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Records created and accumulated by Samuel Bentley (1785-1868)

The Company's historic records date from 1554 to the present day. Consulted by scholars since the mid-eighteenth century, they are a key archival source for the history of the English book trade and the development of copyright; the evolution of London livery companies and corporate London; and the social history of the city. Records held in the Stationers' Company Archive include:

• Stationers' Company Registers or Entry Book of Copies 1554-1842. (Copyright records for the period 1842-1924 are deposited at the National Archives. Further information about them is available at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk)

• Court Books, 1602 to the present day

• Membership records, 1555 to the present day

• Legal and official records, from 1557

• Records relating to bequests, charities and pensions, 1593 to 1929

• Records relating to property owned by the Company from 1674

• Financial records, from 1605

• English Stock records 1603-1961

• A small collection of family papers belonging to former members of the Company, such as the Tottell papers (1448-1714) and the Baskett papers (1740s-1840s)

• Miscellaneous ephemera which includes invitation cards, programmes, etc