Studies in Bibliography 23 (1970), pp170-175. |
| KEWESP | Kewes, Pauline, 'Shakespeare's Lives in Print, 1662-1821', in Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, eds. Myers, Robin, Harris, Michael & Mandelbrote, Giles (London, 2002), pp55-82 |
| KEWESP1 | Kewes, Pauline, ''Give me the Sociable Pocket-Books...': Humphrey Moseley's Serial Publication of Octavo Play Collections', in Publishing History 28 (1995), pp6-21 |
| KINNELL | Kinnell, Margaret, 'Childhood and Children's Literature: The Case of M.J. Godwin & co., 1805-25', in Publishing History 24 (1988), pp77-99. |
| KNOTT | Knott, D.H., The Book Trade in Kent, Working Papeers: i. 'Canterbury Dirctory ca 1776 to 1832' (1932); ii. 'Isle of Thanet Directory ca 1776 to 1838' (1989); and other Kent records not yet published in Working Papers |
| KORSTEN | Korsten, Frank, 'Thomas Baker and his Books' in Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society Vol VIII Part 5 (1985), pp491-513 |
| KRESS | KRESS |
| KRUMMEL | D.W. Krummel & Stanley Sadie (eds.), Music Printing and Publishing, The Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1990) |
| KTG | Goulden, R.J., Kent Town Guides 1763-1900 (London, 1995) |
| LAMBERT1640 | Lambert, Sheila 'State Control of the Press in Theory and Practice: The Role of the Stationers' Company Before 1640' pp1-32 in Censorship and the Control of Print in England and France 1600-1900, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1992). |
| LAMBERT2 | Lambert, Sheila, 'The Printers and the Government, 1604-1637', in Aspects of Printing from 1600, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1987), pp1-29 |
| LANE | Entry for John CALDICOTT, Birmingham??? |
| LAVIN | Lavin, J. A., 'John Danter's Ornamental Stock', in Studies in Bibliography 23 (1970), pp21-44 |
| LBR | Leicester Borough Records |
| LCAS | Printing and the Book in Manchester 1700-1850, Lancashire and Cheshire Anitquarian Society (2001) |
| LEADER | LEADER |
| LEARY | Lary, Patrick, ''Our Chief Speculative Monument of this Age': The Publishing of Mill's 'Logic'', in Publishing History 44 (1998), pp39-57 |
| LEEDHAM-GREEN | Leedham-Green, E.S. 'Booksellers and Libraries in Sixteenth Century Cambridge', in Libraries and the Book Trade: The Formation of Collections, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (New Castle, 2000), pp1-14 |
| LEEDHAM-GREEN2 | Leedham-Green, Elisabeth, 'Manasses Vautrollier in Cambridge', in The Book Trade and its Customers 1450-1900: Historical Essays for Robin Myers eds. Hunt, Arnold; Giles Mandelbrote & Alison Shell (Winchester, 1997) |
| LEEDS | A History of Leeds. Compiled from various authors (Leeds, 1798); A Directory for…Leeds (Leeds: Binns & Brown, 1800); A New & Complete Directory for…Leeds (Leeds: George Wilson, 1807); The Leeds Directory for 1809 (Leeds: M. Robinson, 1809); Directory, General & Commercial of…Leeds for 1817 & 1834 (Leeds: Edward Baines, 1817 & 1834) |
| LEEDS 1798 | Leeds Directory 1798
editor/publisher unspecified |
| LEEDS 1842 | White, William, Directory & Topography of Leeds and the whole of the Clothing District of the West Riding of Yorkshire, R. Leader, Sheffield (1842). |
| LEEDS 1847 | White, William, Directory & Topography of Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield and the whole of the Clothing District of the West Riding of Yorkshire, R. Leader, Sheffield (1847). |
| LEFANU | LeFanu, William, A Catalogue of Books Belonging to Dr Jonathan Swift, (Cambridge Bibliographical Society Monograph no.10, Cambridge, 1988) |
| Léger-St-Jean | Léger-St-Jean, Marie. Price One Penny: A Database of Cheap Literature, 1837-1860. [19 March 2017]. Faculty of English, Cambridge [05 July 2017] (http://priceonepenny.info). |
| LEI-CRO | Leicestershire County Record Office |
| LeiFree | Hartopp, Henry, Registers of Freemen and Apprentices of Leicester |
| LEWIS | Lewis, C.T. Courtney, The Story of Picture Printing in England during the Nineteenth Century (London, n.d.) |
| LG | LG |
| LGA | LGA |
| LIB | Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, quarterly periodical, published by OUP. |
| LIN-CRO | Lincolnshire Record Office |
| LINDENBAUM | Lindenbaum, Peter, 'Rematerialising Milton', Publishing History 41 (1997), pp5-22 |
| LLCat.65 | LLCat.65 |
| LLOYD | Lloyd, Llewellyn C., 'The book trade in Shropshire', Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological & Natural History Society, 48 (1935-6), pp. 65-141, 145-200 |
| LLOYD1 | Lloyd, James W., Herefordshire Tokens of the 17th Century with Notes on the Issuers thereof (1883) |
| LM | LM |
| LOCKYER | Lockyer, Lionel, An Advertisement Concerning those Most Excellent Pills Called Pilulae Radiis Solis Extractae. Being an Universal Medicine (London, Year Unspecified [1665, 1667 or 1676]) |
| LOCKYER5 | Lockyer, Lionel, An Advertisement Concerning those Most Excellent Pills Called Pilulae Radiis Solis Extractae. Being an Universal Medicine (London, 1665) |
| LOCKYER6 | Lockyer, Lionel, An Advertisement Concerning those Most Excellent Pills Called Pilulae Radiis Solis Extractae. Being an Universal Medicine (London, 1676) |
| LOCKYER7 | Lockyer, Lionel, An Advertisement Concerning those Most Excellent Pills Called Pilulae Radiis Solis Extractae. Being an Universal Medicine (London, 1667) |
| LONSTAT | Christianson, C. Paul, A Directory of London Stationers and Book Artisans 1300-1500 (New York, 1990) |
| LP | Sheffield Local Studies Local Pamphlets (with vol. & no.) |
| LW | Worms, Laurence, British Map Engravers (work in progress) |
| MACKENZIEDF | MacKenzie, D. F. 'Stationers' Company Liber A: An Apologia, in The Stationers' Company and the Book Trade 1550-1990, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1997), pp35-63 |
| MACLEAN | MACLEAN |
| MADDEN | Madden Collection of broadsides in Cambridge University Library, index by R.S. Thomson |
| MAIDWELL | Maidwell, C.F., Some Notes on Papermaking in Northumberand (History of the Book Trade in the North, Working Paper PH 52/ December 1988) |
| MAIDWELLDUR | Maidwell, C.F., Some Notes on Papermaking in County Durham (History of the Book Trade in the North, Working Paper PH 47/ July 1987) |
| MAIDWELLGEN | Maidwell, C.F., Notes on Papermaking in Britain, typescript notes in 2 vols. (copies in the libraries of Universities of Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne) |
| MAN | Man, F.H., 'Lithography in England (1801-1810)', in C. Zigrosser (ed.), Prints (London, 1963) |
| MANDELBROTE | Mandelbrote, Giles 'From the Warehouse to the Country-House: Booksellers and Bookshops in late Seventeenth Century London' in A Genius for Letters: Booksellers and Bookselling from the 16th to the 20th Century, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1995), pp49-84 |
