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Entries of copies are dated 28 Apr 1710-25 Sep 1746; information given includes name and signature of property owner, share (usually the 'whole', sometimes 'a moiety', etc), title of work, often name of author, amount paid (usually 6d per title) and frequently number of copies [ie of the work] received; until Apr 1725 most entries are annotated 'New' or 'Old'; there are no cross references in the margins; with integral index by property owner (see Copies field below for later index)

At the top of the first page is written 'A Register of the Copies of Books beginning the 10th of Aprill 1710, Pursuant to an Act of Parliament Anno Octavo Regine Anne Entitled An Act for the Encouragment of Learning by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copy dureing the Times therein Mentioned. Mr William Phillips, Master, Mr Thomas Hodgkin, Mr John Basket, Wardens'.

A pencil note on the front fly leaf reads 'For April 10-29 1729 (including R. Mount's navigation books) see end of 1682-95 volume'.

Inserted are:

pages 379-380: letter to Mr Simpson [Thomas Simpson Junior, Treasurer, 1734-1755] at Stationers Hall from John Darby enclosing 'nine of Hibernicus's Letters, as printed in the Dublin Journal, which I enter'd in the Hall-book, I think, about a year or two ago', 26 Apr 1729.

pages 428-429: correction to an entry on page 313.

pages 454-455: letter to Mr Simpson from Bernard Linton requesting that he 'enter the property of this first volume of Mr Popes Works in my name till Mr Tonson can clear up his right to Mr Popes satisfaction', 22 Jan 1735.

pages 470-471: letter to Mr Simpson from B Motte requesting he be given notice if 'the Tracts of Scriblerus come to be enter'd in the Hall Book', 6 May 1737.

Significant entries of copies include:

page 242: [John Arbuthnot, John Gay, and Alexander Pope's] Three Hours After Marriage, entered for Bernard Lintot, 19 Jan 1716.

page 278: [Daniel Defoe's] Robinson Crusoe, entered for William Taylor ('written by himself'), 3 Aug 1720.

page 344: Gulliver's Travels, entered for Benjamin Motte, 29 Nov 1726.

page 402: [Henry Fielding's] The Author's Farce and the Pleasures of the Town, entered for John Watts, 10 Apr 1730.

page 409: [Henry Fielding's] Rape Upon Rape, entered for John Watts, 23 Jul 1730.

page 418: [Henry Fielding's] The Letter Writers or a New Way to Keep a Wife at Home, entered for John Watts, 12 Apr 1731.

page 418: [Henry Fielding's] The Tragedy of Tragedies or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, entered for John Watts, 12 Apr 1731.

page 422: Henry Fielding's The Modern Husband, entered for John Watts, 22 Feb 1732.

page 533: Samuel Richardson's Pamela volumes 1-2, entered for Samuel Richardson, Charles Rivington and John Osborn, 4 Nov 1740.

page 547: Samuel Richardson's Pamela volumes 3-4, entered for Samuel Richardson, 30 Nov 1741.

Entries of copies are dated 2 Oct 1746-30 Dec 1773; information given includes name (not address) of property owner and until May 1770 sometimes signature of property owner, share (usually the 'whole'), title of work, often name of author, amount paid (usually 6d per title), number of copies [ie of the work] (usually nine) received, and from Jul 1755 initials of official ('RH' [R Horsfield, see page 259] until Dec 1765, thereafter 'GH'); with integral index by property owner, and separate index arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Canin's Poems. (See Copies field below for later index).

At the top of the first page is written 'A Register of the Copies of Books beginning the 29th day of September 1746 pursuant to an Act of Parliament in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne Entituled an Act for the Encouragement of Learning by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the authors or Purchasers of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned. Mr Thomas Brewer, Master; Mr Thomas Ridge, Stephen Theodore Janssen Esq, Wardens'.

16 pages at the rear of the volume are blank.

On front fly leaf is a pencil note in a 20th-century hand: 'Dr Johnson's Dictionary p 154 Vol II'.

Inserted are:

pages 124-125: running account by Messrs Mount & Page [of copies ordered?]. On reverse [totals?] alongside names: Robinson & Dodsley; The Editor; and Blackwell .

pages 134-135: note which reads 'A Sermon preached at Pinners Hall, on occasion of the Death of the Late Reverend James Foster DD. Who departed this life Nov 5 1753. With memoirs of his Life and Character By Caleb Fleming. Entered by John Payne and Robert Whitworth', undated

pages 150-151: letter from John Swinton junior to Mr Alexander Kincaid and Company, booksellers in Edinburgh, authorising the transfer of a book entitled An Abridgement of the Public Statutes in Force and Use relative to Scotland from the Union [...], with a note 'This to be given into Stationers Hall with the Book', 24 Jan 1755.

