Receipt of Robert Stephens in the sum of four pounds for 40 Bibles for Christ's Hospital. Received of Warden Hodgkin, 7 May 1705. This charitable donation of Bibles was provided for by the Meredith bequest. Place name: Christ's Hospital. Personal names: Robert Stephens, Thomas Hodgkin, Christopher Meredith.
Sin títuloTwo receipts. Signed receipt of Robert Steele for 12 Bibles for Christ's Hospital received of Robert Stephens from the Company, 6 October 1707. On the verso is the signed receipt of Robert Stephens in the sum of four pounds for Bibles for the school from Warden Collins, 10 December 1707. This charitable donation of Bibles was provided for by the Meredith bequest. Place name: Christ's Hospital. Personal names: Robert Stephens, Robert Steele, Freeman Collins.
Sin títuloTwo receipts. The first receipt is signed by Robert Steele for Bibles delivered by Robert Stephens for Bluecoat Hospital (Christ's Hospital school), 1 October 1707. The second receipt is signed by Robert Stephens in the sum of four pounds for acquiring and delivering the Bibles to the school from Warden Collins, 28 May 1708. This charitable donation of Bibles was provided for by the Meredith bequest. Place name: Christ's Hospital. Personal names: Robert Stephens, Robert Steele, Freeman Collins.
Sin títuloReceipt of Robert Stephens in the sum of four pounds for 60 Bibles for the Bluecoat Hospital (Christ's Hospital school). Received of Warden Baskett, 14 Dec 1709. This charitable donation of Bibles was provided for by the Meredith bequest. Place name: Christ's Hospital. Personal names: Robert Stephens, John Baskett, Christopher Meredith.
Sin títuloTwo receipts. Signed receipt of Jane Steele for 44 Bibles delivered by Robert Stephens for the use of Christ's Hospital, 20 April 1712. On the verso is the signed receipt of Stephens in the sum of four pounds for delivery of the Bibles, received of Warden Browne, 22 May 1712. This charitable donation of Bibles was provided for by the Meredith bequest. Place name: Christ's Hospital. Personal names: Robert Stephens, Jane Steele, Daniel Browne, Christopher Meredith.
Sin títuloReceipt of Robert Stephens in the sum of four pounds for delivering Bibles to Mrs Jane Steele of the Bluecoat Hospital (Christ's Hospital school). Received of Warden Freeman, 31 March 1713. This charitable donation of Bibles was provided for by the Meredith bequest. Place name: Christ's Hospital. Personal names: Robert Stephens, Freeman Collins, Jane Steele, Christopher Meredith.
Sin títuloReceipt of Robert Stephens in the sum of four pounds for Bibles delivered to Mrs Jane Steele for the use of the Bluecoat Hospital (Christ's Hospital school), 11 December 1713. This charitable donation of Bibles was provided for by the Meredith bequest. Place name: Christ's Hospital. Personal names: Robert Stephens, Jane Steele, John Lawrence.
Sin títuloReceipt of Elizabeth Stephens in the sum of seven pounds for kitchen equipment, including spits, slices, pans, an iron fender, iron racks, among other items. Received of Warden Sprint and valued by the cook, Mr Lilly, 17 November 1715. Personal names: Elizabeth Stephens, Jo: Collyer, John Sprint, Mr Lilly.
Sin títuloNotes of subscription by various booksellers, and by the Master & Wardens of the Stationers' Company, to pay William Lathom a fee for policing unauthorised hawking of books.
- Copy of Michael Treadwell, ‘A New List of English Master Printers c.1686’, The Library, 4 (1), pp. 57-61. With extensive 20th century notes on lists of printers in 1693 and list of subscribers to the English Stock, 1692.
- List of printing presses seized by the Stationers, undated (2 copies)
- List of Master Printers, undated
Three petitions addressed to the Master and Wardens of the Stationers’ Company with transcripts. One transcript dates the petitions to c.1685.
- Two petitions from free workmen (journeymen) printers complaining of lack of work because of ‘supernumerary printing houses, apprentices, and printing presses, and a multitude of aliens’.
- Petition from master and workmen printers of London complaining of printing outside London, in particular York and Oxford.
Title pages:
The Bible (London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1599)
The Whole Book of Psalmes (London: John Windet, 1601)
The Whole Book of Psalmes (London: Stationers’ Company, 1607)
The Whole Book of Psalmes (London: Stationers’ Company, 1611)
The Book of Psalmes (London: Stationers’ Company, 1613)
The Whole Book of Psalmes (London: Stationers’ Company, 1615)
The New Testament (London: Robert Barker, 1616)
The Book of Psalmes (London: Stationers’ Company, 1619)
The Whole Book of Psalmes (London: Stationers’ Company, 1626)
The Whole Book of Psalmes (London: Stationers’ Company, 1630)
The New Testament (London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1630)
The Whole Book of Psalmes (London: Stationers’ Company, 1631)
Saint Stevens Last Will and Testament. A Funerall Sermon on Acts 7. Ver. 59 (London: E.P. for Nicolas Bourne, 1638)
Prosodia Henrici Smetii… (London: Stationers’ Company, 1648)
The Whole Book of Psalmes (London: T.R. for the Company of Stationers, 1669)
A Paraphrase on the Gospel of St. Matthew (London: James Knapton, 1701)
The Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated (London: C. Rivington and W. Cantrell, 1727)
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (London: John and Paul Knapton, 1740)
Novum Testamentum (London: Johannes Nicholas, 1794)
Complete Pamphlets:
Ieroboams Sonnes Decease. A Funerall Sermon on part of 1 Kings 14. 17. (London: Anne Griffin for Edward Brewster and Fulke Clifton, 1637)
A Sermon Preach’d at the Funeral of Sir John Buckworth (London: Walter Kettilby and Thomas Horne, 1688)
Hand-written list of injunctions and proclamations extracted from a variety of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts.
Hand-written copy of the Statute of Anne.
Event brochures and menu cards.
Ecellence 87
Photo of Sarah, the Duchess of York
Roles within the Stationers Company
Letter from the Lord Mayor for the event
Brief history of the Stationers Compnay
Introduction to the event by Allen F Thompson
List of exhbitors and craft demonstrators.
Floorplan of Hall and Ante Room
List of Comapny exhibitors
The educational charity
Information on 1987 Scholarship Award Winners
Comapny supporting activites
Credits
Warrants 2026
Master Certificate Scheme 2026