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ABBATTISTA Abbattista, Guido, 'The Business of Paternoster Row: Towards a Pulishing History of the 'Universal History' (1736-65)', in Publishing History XVII (1985) pp5-50
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, 5ser., 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), pp107-133.
ALSTON Alston, Robin, 'The British Book Trade 1701 to 1800', in Publishing History 16 (1984), pp43-86
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 Sloan 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 Davies, York Freemen and Fabric Rolls of York Minster (give full refs)
BARNARD/BELL Barnard, John & Bell, Maureen, 'The Inventory of Henry Bynneman (1583)', in Publishing History 29 (1991), pp5-46
BARNARDJ Barnard, John, 'Some Features of the Stationers' Company and its Stock in 1676/7', in Publishing History 36 (1994), pp5-38
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), pp278-316
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.
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)
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.
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
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)
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)
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)
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
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
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