Significant entries include:

page 55: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, entered for Andrew Millar, 3 Feb 1748.

page 132: Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison vols 1-2, entered for himself, 1 Oct 1753.

page 134: Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison vols 3-4, entered for himself, 7 Nov 1753.

page 136: Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison vol 5, entered for himself, 5 Dec 1753.

page 139: Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison vol 6, entered for himself, 11 Mar 1754.

page 154: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, entered for J & S Knapton, T & T Longman, C Hitch and L Hawes, A Miller and R & J Dodsley, 10 Apr 1755.

page 293: Horace Walpole's Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard III, entered for J Dodsley, 2 Feb 1768.

page 294: [Laurence Sterne's] A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, entered for J Becket and PA Dehoudt, 27 Feb 1768.

page 335: Oliver Goldsmith's The Defeated Village, entered for himself, 26 May 1770.

page 375: Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, entered for Francis Newbery, 26 Mar 1773.

page 380: Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral, entered for A Bell, 10 Sep 1773.

Entries of copies are dated 3 Jan 1774-28 Aug 1786; information given includes name and occasionally address (but not signature) of property owner, share (usually the 'whole'), title of work, usually name and sometimes occupation/position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] (usually nine) received, and initials or signature of official (GH until Jan 1780, J Wilkie until Aug 1785, then Robert Horsfield); until 10 Jun 1785 the amount paid (usually 6d per title) is included; occasional annotations record that a certificate was subsequently issued and date of issue (eg page 236a an annotation of 1786, and on page 233b an annotation of 1797); integral index by property owner, and two separate indexes (1774-1783 and 1783-1786) arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Giardini's Six Quartets indexed under 'G'.

A note in ink on a front fly leaf reads 'The above written is a true Copy of an Entry in the Register Book of the Company of Stationers kept at the Hall of the said Company. Witness my hand this day of 17___ J B Clerk to the Company of Stationers' [possibly the required wording for the issue of certificates].

At the top of a later front fly leaf is written 'A Register of the Copies of Books beginning the 1st day of January 1774 pursuant to an Act of Parliament in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne Entitled an Act for the Encouragment of Learning by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned. Mr John Beecroft, Master; Richard Walkden, William Strahan Edq, Wardens'.

Inserted at pages 75-76 is a note of owners and their shares in Young's Night Thoughts (the title is entered on page 76), undated.

Significant entries include:

page 51: Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 14 Feb 1776.

page 53: Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 7 Mar 1776.

page 76: Edward Young's Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, entered for T & F Rivington, William Johnston, T Longman, E & C Dilly, T Cadell, W Otridge and T Dodley, 1 Mar 1777.

page 104: The Old English Baron

page 129: [Frances Burney's] Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, entered for T Lownds, 18 Feb 1779.

Entries of copies are dated 1 Sep 1786-31 May 1792; information given includes name (but not address or signature) of property owner, share (usually the 'whole'), title of work, usually name and sometimes occupation/position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually nine), and initials or signature of official (Robert Horsfield); the amount paid is not recorded; marginal annotations record when certificates were subsequently issued and date of issue, mostly in the same year but some as late as 1802; a marginal note on page 473 refers to an omission which is entered later in the volume; with integral index by property owner, and separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Dixon's Four Services in Score indexed under 'D'.

A note in ink on the front fly leaf reads 'The above written is a true Copy of an Entry in the Register Book of the Company of Stationers kept at the Hall of the said Company. Witness my hand this day of 17___ J B Clerk of the Company of Stationers' [possibly the required wording for the issue of certificates].

Inserted are:

at pages 99-100 a letter from Benjamin Matthews to Mr Fuller, Bookseller, Ave Maria Lane, which reads 'Pray be so good as to enter the Sermon in the Stationers Hall Book as follows: The Property of Benjamin Matthews Bookseller of Bath In trust for a Child who is a Cripple', dated 'Saturday morning 19th Inst'.

at pages 253-254 a note, 'Thoughts on General and Partial Inoculations. The Property of The Honorable Baron Thomas Dimsdale one third, Thomas Carnan one third, Francis Newbery Junior one third', undated.