| MANDELBROTE2 | Mandelbrote, Giles. 'The Organization of Book Auctions in Late Seventeenth Century London', in Under the Hammer: Book Auctions since the Seventeenth Century London, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (London, 2001), pp15-50 |
| MANDELBROTE3 | Mandelbrote, Giles, 'Workplaces and Living Spaces: London Book Trade Inventories of the Seventeenth Century', in The London Book Trade, eds. Myers, Robin; Harris, Michael & Mandelbrote, Giles (London, 2003), pp21-43 |
| MANDELBROTE4 | Mandelbrote, Giles, ''Richard Bentley's Copies: The Ownership of Copyrights in the late 17th Century', in The Book Trade & its Customers 1450-1900: Historical Essays for Robin Myers, eds. Hunt, Arnold, Giles Mandelbrote & Alison Shell (Winchester, 1997) |
| MANDLG | Mandl, George, 'Paper Chase: A Millennium in the Production and use of Paper', in A Millennium of Book Production, Design and Illustration in Manuscript and Print 900-1900, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1994), pp181-190. |
| MANLEY | Manley. K.A. 'Booksellers, Peruke-Makers, and Rabbit Merchants: The Growth of Circulating Libraries in the Eighteenth Century', in Libraries and the Book Trade: The Formation of Collections from the 16th to the 20th Century, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (New Castle, 2000), pp29-50 |
| MANNEX | Mannex, History & Directory of Westmoreland (Beverley, 1851) |
| MANNIX | Mannix, History, Gazetteer & Directory of Cumberland (Beverley, 1847) |
| MANTER | Manterfield, John B., 'Edward Pawlett of Grantham: a provincial bookseller 1660-1687', Lincolnshire History & Archaeology, 29 (1994), 11-16 |
| MARTIN | Martin, G. ed. Knighton's Chronicle, 1995 |
| MASLEN | Maslen, Keith. I.D., ''Press'' Letters: Samuel Aris 1730-32', in Studies in Bibliography 23 (1970), pp119-126 |
| MATHEWS | Mathews, William, Edward, Joseph or Mathew, New Directory for Bristol, with year |
| MATHEWSSWANSEA | Mathews, William, Swansea Directory (Bristol, 1816) |
| MAXTED | Maxted, Ian, The London Book Trades, 1775-1800: a preliminary checklist of members (Folkestone, 1977)
Maxted, Ian, The London Book Trades, 1735-1775: a checklist of members in trade directories and in Musgrave's 'Obituary' (Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History No.3, 1984) |
| MAXTED2 | Maxted, Ian, ''4 Rotten Cornbags and Sold Old Books': The Impact of the Printed Word in Devon', in Sale and Distribution of Books from 1700, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1982). pp37-76. |
| MAXTED83 | Maxted, Ian, The British Book Trades, 1710-1777: an index of masters and apprentices recorded in the Inland Revenue registers at the Public Record Office, Kew (Exeter, 1983) |
| MAXTED89 | Maxted, Ian, Books with Devon Imprints: A Handlist to 1800, Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History: 6 (Exeter, 1989) |
| MAXTEDBANKRUPTS | Maxted, Ian, The British Book Trades: 1731-1806: A Checklist of Bankrupts (Exeter, 1985) |
| MAXTEDBRICE | Maxted, Ian, 'Andrew Brice, Printer of Exeter: An Agreeable Biographical Gallimaufry', in Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, eds. Myers, Robin; Harris, Michael & Mandelbrote, Giles (London, 2002), pp83-110 |
| MAXTEDDEVON | Maxted, Ian, 'Mobility and Innovation in the Book Trades: Some Devon Examples', in Six Centuries of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain, ed. Isaac, Peter (Winchester, 1990), pp73-85. |
| MAXTEDEX | Maxted, Ian 'Single Sheets from a Country Town: The Example of Exeter' in Spreading the Word: The Distribution Network on Print 1550-1850, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1990). pp109-129. |
| MAXTEDN | Notes supplied by Ian Maxted |
| MCDOUGALLW | McDougall, Warren, 'Charles Elliott and the London Booksellers in the Early Years', in The Human Face of the Book Trade: Print Culture and its Creators, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1999), pp81-96 |
| MCKAY | Information for Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire north of the Sands |
| MCKAYCHAP | McKay, Barry 'Three Cumbrian Chapbook Printers: The Dunns of Whitehaven, Ann Bell & Anthony Soulby of Penrith' in Images & Texts: Their Production and Distribution in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century. eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1997), pp65-87 |
| MCKAYCUMB | McKay, Barry, 'Cumbrian Chapbook Cuts: Some Sources and Other Versions', in The Reach of Preint: Making, Selling and Using Books, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1998). pp65-84 |
| MCKAYWARE | McKay, Barry, 'John Ware, Printer and Bookseller of Whitehaven: A Year from his Day-Books, 1799-1800', in The Mighty Engine: The Printing Press and its Impact, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 2000), pp163-174. |
| MCKAYWHITE | McKay, Barry, 'Books in Eighteenth Century Whitehaven', in Light on the Book Trade, eds. McKay, Barry; Hinks, John & Bell, Maureen (New Castle & London, 2004), pp51-59 |
| MCKENZIE1 | McKenzie, D.F., Stationers' Company Apprentices 1605-1640 (Charlottesville, 1961) |
| MCKENZIE2 | McKenzie, D.F., Stationers' Company Apprentices 1641-1700 (Oxford, 1974) |
| MCKENZIE3 | McKenzie, D.F., Stationers' Company Apprentices 1701-1800 (Oxford, 1978) |
| MCLARK | Martin Clark: Information taken from the Buckinghamshire Posse Comitatus 1798 |
| MCLEAN1 | McLean, Ruari, Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, 2nd ed. (London, 1972) |
| MELTONF | Melton, Frank, 'Robert and Sir Francis Gosling: Eighteenth Century Bankers and Stationers', in Economics of the British Booktrade 1605-1939, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Cambridge, 1985). pp60-77. |
| MHWOR | Information for Worcestershire from the following sources:
1. Bentley's History, Guide, and Alphabetical & Classified Directory,
of the Borough of Worcester (Birmingham, 1840) [RADMORE 102]
2. PIGOT 42
3. Hunt & Co's Royal National and
Commercial Directory…of Derbyshire and Worcestershire (London,
1847) [RADMORE 120]
4. 1851 Census Worcestershire:
transcript & surname index (Birmingham & Midland Society for
Genealogy and Heraldry)
5. Whitehead, David, Urban
Renewal and Suburban Growth (Worcestershire Historical Society,
Occasional Publication 5)
6. Wilson, J.B. (ed.), The
Parish Book of St Helen's Church in Worcester (1900)
7. Berrow's Worcester Journal, various issues
8. Slater's (late Pigot & Co) Royal National & Commercial Directory…of
Derbyshire…Worcestershire… 1850 (London, 1850)
9.
