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Statutes relating to printing in England and the activities of the Stationers' Company.

Minutes of Livery Committee meetings; all minutes are signed from 23 Apr 1920-29 May 1931 and most are signed from 20 Jul 1931-23 Jan 1964; all minutes are typescript from 17 Aug 1922 onwards.

Livery Committee annual reports and agendas for Livery Committee annual general meetings and special meetings.

Additional information relating to the Committee is included:

1931-1940: names of Committee members.

1931-1940: names of livery representatives on the Court from 1926 onwards.

1931-1939: notes regarding entry of Stationers' Company School pupils into company crafts.

1931-1939: notices of Stationers' Company and Printing Industry Technical Board Craft Lectures.

1932-1939: names of chairmen of the Committee from 1920 onwards.

1934-1939: notes regarding the Old Boys' Association.

Livery Committee and Sub-Committee minutes, agendas, correspondence, proposals, attendance lists, memoranda, copy accounts and reports.

Notices sent out primarily by the Beadle inviting Company members to undertake a variety of duties, including meeting with stock keepers, holding courts of assistants, forming pension courts, electing the Master and Wardens, electing renter wardens and Company officials, auditing the renter warden's and the Master and Wardens' accounts, disposing Cater's charity, choosing the Treasurer and stock keepers, paying or receiving English Stock dividends, receiving stockholder quarterages, electing the Lord Mayor and City of London officials, hearing Ash Wednesday sermons at St Austin's and explaining why they refused to take the office of renter warden; summonses are printed with manuscript dates and further details; some summonses are endorsed with the names of those to whom they were to be sent.

Annual lists of the Master, Wardens, Assistants and Livery of the Company. Livery lists 1721-1961 are printed as broadsheets, giving full names and total number of members; names are arranged chronologically by period of admission to the cloathing, 1736-1765, and by year from 1833. From 1787, the lists are also printed as pamphlets, and this is the format that continues into the 21st century. Later pamphlets contain additional information regarding the Company, including details of fees, committee members, pensions and gifts administered by the Court, governing body of Stationers' Company School and obituaries; many pamplets contain contemporary handwritten annotations. Pamphlets to 1962 are dated at end of the company year; pamphlets from 1962 are dated from start of company year.

Lists of liverymen entitled to vote in Common Hall, the annual assembly of the livery at which the Livery Committee members and Livery Representatives to the Court are elected.

Annual lists of liverymen entitled to vote for City of London Members of Parliament, produced pursuant to the Parliamentary Voters Registration Act 1843.

Register of admission into the livery, 1606-1736, and annual livery lists, 1742-1853.

Registers containing names of apprentices and their masters, father's place of origin and occupation, terms of service and consideration [payment] paid, arranged in chronological order by date of binding or turnover; entries in volumes 3-5 name the payers of considerations. A list of apprentices bound, 17 Jul 1576-25 Jul 1605 can be found in Liber B: Clerk's memorandum book, TSC/F/02/01.

Twentieth-century registers listing names of apprentices; also include names of masters.