Significant entries include:

page 196: Wolfgang Mozart's Trio for Pianoforte, entered for Longman and Broderip, 3 Dec 1788.

page 224: 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African', entered for the author, 25 Mar 1789.

page 383: Thomas Paine's 'Rights of Man, being an answer to Mr Burke's attack on the French Revolution', entered for the author, 19 Feb 1791.

page 425: John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, entered for Mary Luckman, 15 Jul 1791.

page 456: Joseph Haydn's 'A Grand Overture as performed at Mr Salomons Concert Hanover Square', entered for Longman and Broderip, 30 Nov 1791.

page 470: Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman', entered for the author, 20 Jan 1792.

page 478: Thomas Paine's 'The Rights of Man part the Second Combining Principle and Practice', entered for the author, 13 Feb 1792.

Entries of copies are dated 1 Jun 1792-31 Aug 1795; information given includes name (but not address or signature) of property owner, share (usually the 'whole'), title of work, often name and sometimes occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually nine), and signature of official (Robert Horsfield); the amount paid is not recorded; marginal annotations record when certificates were subsequently issued and date of issue, mostly in the same year; a marginal note on page 125

records the surrender of a claim on a work, 15 May 1797; with integral index by property owner, and separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Emerson on City Laws indexed under 'E'.

A note in ink on the front fly leaf reads 'The above written is a true Copy of an Entry in the Register Book of the Company of Stationers kept at the Hall of the said Company. Witness my hand this day of 17___ J B Clerk of the Company of Stationers' [possibly the required wording for the issue of certificates].

page 30: Muzio Clementi's Sonata for the Piano Forte, and a famous Toccata for the Harpsichord or the Piano Forte, Opus 11, entered for Joseph Dale, 21 Sep 1792.

page 53: Thomas Augustine Arne's New Edition of Artaxerxes. A Serious Opera, entered for Joseph Dale, 26 Nov 1792.

page 79: Muzio Clementi's Three Sonatas for the Piano Forte with accompaniments for a violin and violoncello, Opus 29, entered for Joseph Dale, 24 Jan 1793.

page 135: Muzio Clementi's Three Sonatas for the Piano Forte with accompanyments for a flute and violoncello ad libitum, Opus 32, entered for Preston and Son, 5 Jun 1793.

page 215: Joseph Haydn's A Favourite Overture in all its part, entered for William Forster, 13 Jan 1794.

page 215: Joseph Haydn's Three Sonatas for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte with an accompaniment for a violin and violoncello, Opus 40, entered for William Forster, 13 Jan 1794.

page 216: Joseph Haydn's Three Sonatas for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte with an accompaniment for a violin and violoncello, Opus 42, entered for William Forster, 13 Jan 1794.

page 299: Muzio Clementi's Three Sonatas for the Piano Forte, entered for Longman and Broderip, 3 Jun 1794.

Entries of copies are dated 1 Jun 1792-31 Aug 1795; information given includes name (but not address or signature) of property owner, share (usually the 'whole'), title of work, often name and sometimes occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually nine), and signature of the Treasurer of the English Stock (Robert Horsfield until Jan 1797, followed by a period with no signature, then from Oct 1797 George Greenhill); the amount paid is not recorded; marginal annotations record when certificates were subsequently issued and date of issue, mostly in the same year; a marginal note on page 35 records a correction to the name of an owner entered in error; with integral index by property owner, and separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Ash's Grammatical Institutes indexed under 'A'.

A note in ink on the front fly leaf reads 'The above written is a true Copy of an Entry in the Register Book of the Company of Stationers kept at the Hall of the said Company. Witness my hand this day of 17___ J B Clerk of the Company of Stationers' [possibly the required wording for the issue of certificates].

Significant entries include:

page 101: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poems, entered for Joseph Cottle, 14 Apr 1796.

page 202: Ann Radcliffe's The Italian, entered for T Cadell Junior, W Davies and Ann Radcliffe, 9 Dec 1796.

Entries of copies are dated 29 Apr 1799-30 Apr 1806; information given includes name (but not address or signature) of property owner, share (usually the 'whole'), title of work, usually name and sometimes occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually nine up to 24 Aug 1801, thereafter eleven copies), and signature of official (George Greenhill); marginal annotations record when certificates were subsequently issued and date of issue, mostly in the same year; with integral index by property owner, and separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Allen's Table of Tolls indexed under 'A'.

Inserted at pages 146-147 is a list of four works by Piozzi, Walker, Albin and Dennis, copied from entries dated 1801 on those pages, undated.