Lascelles & Co's Directory & Gazetteer of the City of Worcester &
Neighbourhood… (Worcester, 1851)
10. Post Office
Directory of Birmingham with Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire…
(London: Kelly, 1854)
11. M. Billing's Directory &
Gazetteer of the County of Worcestershire (Birmingham, 1855)
12. Hodson, William Henry, Hodson's Booksellers', Publishers'
and Stationers' Directory for London and Country (London, 1855;
facs. Oxford Bibliographical Society Occasional Publication 7, 1972)
13. The Post Office Directory of Worcestershire (London:
Kelly, 1860)
14. Slater's…Directory…1862 (London,
1862)
15. The Post Office Directory of Worcestershire
(London: Kelly, 1863)
16. The Post Office Directory
of Worcestershire (London: Kelly, 1868)
17. Littlebury's
Directory of the City of Worcester, July 1869 (London, 1869)
18. Maxted, Ian, The British Book Trades, 1731-1806: a
checklist of bankrupts (Exeter, 1985)
19. The
Post Office Directory of Stationers, Printers, Booksellers, Publishers,
and paper makers of England, Scotland, Wales, and the Principal Towns
in Ireland (London, 1872)
20. The Post Offce Directory
of Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire
(London: Kelly, 1876)
21. Evesham Journal 10 August
1995 |
| MIDHOSP | Transcript of records of baptisms in the Middlesex Hospital, 1747-86 (Greater London Record Office) |
| MILLER | MILLER |
| MILLERWE | Miller, William E, 'Printers and Stationers in the Parish of St Giles Cripplegate 1561-1640', in Studies in Bibliography 19 (1966), pp15-38 |
| MILWARD | Rosemary Milward, 'Books and booksellers in late 17th century Chesterfield', Derbyshire Miscellany, 10 (1985), 119-45 |
| MISC | Miscellaneous sources, normally indicated by a note |
| MITCHELL | Mitchell. C.J., 'Thomas Meighan: Notes on the Father of Catholic Bookselling in England', in Publishing History X (1981) pp51-58 |
| MORGAN | Morgan, Paul, 'Book-sale catalogues in eighteenth-century Warwickshire' in An Index of Civilization: studies of printing and publishing history in honour of Keith Maslen (Melbourne, 1993), pp.89-97 |
| MORGANP | Morgan, Paul, 'The Provincial Book Trade Before the End of the Licensing Act', in Six Centuries of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain, ed. Isaac, Peter (Winchester, 1990), pp31-39. |
| Mortimer | Mortimer |
| MOTT | Mott, Albert J., Chronological Catalogue of Books Published in Liverpool |
| MOULE | Moule, Thomas, Bibliotheca Heraldica (London, 1822) |
| MURRAYH | Murray, Hugh, Scarborough, York and Leeds: The Town Plans of John Cossins 1697-1741 (York, 1977). |
| MYERS/HARRIS | Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (eds)., Economics of the British Book Trade 1605-1939. (Cambridge, 1985). |
| MYERS/HARRIS10 | Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (eds). Development of the English Book Trade 1700-1899. (Oxford, 1981). |
| MYERS/HARRIS2 | Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (eds). . Aspects of Printing from 1600, (Oxford, 1987). |
| MYERS/HARRIS3 | Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (eds). Fakes and Frauds: Varieties of Deception in Print and Manuscripts. (Winchester, 1989). |
| MYERS/HARRIS4 | Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (eds). The Stationers' Company and the Book Trade 1550-1990. (Winchester, 1997). |
| MYERS/HARRIS5 | Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (eds).Property of a Gentleman: The Formation, Organisation and Dispersal of the Private Library, 1620-1920, (Winchester, 1991). |
| MYERS/HARRIS6 | Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (eds).Libraries and the Book Trade: The Formation of Collections from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, (New Castle, 2000). |
| MYERS/HARRIS7 | Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (eds). Antiquaries, Book Collectors and the Cricles of Learning (Winchester, 1996). |
| MYERS/HARRIS8 | Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (eds). Maps and Prints: Aspects of the English Booktrade (Oxford, 1984). |
| MYERS/HARRIS9 | Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (eds). Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade (Winchester, 1998). |
| MYERSAUCTION | Myers, Robin, 'Sale by Auction: The Rise of Auctioneering Exemplified in the Firm of Christopher Cook, the Langfords, and Henry, John and George Robins (c1720-1847), in Sale and Distribution of Books from 1700, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1982), pp126-163. |
| MYERSDUC | Myers, Robin 'Dr Andrew Coltee Ducarel (1713-1785): Pioneer of Anglo-Norman Studies' in , Antiquaries, Book Collectors and the Circles of Learning, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1996). |
| MYERSHAWKINS | Myers, Robin, 'George Hawkins (1705-1780): Bookseller and Treasurer of the English Stock of the Stationers' Company', in The Stationers' Company and the Book Trade 1550-1990, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1997), pp113-149. |
| MYERSHERBERT | Myers, Robin 'William Herbert: His Library and his Friends' in Property of a Gentleman: The Formation, Organisation and Dispersal of the Private Library 1620-1920, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1991), pp133-158 |
| MYERSMS | MS Minutes of the Master printers 1805-1811 in the collection of Robin Myers |
| MYERSNICHOLLS | Myers, Robin, 'John Nicholls (1745-1826): Chronicler of the Book Trade', in Development of the English Book Trade 1700-1899, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1981). pp1-35 |
| MYERSR1 | Myers, Robin, 'John Nichols as Chairman of the Master Printers' Committee (1800-11)', in Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, eds. Myers, Robin; Harris, Michael & Mandelbrote, Giles (London, 2002), pp111-118 |
| NEUBURG | NEUBURG |
| NEWSPLAN | Newsplan: Report of the Newsplan project in the London and South Eastern Library Region (LASER) January 1992-December 1995) (London: British Library, 1996) |
| NISSEN | Nissen, C., Die Botanische Buchillustration (Stuttgart, 1951; 2nd ed. with suppl., 1996) |
| NMM | New Monthly Magazine (with vol. & page no.) |
| NOBLETT | NOBLETT |
| NOBLETTW | Noblett, William, 'Publishing by the Author: A Case Study of Dru Drury's 'Illustrations of Natural History' (1770-82)', in Publishing History 23 (1988), pp67-94 |
| NOR-CRO | Norfolk County Record Office (with ref.) |
| NORRIS | Norris, Herbert E. 'The booksellers and printers of Cirencester' Cirencester: Cirencester Naturalists'and Archaeologists' Club, 1912 |
| NORTH | North, T (ed), Accounts of Churchwardens of S. Martin's, Leicester. 1884 |
