Foreword
      Tim Rix
The British Book Trade Index: its genesis and recent history
      Peter Isaac
The Haberdashers’ Company of Hereford v James Wilde
      John Buchanan-Brown
Kent Book-Trade Directory, 1840-1900: progress report, June 1994
      Richard Goulden

Printed and Sold by G Nicholson
      Audrey Cooper
Genealogy and Book-Trade Directories
      Richard Goulden
An Ulverston Bookseller’s Bank Book
      Peter Isaac

The Book Trade and Developments in Medical Thought
      Anne Hargreaves
Mary Tyson, Bookseller of Ulverston: her place in the descent of the Soulby business
      Barry McKay
Thomas Bock (c1790-1855), Engraver, Artist and Convict.
      Wendy Atkin

Books Enchained
      Roy Shipperbottom
Thomas Smith, Baptist Pastor and Printer
      Paul Morgan
Spread of Printing from 1476 to 1695
      William K Sessions
The Daybooks of John Ware of Whitehaven
      Barry McKay
Kent Book-Trade Directory up to 1900: progress
      Richard Goulden

Beyond BBTI & ESTC with the Stamford Mercury
      Jim English
The Scottish Book Trade Index
      John Morris
The Quadrupeds that Never Were
      Peter Isaac
Fourteenth Seminar on the Provincial Book Trade

Some Late Seventeenth-Century Book-Trade Activities
      A S Hargreaves
Thomas Smith, Baptist Pastor and Printer: an Addendum
      Paul Morgan
Spread of Prinitng from 1476 to 1695: Progress Report
      William K Sessions
William Davison in Name Only?
      Peter Isaac
Fifteenth Seminar on the British Book Trade

Bibliography in the Seventeenth Century
      John Buchanan-Brown
BBTI – a Plea for Assistance
      Peter Isaac
Joshua Drewry of Stafford
      Peter Hanks
Thomas Slack, 1723?-1784
      Peter Isaac

British Book-Trade Seminar, 1998
      Barry McKay
Parish Records and Inn Bills – a brief note
      R J Goulden
Mrs Gray’s Circulating Library, Manchester
      Brenda Scragg
The Baring-Gould Heritage Project
      Ian Maxted
Literary Fiction as a Mirror of the Times
      Rolf Loeber & Magda Stouthamer-Loeber
Mentmore Library
      Jane Francis
John Jackson I & II
      William Sessions

The Eyres Press – the First Decade
      P O’Brien
The Merchant’s House, Marlborough: the Printing Years
      Michael Gray & Lorelei Williams
Research in Progress: the Book Trades of Leicester
      John Hinks
The Scottish Book-Trade Index
      John Morris
Bookbinding by a Saddler
      John Bleach

The British Book Trade at the Grolier Club Library
      Michael North
A Newcastle Bookbinder Establishes a Toronto Company
      D J Fader
The Apprentice and his Master: the early Years of William Parks and Stephen Bryan
      Margaret Cooper
A Real Printing ‘Ghost’ of 1916
      William K Sessions
Seventeenth Seminar on the British Book Trade
      Stacey Gee

A Tentative Enquiry into the Identity of ‘A Printer’s Devil’
      Jim English
John Thomlinson of Wigton, Bookseller and Illegal Importer of Books
      Barry McKay
Provincial Editions of the Book of Common Prayer
      Jim English
George Edmonds of Birmingham and the Book Trade
      Paul Morgan

The Cuz’s Chorus: or, a Little Piece of Book-Trade Nonsense
      David Hounslow
Report of Eighteenth Seminar on the British Book Trade
      Lisa Peters
The Mobility of the Early Printing press
      William K Sessions
Western Evening Herald
      James B Paterson
How Did They Get Together? Thoughts on some Provincial Imprints
      Jim English
Unofficial Prayer Books
      David Griffiths

More Unofficial Prayer Books
      David Griffiths
Press for Reform
Dating the Appleby Bell-Ringers’ Orders
      Barry McKay
‘Dyvers Papisticall Books…’ – A Preliminary Note on Pedlars of Recusant Literature in Seventeenth-Century Leicester
      John Hinks
The Disgraceful Compositor
      Barry McKay

Patrick Walker, Covenanter and Chapman
      John Morris
Nineteenth Annual Seminar on the British Book Trade
      Barry McKay

Eight Days for a Publisher’s Managing Clerk
      Peter Isaac
Reading and the Circulating Library: Evidence from the Diaries of Charlotte Francis (1798-1870)
      Stephen Colclough
John Ridgill Trout (1817-1849): Printer and Librarian of Bradford
      Edwin Trout
The Use of the Long ‘s’ in Britain: a note
      Paul Morgan

Brighton Circulating Libraries – an inside view
      Henry Smith
An Early List of Provincial Booksellers
      David Stoker
A Careful Printer and his Ink
      Peter Isaac
The British Book Trade Index

Issue 17 - Autumn 2003

Special issue on the 'BBTI on the Web' project
       Maureen Bell, John Hinks, Mike Parry, and others
Reading in the Scilly Isles, circa 1739
      David Stoker

Issue 18 - January 2005

The British Book Trade Index: a progress report
      John Hinks
Progress report on the Print Networks series of books
      Catherine Armstrong
Claims for books lost in the 1864 Sheffield flood
      Tanya Schmoller
Supplementary bibliography of Thomas Haydock
      Brenda Scragg