Significant entries include:

page 64: Ludwig van Beethoven's Canzonetta for the Pianoforte, poetry by William Wennington, entered for William Wennington, 12 Dec 1799.

page 164: [Samuel Richardson's] Pamela, a new edition, entered for multiple owners, 13 Apr 1801.

page 417: Ludwig van Beethoven's Grand Sonata and Variations on 'God Save the King', entered for Clementi, Banger, Hyde, Collard and Davis, 3 & 7 Sep 1804.

page 468: Ludwig van Beethoven's Grand Sonata, entered for Robert Birchall, 9 May 1805.

Entries of copies are dated 2 May 1806-21 Sep 1813; information given includes name (but not address or signature) of property owner, share (usually the 'whole'), title of work, usually name and sometimes occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually eleven) and signature of official (possibly the Clerk); marginal annotations record when certificates were subsequently issued and date of issue, mostly in the same year; with integral index by property owner, and separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Levizac's Dictionaire des Synonymes indexed under 'L'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Inserted are:

at pages 384-385 is letter and memorandum from Joseph Gleave of Manchester to the Worshipful Company of Stationers transferring his rights in a book called 'A New English Spelling Dictionary' to the editor, Thomas Jackson, at whose request the book had been entered by Gleave in the register, 24 Aug 1814.

page 305: Ludwig Van Beethoven's 'Anxiety of Absence', a favourite Arietta, Composed with an accompaniment for the Piano-Forte, entered for Clementi, 31 Oct 1810.

page 306: Ludwig Van Beethoven's 'The Lover', a favourite Arietta, Composed with an accompaniment for the Piano-Forte, 31 Oct 1810.

page 306: Ludwig Van Beethoven's Grand Concerto for the Piano-Forte, as newly constructed by Clementi With additional Keys up to F falso arranged for Piano-Forte up to C, with accompaniments for full orchestra, entered for Clementi, 1 Nov 1810.

Entries of copies are dated 22 Sep 1813-15 Jan 1816; information given includes name of property owner and from August 1814 name and address of publisher is increasingly given, until Sep 1814 the share is given (usually the 'whole'), title of work, usually name and sometimes occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (until August 1814 usually eleven, thereafter one, seven or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); until August 1814 marginal annotations record when certificates were issued and date of issue, mostly in the same year; integral index blank, and separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Goldsmith's Fugitive Pieces indexed under 'G'.

A pencil note on the front fly leaf reads 'Vol 9'.

A pencil note on the fly leaf at the rear of the volume reads 'List for Nov & Dec sent to British Museum, Oxford, Cambr, Fac. Adv. Edin [Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh]'.

Inserted at pages 321-322 is an envelope from the War Office addressed to 'CR Rivington Esq (or the Clerk to the Stationers' Co), Fenchurch Building, EC', 13 Jul [no year].

Significant entries include:

page 90: William Wordsworth's The Excursion, entered for Longman and Co, 27 Aug 1813.

page 279: William Wordsworth's Poems including Lyrical Ballads, published by Longman and Co, 2 May 1815.

page 327: William Wordsworth's The White Doe of Rylstone or The Fate of the Nortons, published by Longman and Co, 30 May 1815.

page 385: Walter Scott's Rokeby, published by Longman and Co, 2 Aug 1815.

page 451: [Walter Scott's] Waverley, published by Constable and Co, 3 Oct 1815.

page 474: Walter Scott's The Field of Waterloo, published by Longman and Co, 7 Nov 1815.

Entries of copies are dated 15 Jan 1816-27 Jun 1817; information given includes name and usually address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and sometimes occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (one, seven or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); integral index blank; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Mason's Statistical Account of Ireland indexed under 'M'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

A pencil note on the front fly leaf reads 'Vol 10'.

Significant entries include:

page 1: Ludwig van Beethoven's Grand Battle Symphony, published by R Birchall, 15 Jan 1816.

page 27: Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake, The Vision of Don Roderick, The Field of Waterloo and other poems, published by Longman and Co, 5 Mar 1816.

page 31: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Alastor, published by Baldwin, Cradock and Co, 13 Mar 1816.

page 58: Walter Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel, published by Longman and Co, 3 Apr 1816.

page 102: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Christabel, Kubla Khan and The Pains of Sleep, published by John Murray, 11 May 1816.

pages 119-120: Lord Byron's Poems, published by John Murray, 27 May 1816.

page 203: Lord Byron's Reflections on Shipboard, published by RS Kirby, 13 Aug 1816.

page 268: Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Sonata No 10, Opus 96, published by R Birchall, 29 Oct 1816.