| NORTON | Norton, Jane E., Guide to the National and Provincial Directories of England and Wales, excluding London, published before 1856 (London, 1950) with reference no. |
| NUTTALL | Nuttall, Derek, A History of Printing in Chester from 1688 to 1965 (Chester, 1969) |
| NUTTALLD | Nuttall, Derek, 'English Printers and Their Typefaces, 1600-1700', in Aspects of Printing, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1987), pp30-48 |
| NYE | Eric. W. Nye, 'Effingham Wilson: The Radical Publisher of the Royal exchange', in Publishing History 36 (1994), pp87-102 |
| O&B | The travellers' log book of Oliver & Boyd (NLS Acc5000/78) with name of traveller and with ref. to Reach of Print |
| OCONNELLS | O'Connell, Sheila, 'The Print Trade in Hogarth's London', in The London Book Trade, eds. Myers, Robin; Harris, Michael & Mandelbrote, Giles (London, 2003), pp71-88 |
| OGILBY | Army Museums Ogilby Trust, Index to British Military Costume Prints (London, 1972) |
| OLDFIELD | Oldfield, John, Printers, Booksellers and Libraries in Hampshire, 1750-1800 (Winchester: Hampshire County Record Office, 1993) |
| PALMER | Palmer, Roy, 'Herefordshire street ballads', Trans. Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, 47 (1991), pp.67-82 |
| PARSONS | Parsons, Willaim, General & Commercial Directory of Leeds (Leeds: Baines, 1826) |
| PC1 | PC1 |
| PEARCE | Pearce, John (ed.), The Life and Teachings of Joseph Livesey, 2nd ed. (National Temperance Publication Dept., 1887), pp.clviii-clxviii |
| PEARSON | Pearson, David, Durham Bookbnders and Booksellers 1660-1760 (Oxford Bibliographical Society Occasional Publication 19, 1986) |
| PEARSON2 | Pearson, David Oxford Bookbinding 1500-1640 (Oxford, 2000) |
| PEARSOND | Pearson, David, 'Cambridge Bindings in Cosin's Library, Durham', in Six Centuries of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain, ed. Isaac, Peter (Winchester, 1990), pp41-60. |
| PENDRED | Pendred, John, The Earliest Directory of the Book Trade, ed. Graham Pollard (Bibliographical Society, Supplement 14, 1955) |
| PENNELL | Pennell, J. & E.R., Lithography and Lithographers (London, 1898) |
| PERKIN | Perkin, Michael, 'Hampshire notices of printing presses 1799-1867', in Peter Isaac (ed.), Six Centuries of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain (Winchester, 1990), pp.151-64 |
| PERKINM | Perkin, Michael 'Egerton Smith and the Early Nineteenth Century Book Trade in Liverpool' in Spreading the Word: The Distribution Network of Print 1550-1850, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1990). pp151-164 |
| PERKINM2 | Perkin, Michael, 'Hampshire Notices of Printing Presses, 1799-1867', in Six Centuries of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain, ed. Isaac, Peter (Winchester, 1990). pp151-164. |
| PERKINM3 | Perkin, Michael, 'William Eyres and the Warrington Press', in Aspects of Printing from 1600, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1987), pp69-89. |
| PIcat | Information from booksellers' catalogues, details normally in notes field |
| PICKFORD | Pickford, C.J., 'Bedford stationers and booksellers', Factotum, 15 (1982), pp.21-7 |
| PIGOT | Pigot, James & Slater, Isaac, Commercial Directory and
London & Provincial New Commercial Directory, covering various
parts of the country and issued:
1814, 1816, 1818 and 1819
1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825 and 1826
1827,
1828, 1829 and 1830
1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838,
1839 and 1840
1841, 1842, 1844, 1846 and 1847
1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1854 and 1855
For fuller transcriptions of titles see Norton, Jane E., Guide
to the National and Provincial Directories of England and Wales, excluding
London, published before 1856 (London, 1950) |
| PIPER1 | Piper, A. Cecil, 'The book trade in Winchester, 1549-1789', The Library, 3rd series, 7 (1916), pp.191-7 |
| PIPER2 | Piper, A. Cecil, 'The early printers and booksellers of Winchester', The Library, 4th series, 1 (1920), pp.103-10 |
| PIPER3 | Piper, A. Cecil, 'The booksellers and printers of Richmond, Surrey', The Library, 4th series, 13 (1933), pp.201-7 |
| PLOMER | May refer to the appropriate volume by Aldis or Plomer |
| PLOMER1 | Aldis, H.G. et al, A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books 1557-1640 (London, 1910) |
| PLOMER2 | Plomer, Henry R., A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 (London, 1907) |
| PLOMER3 | Plomer, Henry R. et al, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725 (London, 1922) |
| PLOMER4 | Plomer, Henry R. et al, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775 (London, 1932) |
| PM | Paul Morgan, Unspecified |
| PM.B1 | Paul Morgan, using BBS1 |
| PM.B2 | Paul Morgan, using BBS2 |
| PM.B3 | Paul Morgan, using BBS3 |
| PM.B4 | Paul Morgan, using BBS4 |
| PM.B5 | Paul Morgan, using BBS5 |
| PM.B6 | Paul Morgan, using BBS6 |
| PM.B7 | Paul Morgan, using BBS7 |
| PM.CB | Chamberlaine-Brothers, R.J., 'A Biographical Dictionary of Warwickshire Printers, Booksellers, etc. of the 18th Century', duplicated typescript with MS additions and corrections, 1987. Master copy in Warwickshire County Record Office, Warwick |
| PM.CB* | Additional notes to PM.CB |
| PM.D1 | Additional notes by Paul Morgan, using PLOMER1 |
| PM.D2 | Additional notes by Paul Morgan, using PLOMER2 |
| PM.D3 | Additional notes by Paul Morgan, using PLOMER3 |
| PM.D4 | Additional notes by Paul Morgan, using PLOMER4 |
| PM.DNB | Paul Morgan, using DNB |
| PM.JH | Hill, Joseph, The Book Makers of Old Birmingham (1907) |
| PM.JP | Paul Morgan, using PENDRED |
| PM.W | Whates, H.R.G., The Birmingham Post 1857-1950 (Birmingham Post Centenary Volume, 1957) |
| PM1 | Morgan, Paul, 'Early booksellers, printers and publishers in Stratford-upon-Avon', Trans. Birmingham Archaeological Society, 67 (1947/8), pp.55-70 |
| PM1* | Paul Morgan's corrctions and addenda to PM1 |
| PM2 | Morgan, Paul, Warwickshire 'Printers' Notices, 1799-1866 (Oxford, Publications of the Dugdale Society 28, 1970) |
| PM2* | Paul Morgan's corrections and addenda to PM2, including five Warwickshire
directories:
Pigot 1828 [RADMORE 67]
Pigot 1835
[RADMORE 83]
Pigot 1841 [RADMORE 106]
Slater
1847 [RADMORE 118]
F. White 1850 [not in RADMORE] |
| PM3 | Morgan, Paul, 'A bookseller's subscription in 1669', The Library, 5th series, 7 (1952), pp.281-2 |
| PM4 | Notes by Paul Morgan |
| POBHAM | Post Office Directory of Birmingham with Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire... (London: Kelly, 1850) |
| POLLARD | Pollard, Graham, 'The English Market for Printed Books', in Publishing History 4 (1978) pp7-48 |
