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Entries of copies are dated 23 Apr 1825-26 Oct 1826; 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); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Roe's Introduction to Bookkeeping indexed under 'R'.

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

Pencil note on fly leaf at front of volume reads 'Vol XVI'.

Pencil note on fly leaf at rear of volume reads 'Mr Durham, 31 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury'.

Pasted in at pages 345-346 are documents relating to Richard Elsom's protest against Mr Thomas Kelly's entry of Elsom's The Practical Builder's Perpetual Price Book in the Stationers' Register, 1825-1826.

Significant entries include:

page 317: [Mary Shelley's] The Last Man, published by H Colburn, 26 Jan 1826.

page 476: Anne Radcliffe's Gaston de Blondeville, published by H Colburn, 20 Jun 1826.

Entries of copies are dated 26 Oct 1826-30 Apr 1828; 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); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Wade's Little Maid and the Bird indexed under 'W'.

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

Pencil note on fly leaf at front of volume reads 'Vol XVII'.

Significant entries include:

page 369: Thomas Hood's The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and other poems, published by Longman and Co, 11 Oct 1827.

Entries of copies are dated 1 May 1828-25 Jan 1830; 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); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Walsh's The Geometric Base indexed under 'W'.

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 'Durham demands for Brit Mus, Trin Col Dub, Camb, Glasgow, St Andrews. Mr Durham, 261 Regent Street'.

page 421: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany, published by J Murray, 19 Jun 1829.

page 539: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany part 2, published by J Murray, 10 Dec 1829.

Entries of copies are dated 25 Jan 1830-20 Jul 1831; 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); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Howison's Tales of the Colonies indexed under 'H'.

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

Note in ink on fly leaf at front of volume reads, 'In Chancery. Chappell v Purday. Shewn to Joseph Greenhill and Thomas D'Almaine on their respective Examination for the defendant [Signed]'.

Inserted at pages 419-420 is a certified copy of an entry on page 419 of the volume, signed by George Greenhill, 'Warehousekeeper of the Company of Stationers', 3 Mar 1831.

Significant entries include:

page 190: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany part 3, published by J Murray, 12 Jul 1830.

page 312: William Hooker's The British Flora, published by Longman and Co, 12 Nov 1830.

Entries of copies are dated 20 Jul 1831-25 Mar 1833; 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 [Company Treasurer]); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Smith's Pastor and Flock indexed under 'S'.

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

Significant entries include:

page 5: Lord Byron's Works volumes 5 and 6, published by J Murray, 21 Jul 1831.

page 5: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany parts 4 and 5, published by J Murray, 21 Jul 1831.

page 276: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany part 6, published by J Murray, 19 May 1832.

page 277: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany part 7, published by J Murray, 19 May 1832.

Entries of copies are dated 25 Mar 1833-26 Jan 1835; 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 [Company Treasurer]); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg 'Mills's Apology for Church of England' indexed under 'M'.

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

Significant entries include:

page 49: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany part 9, published by J Murray, 18 May 1833.

page 107: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany part 8, published by J Murray, 16 Jul 1833.

page 294: William Hooker's Journal of Botany part 1, published by J Murray, 12 Mar 1834.

page 349: Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor, published by J Murray, 8 May 1834.

Entries of copies are dated 27 Jan 1835-31 Aug 1836; 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, final entry in register records five copies received) and signature of official (George Greenhill); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Robson's Treatise on Marine Surveying indexed under 'R'.

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

Significant entries include:

page 398: William Hooker's English Flora, published by Longman and Co, 15 Mar 1836.

Entries of copies are dated 1 Sep 1836-16 Feb 1838; 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 five) and signature of official (George Greenhill); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Robinson's He gave me indexed under 'R'.

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

Significant entries include:

page 149: William Hooker's Icones Plantarum, published by Longman and Co, 3 Mar 1837.

page 297: Gustav Holst's aria All'idea che res non sons, published by C Lonsdale, 9 Jun 1837.

Entries of copies are dated 17 Feb 1838-13 Aug 1839; 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 five) and signature of official (George Greenhill); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Leach's Services of rifle brigade indexed under 'L'.

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

Significant entries include:

page 72: Thomas Hood's Hood's Own, or Laughter from Year to Year, published by Baily and Co, 2 May 1838.

page 78: Franz Liszt's Schubert's Admired French and German Melodies, published by Mori and Lavenu, 10 May 1838.

page 133: Franz Liszt's Grand Galop Chromatique, published by Mori and Lavenu, 15 Jun 1838.

page 337: Franz Liszt's Huit Premieres Etudes, published by Mori and Lavenu, 14 Jan 1839.

page 392: Thomas Hood's The Comic Annual, published by Baily and Co, 8 Mar 1839.

Entries of copies are dated 13 Aug 1839-13 Mar 1841; 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 five) and signature of official (George Greenhill); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Wells's Rich Man's Duty indexed under 'W'.

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

Significant entries include:

page 147: Franz Liszt's arrangement of Beethoven's Celebrated Cantata Adelaida, published by L Lavenu, 1 Feb 1840.

page 176: Franz Liszt's arrangement of Schubert's Schwaneng, published by Cocks and Co, 29 Feb 1840.

page 206: Franz Liszt's arrangement of Schubert's Winterreise, published by Cocks and Co, 31 Mar 1840.

page 206: Felix Mendelssohn's Grand Trio, published by JJ Ewel and Co, 2 Apr 1840.

page 207: Thomas Hood's Up The Rhine, published by Baily and Co, 2 Apr 1840.

page 344: Franz Liszt's Etudes d'Execution Transcendante d'apres Paganini, published by Cocks and Co, 20 Jul 1840.

page 426: Franz Liszt's Album d'un Voyageur, published by L Lavenu, 31 Oct 1840.

Entries of copies are dated 15 Mar 1841-1 Jul 1842; 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 five) and signature of official (George Greenhill); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Nesbit's Introduction to Arts and Sciences indexed under 'N'.

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

The final entry in the volume reads 'From the afternoon of this day when the New Copyright Bill received the Royal Assent, Entries are made in another book according to the form given in the Act'.

Significant entries include:

page 217: Franz Liszt's Reminiscences de Robert le Diable, published by Chappell, 4 Oct 1841.

page 478: Alfred Tennyson's Poems, published by Edward Moxon, 25 May 1842.

Front endpapers contain papers including British Museum Copyright Office receipts for books delivered, 1913.

Entries cover 28 Apr 1911-12 Jul 1912 and 2 Jul 1917-8 Jan 1924. Front endpapers contain a notice about American publications, a list of books, and a small sheet of music.