The BRITISH BOOK TRADE INDEX (BBTI) is an index of the names and brief biographical details and trade details of people who worked in the book trade in England and Wales and who were trading by 1851. The National Library of Scotland maintains a separate Scottish Book Trade Index.

BBTI data - which are derived in part from published sources but are primarily the contributions of many local researchers - vary to some extent depending on which areas have been researched, the scope and nature of that research and, of course, the survival rate and quality of local primary evidence for book-trade activity.

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The latest issue of our bulletin, Quadrat, published Summer 2009 is here.

  PRINT NETWORKS CONFERENCES

  THE BOOK TRADE IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN
SHAKESPEARE INSTITUTE, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
6-8 July 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

A report on the conference held in Cambridge, July 2009 
is available here.

                                                                      

• A brief history of BBTI
• Sources of data
• Scope of BBTI

• Aims of the development project
• BBTI at the University of Birmingham
• The long-term future