| POOLEYJ | Pooley, Julian, 'Beyond the Literary Anecdotes: The Nichols Family Archive as a Source for Book Trade Biography', in Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, eds. Myers, Robin; Harris, Michael & Mandelbrote, Giles (London, 2002), pp119-150 |
| POTTERE | Potter, Esther 'To Paul's Churchyard to Treat with a Bookbinder' pp25-41 in Property of a Gentleman: The Formation, Organisation and Dispersal of the Private Library 1620-1920, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1991). |
| POTTERE2 | Potter, Esther, 'The Changing Role of the Trade Bookbinder 1800-1900', in The Book Trade and its Customers 1450-1900: Historical Essays for Robin Myers, eds. Hunt, Arnold, Giles Mandelbrote & Alison Shel (Winchester, 1997), pp161-174l |
| POTTS | POTTS |
| POWELL/WYKE | Powell, Michael & Wyke, Terry, ''Aristotle to a Wery Tall Man': Selling Second Hand Books in Manchester in the 1830s', in The Moving Market: Continuality and Change in the Book, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Oak Knoll, 2001), pp93-106. |
| POWELL/WYKE2 | Powell, Michael & Wyke, Terry, 'Penny Capitalism in the Manchester Book Trade: The Case of James Weatherley', in The Reach of Print: Making, Selling and Using Books, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1998), pp135-156 |
| POWELL/WYKE3 | Powell, Michael & Wyke, Terry, 'At the Fall of the Hammer: Auctioning Books in Manchester 1700-1850', in The Human Face of the Book Trade: Print Culture and its Creators, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1999), pp171-189 |
| POWELLM | Powell, Michael, 'Taking Stock: The Diary of Edmund Harrold of Manchester', in Light on the Book Trade, eds. McKay, Barry; Hinks, John & Bell, Maureen (New Castle & London, 2004), pp37-49 |
| PRO | Public Record Office |
| PRO/LC | PRO Lord Chamberlain's papers |
| PRO/PROB | PRO/PROB |
| ProbInv | Probate Inventory, LEI-CRO |
| Pugh | Pugh's Hereford Journal (with date) |
| RADMORE | Radmore, D.F, & S., Guide to the Directories f the West Midlands to 1850 (London: Library Association, 1971) |
| RADMORE103 | Bentley's History, Guide, and Alphabetical & Classified Directory, of Kidderminster. (1841) |
| RADMORE105 | Bentley's History, Guide, and Alphabetical & Classified Directory, of Stourbridge. (1841) |
| RADMORE106 | Pigot and Company's royal national and commercial directory …. Of Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Rutlandshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire. (1841)
Pigot and Company's royal national and commercial directory … of Derbyshire ... Herefordshire, Salop. (1842)
|
| RADMORE107 | Beck's Leamington guide. (1842)
|
| RADMORE108 | The directory of Birmingham. Wrightson & Webb, (1843)
|
| RADMORE109 | Slater. A directory of Shropshire. (1844)
|
| RADMORE110 | Directory of Burton-upon-Trent, Uttoxeter, Tamworth, Lichfield and Asby-de-la-Zouch. (1844)
|
| RADMORE111 | Post Office directory of Birmingham, Warwickshire and part of Staffordshire. (1845)
Post Office directory of London and Birmingham (1845)
|
| RADMORE112 | Beck's Leamington guide. (1845)
|
| RADMORE113 | I. Slater's National commercial directory of Ireland. (BM 1846)
|
| RADMORE114 | The directory of Birmingham. Wrightson & Webb. (1846)
|
| RADMORE115 | History, gazetteer and directory of Derbyshire. Bagshaw (1846)
|
| RADMORE116 | Williams's Guide and directory of Royal Leamington Spa. (1846)
|
| RADMORE117 | Williams's Commercial directory for Stafford and the potteries. (1846)
|
| RADMORE118 | Slater's national commercial directory of Ireland. (1847)
|
| RADMORE119 | The directory of Birmingham. Wrightson & Webb. (1847)
|
| RADMORE121 | Wolverhampton post office directory. Brigden (1847)
|
| RADMORE122 | History and general directory of the Borough of Birmingham. White. (1849)
|
| RADMORE123 | A directory of Royal Leamington Spa. Dewhirst. (1849) |
| RADMORE124 | Wolverhampton directory. (1849) |
| RADMORE125 | Slater's royal national and commercial directory, (1850) |
| RADMORE83 | Pigot and Company's nation commercial directory. (1835) |
| RADMORE93 | Robinson's Birmingham and Sheffield directory. (1839)
Robson's royal court guide and peerage with the London & Birmingham directory. Volume II. (1840) |
| RADMORE96 | Robson's commercial directory of London and the counties of Cheshire etc. Volume II (1840) |
| RAMSDEN | Ramsden, Charles, London Bookbinders, 1780-1840 (London, 1956) |
| RAMSPROV | Ramsden, Charles, Bookbinders of the United Kingdom (outside London), 1780-1840 (London, 1954) |
| RAMWELL | Ramwell, Julie, 'Joseph and James Harrop of Manchester', in Printing and the Book in Manchester 1700-1850, eds. Cass, Eddie & Garratt, Morris (Otley, 2001), pp71-98 |
| RAVENJ | Raven, James, 'Serial Advertisement in 18th century Britain and Ireland', in Serials and Their Readers 1620-1914, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1993), pp103-122 |
| RAVENJ2 | Raven, James, 'Location, Size and Succession: The Book shops of Paternoster Row before 1800', in The London Book Trade, eds. Myers, Robin; Harris, Michael & Mandelbrote, Giles (London, 2003), pp89-126. |
| RAVENJ3 | Raven, James, 'The Publication of Fiction in Britain and Ireland 1750-70', in Publishing History 24 (1988), pp31-47 |
| RCSUR | Information from Rosanna Cavallo for Surrey, based on:
UBD
PIGOT 1823/4, 1826, 1832 & 1839
Daw's
Court Guide and Directory of Croydon (1849)
Croydon
& Reigate Directory (1850)
Kelly's Post Office
Directory of the Six Home Counties of Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex,
Surrey & Sussex (1845)
New Commercial & General
Directory of the Town of Croydon (John Gray, 1851)
Stationers' Company Memo Book 1794-1807
Notices of printers'
registrations under the Seditious Societies Act 1799 in Surrey County
Record Office, Kingston (ref QE36) |
| REES2 | Rees, Eiluned, 'The Welsh Printing House from 1718-1818', in Six Centuries of the Provincial Book Trade Britain, eds. Isaac, Peter (Winchester, 1990). pp101-124. |
| REES3 | Rees, Eiluned, 'The Welsh Book Trade from 1718 to 1820', in A Nation and its Books: A History of the Book in Wales, Chapter 10. eds. Jones, Philip Henry & Eiluned Rees (1998), pp123-133 |
| REESE | Rees, Eiluned 'Wales and the London Book Trade before 1820' in Spreading the Word: The Distribution Network of Print 1550-1850, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1990). pp1-20 |
| REIP | Royal Exchange Insurance Policies (Guildhall Library) |
| RELEASE | RELEASE |
| RGESS | Information from Richard Goulden for Essex, based on Post Office Directories for 1845 & 1851 |