page 319: Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Trio, Opus 97, published by R Birchall, 5 Dec 1816.

page 329: Lord Byron's The Prisoner of Chillon and other poems, published by John Murray, 14 Dec 1816.

page 330: Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III, published by John Murray, 14 Dec 1816.

page 332: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Statesman's Manual, published by Gale and Fenner, 18 Dec 1816.

page 358: Ludwig van Beethoven's Grand Symphony in A, published by R Birchall, 7 Jan 1817.

page 551: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Blessed are Ye that Sow Beside All Waters, published by Gale and Fenner, 26 Jun 1817.

page 553: Lord Byron's Manfred, published by John Murray, 26 Jun 1817.

Entries of copies are dated 27 Jun 1817-6 Feb 1819; information given includes name and usually address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (one, seven or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Mulvey's Sketches of the Character indexed under 'M'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

A pencil note on the front fly leaf reads 'Vol XI'.

Pencil note on fly leaf at rear of volume reads 'Mr Cartright, Passage is to [...] [...] in to Queen's Square'.

Significant entries include:

page 74: Lord Byron's Lament of Tasso, published by John Murray, 4 Sep 1817.

page 163: Jeremy Bentham's Plan of Parliamentary Reform, published by Rowland Hunter, 16 Dec 1817.

page 183: [Mary Shelley's] Frankenstein, published by Lackington and Co, 15 Jan 1818.

page 199: Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Revolt of Islam, published by C and J Ollier, 29 Jan 1818.

page 235: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Zapolya, Sibylline Leaves and Biographia Literaria, published by Rest Fenner, 4 Mar 1818.

page 311: John Keats' Endymion, published by Taylor and Hessey, 19 May 1818.

page 509: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Friend, published by Rest Fenner, 12 Dec 1818.

Entries of copies are dated 6 Feb 1819-15 Sep 1820; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually one or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Howard's English Dramas indexed under 'H'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

A pencil note on the front fly leaf reads 'Vol XII'.

Significant entries include:

page 54: Lord Byron's The Vampyre, published by H Colburn, 29 Mar 1819.

page 170: Lord Byron's Mazeppa, published by John Murray, 3 Jul 1819.

page 254: Ludwig van Beethoven's Grand Sonata for the Pianoforte, published by The Regents Harmonic Institution, 1 Oct 1819.

page 255: Ludwig van Beethoven's Introduction and Fugue for the Pianoforte, published by The Regents Harmonic Institution, 1 Oct 1819.

page 320: Ludwig van Beethoven's Introduction and Fugue for the Pianoforte, published by The Regents Harmonic Institution, 24 Dec 1819.

page 367: [Walter Scott's] Ivanhoe, published by Hurst and Robinson, 3 Feb 1820.

Entries of copies are dated 16 Sep 1820-10 May 1822; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually one or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Knickerbocker's History of New York indexed under 'K'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Pencil note on fly leaf at rear of volume reads 'the Cambridge List in future to be sent to Mr Durham, No 44 Broad Street, Golden Square, June 8 1821'.

Significant entries include:

page 201: Lord Byron's Letter to ** *** on the Rev WL Bowles's Strictures on the Life and Writings of Pope, published by John Murray, 26 Apr 1821.

page 201: Lord Byron's Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice, and The Prophecy of Dante, published by John Murray, 26 Apr 1821.

page 216: Lord Byron's Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice, and The Prophecy of Dante, published by John Murray, 19 May 1821.

Entries of copies are dated 10 May 1822-30 Sep 1823; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually one or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Swaffield's Twenty-five Melodies indexed under 'S'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Significant entries include:

page 78: William Wordsworth's A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England, 3rd edition, published by Longman and Co, 16 Jul 1822.

page 406: William Wilberforce's An Appeal to the Religion, Justice and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire, in behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies, published by Hatchard and Son, 22 Apr 1823.

page 409: Ludwig van Beethoven's Grand Sonata for Pianoforte, published by Clementi and Co, 25 Apr 1823.

page 446: Ludwig van Beethoven's Trifles for the Pianoforte, published by Clementi and Co, 3 Jun 1823.

page 486: Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata for the Pianoforte, published by Clementi and Co, 2 Jul 1823.

Entries of copies are dated 1 Oct 1823-23 Apr 1825; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually one or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Farren's Treatise on Life Assurance indexed under 'F'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Significant entries include:

page 537: [Thomas Hood's] Odes and Addresses to Great People, published by Baldwin and Co, 23 May 1825.