Entries cover Dec 1938-Dec 1940 and Aug 1949-1961; inserted in front endpapers are loose papers, including a list of stock shares at 30 Jun 1950.
Item 2. i is missing
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.
B/W photograph. View of the Hall looking south, laid for dinner, between 1956 and 1967.
Colour photograph. General view of guests, seated at tables in the Main Hall, during a dinner to celebrate the award of the Company’s Silver Medal to Sir Derek Greenaway. 26th June 1984.
Indexed list of dinner guests; pasted in programmes; transcribed menus.
Wardens' vouchers for dinners including the annual venison feasts and thanksgiving dinners.
i: food bills, 21 Aug 1677-4 Nov 1748 [28 items].
ii: wine bills, 2 Dec 1689-14 Aug 1717 [14 items].
iii: miscellaneous dinner bills, 25 Jul 1761-12 Aug 1793 [14 items].
iv: pewterers', butlers' and breakages bills, 21 Sep 1677-19 Aug 1793 [15 items].
v: musicians' bills, 11 Aug 1681-15 Sep 1716 [24 items].
vi: thanksgiving dinner bills, 5 Sep 1698-27 Mar 1797 [5 items].
vii: inauguration banquet menu, 21 Jul 1875.