| RGHFT | Information from Richard Goulden for Hertfordshire based on Post Office Directories for 1845 & 1851 |
| RGMID | Information from Richard Goulden for Middlesex, based on Post Office Directories for 1845 & 1851 |
| RGSUR | RGSUR |
| RGSUS | Information from Richard Goulden for Sussex, based on Post Office
Directories for 1845, 1851 and later, and other sources including:
Bishop, George, A Peep into the Past: Brighton n the Olden
Times (Brighton, 1892) |
| RIDD | Ridd, Thomas, Directory and Guide to Cardiff, Caerphilly and Llandaff (1813) |
| ROBERTSBR | Roberts, Brynsley. R., 'The Revd David Davies: A Victorian Bookbinder', in Studies in the Provincial Book Trade of England, Scotland and Wales before 1900. Papers Presented to the British Book Trade Index Seventh Annual Seminar. ed Stoker, David (University College of Wales, 1990) pp13-32. |
| ROBERTSRJ | Roberts, R.J. 'The Latin Stock (1616-1627) and its Library Contacts', in Libraries and the Book Trade: The Formation of Collections from the 16th and the 20th, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (New Castle, 2000), pp1-14 |
| ROBSON | Robson, William, Commercial Directory, vol.II containing the Country Directory (London, 1839) |
| ROBSONBEDS | Robson, William, Commercial Directory of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire etc (1839) |
| ROBSONBHAM | Robson, William, Commercial Directory of Birmingham & Sheffield (London, 1839) |
| ROGERS | Rogers, Henry A. & Thomas, Sheffield and Rotherham Directory (Sheffield, 1841) |
| ROSE | Richard Rose, 2000. Pembroke People, London: Otterquill |
| ROTHERHAM | Rotherham, Albert and Steele, Maurice, A History of Printing in North Staffordshire (North Staffordshire Polytechnic, 1975) |
| RSLC | RSLC |
| RUDERMAN | RUDERMAN |
| RUMBOLD | Rumbold, Valerie and Iain Fenlon (eds.), A Short-title Catalogue of Music Printed before 1825 in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambridge: CUP, 1992) |
| SANDERSONJ | Sanderson, Jonathan, 'Medical Secrets and the Book Trade: Ownership of the Copy to the College of Physicians' Pharmacopoeia (1618-50)', in The Human Face of the Book Trade: Print Culture and its Creators, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1999), pp65-80 |
| SCHMOLLER | Schmoller, Tanya, Sheffield Papermakers: three centuries of papermaking in the Sheffield area (Wylam, 1992) |
| SCHMOLLERMONT | Schmoller, Tanya, Letters from a Newspaperman in Prison: James Montgomery to John Pye Smith, 1796 (History of the Book Trade in the North, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2002) |
| SCHOLES | Scholes's Manchester & Salford Directory (Manchester, 1797) |
| SCRAGGEVERETT | Scragg, Brenda. J. 'James Everett and the Sale of Adam Clarke's Library, 1833: A Newly Discovered Manuscript', in Light on the Book Trade, eds. McKay, Barry; Hinks, John & Bell, Maureen (New Castle & London, 2004), pp165-174. |
| SCRAGGFORD | Scragg, Brenda. J. 'William Ford: Manchester Bookseller' in The Human Face of the Book Trade: Print Culture and its Creator, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1999) pp155-170. |
| SESSIONS | Sessions, Unspecified |
| SESSIONS/DA | DAVIES |
| SESSIONS/DU | DUFF |
| SESSIONS1 | Sessions, William K. and Margaret, Printing in York from the 1490s to the Present Day (York, 1976) |
| SESSIONS2 | Sessions, William K., A Printer's Dozen: the first British Printing Centres to 1557 after Westminster and London (York, 1983) |
| SESSIONS3 | Sessions, William K., A World of Mischief: The King's Printer – in York in 1642 and in Shrewsbury 1642-1643 (York, 1981) |
| SETT | SETT |
| SFIP | Sun Fire Insurance Policies (Guildhall Library, London) |
| SHAW/GRAY | Shaw, David & Gray, Sarah, 'James Abree (1691?-1768): Canterbury's First 'Modern' Printer', in The Reach of Print: Making, Selling and Using Books, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1998). pp21-36. |
| SHAWDJ | Shaw, David. J. 'Canterbury's External Links: Book Trade Relations at the Regional and National Level in the Eighteenth Century', in The Mighty Engine: The Printing Press and its Impact, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 2000), pp107-119. |
| SHAWDJ2 | Shaw, David. J. 'French Emigres in the London Book Trade to 1850', in The London Book Trade, eds. Myers, Robin; Harris, Michael & Mandelbrote, Giles (London, 2003), pp127-143 |
| SHEETS-PYENSON | Sheets-Pyenson, Susan, 'A Measure of Success: The Publication of Natural History Journals in Early Victorian Britain', in Publishing History IX 1981, pp21-36 |
| SHEPHERD | Information from Hertfordshire from retired librarian |
| SHORTER | Shorter, Alfred H., Paper Mills and Paper Makers in England, 1495-1800 (Hilversum, 1967) |
| SHORTER71 | None |
| SKETCHLEY | Sketchley, Samuel & T., Sheffield Directory, including the Villages in the Neighbourhood (Bristol, [1774]) |
| SLATER 1847 | Slater, Isaac, Slater's Directories of Important English Towns 1847 - Leeds
|
| SLATER47 | Slater, Isaac, Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire &c (Manchester, 1841, 1842, 1847) [Leicester only?] |
| SLATER50 | Slater's Directory (Manchester, 1850). |
| SLATER51 | Slater's Directory of Birmingham, Worcester and the Potteries (Manchester, 1851) |
| SLEDD | Sledd, Hassell. B., 'The '1584' Publication of Henry Constable's 'Diana Augmented'', in Studies in Bibliography 23 (1970), pp146-148 |
| SMITH | Smith, K.J., Warwickshire Apprentices and their Masters 1710-1760 (Dugdale Society Publications, Vol. 29, 1975) |
| SMITHJ | Smith, Jeffrey, 'Books & Culture in late Eighteenth Century and Early Nineteenth Century Newcastle', in The Moving Market: Continuality and Change in the Book Trade, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Oak Knoll, 2001). pp1-12 |
| SOMERS COCKS | Somers Cocks, J.V., Devon Topographical Prints 1660-1870, a catalogue and guide (Exeter, Devon County Library Service, 1977) |
| SOTHEBY | Sotheby auction sales 16 December 1996, lot 114 [billheads, transcribed by David Alexander] |
| SPARKE | Sparke, Archibald, Bibliographia Boltoniensis (Manchester, 1913) |
| SPEAIGHT | Speaight, George, [History of the toy theatre?] |
| SRSMAR | Dunkin, Edwin H.W., Calendar of Sussex Marriage Licences – Archdeaconry of Lewes and Deanery of South Malling (Sussex Record Society, 1917 & 1919) and Archdeaconry of Chichester (Sussex Record Society, 1929) |
| SSM | Spencer Stanhope Muniments (Sheffield Archives) with no. |
| ST/0 | Michael Turner's data on London Stationers' Company Apprentices before 1605, based on Arber's Transcript reconciled with Prof. J.A. Lavin's work |
| ST/1 | Michael Turner's London Book Trades data 1605-1640, from McKenzie, D.F., Stationers' Company Apprentices 1605-40 (Charlottesville, 1961) |
| ST/2 | Michael Turner's London Book Trades data 1641-1700, from McKenzie, D.F., Stationers' Company Apprentices 1641-1700 (Oxford, 1974) |
| ST/3 | Michael Turner's London Book Trades data 1701-1800, from McKenzie, D.F., Stationers' Company Apprentices 1701-1800 (Oxford, 1978) |
| ST/4 | Michael Turner's London Book Trades data 1801-1830, based on his work on the Company archive |
| ST/A | Additional Michael Turner London Book Trades data, from McKenzie, D.F., Stationers' Company Apprentices(Oxford) |
| STA-CRO | Staffordshire County Record Office |
| STACY/EXCISE | STACY/EXCISE |
| STC | Pollard, A.W. and Redgrave, G.R., A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640, 2nd ed. revised and enlarged, 3 vols. (London 1986, 1976, 1991), esp. vol. 3 |
| STEWART-BROWN | STEWART-BROWN |
| STIRK | Stirk, Jean, 'Role of women in papermaking: an introduction', British Association of Paper Historians Quarterly, 24 (Nov. 1997), pp.1-8 |
| STOCKHAM | Stockham, Peter, Lichfield Booksellers, leaflet (Lichfield, ?1993) |
| STOKER | Stoker, David, 'The Norwich book trades before 1800', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 8 (1981), pp.79-125 plus further records contributed by David Stoker |
| STOKER2 | Stoker, David, 'The Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue and provincial imprints', Journal of Printing Historical Society, 24 (1995), pp.9-35 |
| STOKER3 | Stoker, David 'The Ill-Gotten Library of 'Honest Tom Martin'' in Property of a Gentleman: The Formation, Organisation and Dispersal of the Private Library 1620-1920, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1991) pp91-111. |
| STOKER4 | Stoker, David, 'Printing at the Red-Well: An Early Norwich press through the eyes of Contemporaries', in The Mighty Engine: The Printing Press and its Impact, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 2000), pp97-106 |
| STOKER5 | Stoker, David, 'The English Country Book Trades in 1784-5', in The Human Face of the Book Trade: Print Culture and its Creator, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 1999), pp13-27 |
| STOKER6 | Stoker, David, 'Freeman & Susannah Collins and the spread of English Provincial Printing', in Light on the Book Trade: Essays in Honour of Peter Isaac, eds. McKay, Barry; Hinks, John & Bell, Maureen (New Castle & London, 2004), pp27-36 |
| STOKER7 | Stoker, David, 'The Regulation of the Book Trade in Norwich 1500-1800', in Publishing History V (1979), pp127-141 |
| STOKER8 | Stoker, David, 'Prosperity and Success in the 18th Century English Provincial Book Trade: The Firm of William Chase & co', in Publishing History 30 (1991), pp31-88 |
| STOKERLYNN | Stoker, David, 'The Early Booksellers & Printers of King's Lynn' in Studies in the Provincial Book Trade of England, Scotland and Wales Before 1900. Papers Presented to the British Book Trade Index Seventh Annual Seminar 1989, ed. Stoker, David (University College of Wales, 1990), pp76-105. |
| STOKERN | David Stoker's notes on Norfolk |
| STOKERP | Papermaking |
| STUART | Stuart, Denis (ed.), People of the Potteries (Keele, 1985) |
| SUF-CRO(B) | Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds |
| SUS-CRO | East Sussex County Record Office, Register of Printing Presses (ref QDS/1/EW1) |
| SUTHERLAND | Sutherland, John, 'Henry Colburn: Publisher', in Publishing History 19 (1986), pp59-84 |
| SWAIM | Swaim, Elizabeth. A., 'The Auction as a Means of Book Distribution in Eighteenth Century Yorkshire', in Publishing History I (1977), pp 49-91 |
| TAYLOR | Taylor, Norman, 'Derbyshire printing and printers before 1800', Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 70 (1950) |
| THOMAS | Thomas, Sidney, 'The Printing of 'Greenes Groatsworth of Witte and Kind-Harts Dreame'', in Studies in Bibliography 19 (1966), pp196-7 |
| THOMPSON1 | Thomspon, James, The History of Leicester from the Time of the Romans to the end of the Seventeenth Century (1849) |
| THOMPSON2 | Thompson, James, The History of Leicester in the Eighteenth Century (1871) |
| THOROGOODP | Thorogood, Peter, 'Thomas Hood: A Nineteenth Century Author and his Relations with the Booktrade to 1835', in Development of the English Book Trade 1700-1899, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1981) |
| TODD | Todd, William B., A Directory of printers and Others in Allied Trades: London and Vicinity, 1800-1840 (London, 1972) |
| TODDWALL | Todd, William B. and Wallis, Peter J., 'Provincial booksellers c1744: the Harleian Miscellany subscription list', The Library, 5th series, 29 (1974), pp.422-40 |
| TOLSEY7 | Harley, Basil & Holmes, R.T., Paper Making in Little Barrington (Tolsey Paper No.7, Tolsey Museum, Burford) |
| TOOLEY | Tooley, Ronald Vere, Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers (Tring, 1979) |
| TOPHAM | Topham, Jonathan R., 'Two centuries of Cambridge publishing and bookselling: a brief history of Deighton Bell & Co., 1778-1998', Trans. Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 11.3 (1998), 350-403 |
| TREADWELL3 | Treadwell, Michael, 'Swift's Relations with the London Book Trade to 1714', in Author/Publisher Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1983), pp1-36 |
| TREADWELL4 | Treadwell, Michael, 'London Printers and Printing Houses in 1705', in Publishing History VII (1980), pp5-44 |
| TREADWELL5 | Treadwell, Michael, 'Richard Lapthorne and the London Retail Book Trade, 1685-1697', in The Book Trade and its Customers 1450-1900: Historical Essays for Robin Myers, eds. Hunt, Arnold, Giles Mandelbrote & Alison Shell (Winchester, 1997), pp205-222 |
| TREADWELLM | Treadwell, Michael, 'Lists of Master Printers: The Size of the London Printing Trade, 1637-1723', in Aspects of Printing, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1987), 141-170. |
| TREADWELLM2 | Treadwell, Michael, 'On False and Misleading Imprints in the London Book Trade, 1660-1750', in Fakes & Frauds: Varieties of Deception in Print and Manuscripts, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1989), pp29-46 |
| TS | Information from Tanya Schmoller for Yorkshire, based on Directories
as follows:
BAILEY 1781
BAINES 1822/3
BLACKWELL 1828
BROWNELL 1817
GALES & MARTIN
1787
GELL 1825
GELL & BENNETT 1821
GLOVER 1827-9
PIGOT 1818, 1828/9, 1830, 1834, 1835, 1837,
1841
John ROBINSON 1797
ROBSON 1839
ROGERS 1841
SKETCHLEY 1774
WARDLE & BENTHAM
1814-15
WHITE 1833, 1834, 1837/8, 1841, 1845 and 1849
FREEMANTLE
UBD
SFIP
LP
Cem
York Poll Books 1741, 1758, 1774, 1784
|
| TSDER | Information frm Tanya Schmoller for Derbyshire, based on Directories
as follows:
BAGSHAW 1846
BAILEY 1781-4
BREEVER 1823/4
GLOVER 1827/9, 1843, 1845, 1849, 1850
PIGOT 1820, 1821/2/3, 1828, 1831, 1835, 1842
POST
OFFICE 1848
WHITE 1833, 1841, 1845
Card index of printers in Derby Local History Library (marked CI)
TAYLOR
UBD |
| TSUSHIMAJ | Tsushima, Jean, 'Members of the Stationers' Company who served in the Artillery Company before the Civil War: Ralph Mabbe and his Network', in The Stationers' Company and the Book Trade 1550-1990, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1997), pp65-92. |
| TWYMAN | Twyman, Michael, A Directory of London Lithographic Printers, 1800-1850 (London, 1976) |
| TWYMAN2 | Twyman, Michael, Lithography 1800-1850 (London, 1970) |
| TWYMAN3 | Twyman, Michael, Printing 1770-1970 (London, 1970) |
| TWYMANM | Twyman, Michael, 'The Emergence of the Graphic Book in the Nineteenth Century', in A Millennium of Book Production, Design and Illustration in Manuscript and Print 900-1900, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1994). pp135-180. |
| TYACKE | Tyacke, Sarah, London Map-sellers 1660-1720 (Tring, 1978) |
| TYACKES | Tyacke, Sarah, 'Samuel Pepys as Map Collector', in Maps and Prints: Aspects of the English Booktrade, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Oxford, 1984), pp1-29 |
| UBD | Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce & Manufacture (1791/98) |
| UNDERHILL | Triennial Directory of London, Westminster, Southwark, and ten miles distant, for the years 1817, 1818, 1819, 10th ed. (London: T. Underhill, [1817]) |
| Univ | Univ - Leicester data |
| VANARSDEL | VanArsdel, Rosemary T. 'The Westminster Review: Change of Editorship 1840', in Studies in Bibliography 25 (1972), pp191-204 |
| VAULBERT | Vaulbert de Chantilly, Marc, 'Property of a Distinguished Poisoner: Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and the Griffiths Family Library', in Under the Hammer: Book Auctions since the Seventeenth Century London, eds. Myers, Robin, Harris, Michael & Mandelbrote, Giles (London, 2001), pp111-142 |
| VCH-LEI | Victoria County History of Leicestershire (with vol. & p. no.) |
| VERRAL | VERRAL |
| VHBBirm | The Visitor's Hand Book through the Manufactories of Birmingham, 2nd edition (Birmingham: William Cornish, 1851) |
| VP | Information from Vivienne Painting |
| W & B | Wakeman, Geoffrey and Bridson, Gavin D.R., A Guide to Nineteenth Century Colour Printers (Loughborough, 1975) |
| WA/1841 & 1851 | Information from Wendy Atkin for Sleaford, based on:
1841 & 1851 Census returns (Sleaford HO107/622 & 2100) |
| WA/HOLDEN11 | Information from Wendy Atkin for Sleaford, based on:
HOLDEN ?1811 |
| WA/IGI | Information from Wendy Atkin for Sleaford, based on:
International Genealogical Index |
| WA/LRSM | Information from Wendy Atkin for Sleaford, based on:
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury |
| WA/MISC | Information from Wendy Atkin for Sleaford, Unspecified |
| WA/NSPR | Information from Wendy Atkin for Sleaford, based on:
New Sleaford Parish Register |
| WA/OLNEY | Information from Wendy Atkin for Sleaford, based on:
Olney, R.J., Rural Society and County Government in Nineteenth
Century Lincolnshire (History of Lincolnshire Committee, 1979) |
| WA/PIGOT22 | Information from Wendy Atkin for Sleaford, based on:
PIGOT ?1822 |
| WA/POLL23 | Information from Wendy Atkin for Sleaford, based on:
Poll Book of Kesteven, Lincolnshire, 1823 |
| WA/PROVCHAP | Information from Wendy Atkin for Sleaford, based on:
Providence (Independent) Chapel Births & Baptisms 1814-1840 (Lincolnshire
Archives MF2/75) |
| WA/QOSPR | Information from Wendy Atkin for Sleaford, based on:
Quarrington & Old Sleaford Parish |
| WA/SLATER51 | Information from Wendy Atkin for Sleaford, based on:
PIGOT ?1851 |
| WA/UBD | Information from Wendy Atkin for Sleaford, based on:
UBD |
| WA/WHITE26 | Information from Wendy Atkin for Sleaford, based on:
William White & Co, History & Directory of the County of Lincolnshire
(Leeds: Baines, 1826) |
| WAKEMAN | Information from Frances Wakeman on papermills in Oxfordshire |
| WALDER | Wallis, Alfred, 'A sketch of the early history of the printing press in Derbyshire', Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological & Natural History Society (1881), pp.137-56 |
| WALLIS | Wallis, P.J., The Book Trade in Northumberland and Durham to 1860: a supplement to C J Hunt's Biographical Dictionary (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981) |
| WALLISPJ | Wallis, P.J. 'Cross-Regional Connexions' in Six Centuries of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain, ed. Isaac, Peter (Winchester, 1990). pp87-100. |
| WAR-CRO | Warwickshire Record Office |
| WARDLE & BENTHAM | Commercial Directory for 1814-15 (Manchester: M. Wardle & Bentham, 1814) |
| WARE | Account books of John Ware & Son of Whitehaven (CUM-CRO) |
| WARRINGTON | Warrington, Bernard, 'William Pickering and the Development of Publishers' Binding in the Early Nineteenth Century', in Publishing History 33 (1993), pp59-76 |
| WARWICKS1830 | History, Topography and Directory of Warwickshire 1830
(Birmingham: W. M. West) |
| WATSON | WATSON |
| WATTT | Watt, Tessa 'Publisher, Pedlar, Pot-Poet: The Changing Character of the Broadside Trade 1550-1640' in Spreading the Word: The Distribution Network of Print 1550-1850, eds. Myers, Robin & Harris, Michael (Winchester, 1990). pp61-81 |
| WESTON | Weston, Richard, The Leicester Directory (Loughborough, 1794) |
| WHITE | White, William, History & General Directory of Sheffield… (Sheffield, 1833, 1841, 1845, 1849) |
| WHITE 1829 | White, William, History, Directory & Gazetteer of Cumberland & Westmoreland (Leeds, 1829) |
| WHITE EM | White, Edmund M, 'Thackeray's Contributions to 'Fraser's Magazine'', in Studies in Bibliography 19 (1966) pp67-84 |
| WING | Wing, Donald, Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641-1702, 2nd ed. (New York, 1972-88) |
| WLA | WLA |
| WOODR | Wood, Robert, The Victorian Provincial Printer and the Stage (Newcastle Imprint Club, 1972) |
| WOODRUFF | Woodruff, James. F., 'The Background and Significance of the 'Rambler's' Format' in Publishing History IV (1978), pp113-133 |
| WORJ | Worcester Journal |
| WORTH | Worth, R.N., 'Notes on the history of printing in Devon', Trans. Devonshire Association (1879), pp.497-515 |
| WYKET | Wyke, Terry, 'Publishing and Reading Books etc in Nineteenth Century-Manchester', in Printing and the Book in Manchester 1700-1850, eds. Cass, Eddie & Garratt, Morris (Otley, 2001), pp29-49 |
|