Property deeds and related records regarding properties in Amen Corner.
Correspondence re the amalgamation of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and the Newspaper Makers' Company, with members' lists.
Folder is divided into subfolders:
i: printed almanack advertisements, 1738-1799 [59 items]. Many were originally used as covers for bundles of Treasurers' vouchers and powers to pay dividends; others have handwritten annotations and were used to note numbers of almanacks sold, unsold, to be printed or to be returned to the stamp office.
ii: printed almanack publication notices, 1778-1873 [9 items]. The 18th century items were originally used as covers for bundles of Treasurers' vouchers.
iii: letter from William Chase to George Hawkins regarding advertisement and publication of almanacks, 5 Nov 1795.
iv: extract from 'Publisher's Circular', 1884 (missing).
Annual accounts of monies received and spent on producing and selling almanacks, arranged principally by almanack title, 1801-1812; also includes statistics for individual almanack titles, 1801-1814, and Old Moore's Almanack, 1826-1847, and combined almanack statistics 1801-1847.
i: copy case and indenture of agreement touching the University of Oxford, with G Hill's opinion on whether the agreement with Oxford and Cambridge is null and void, 19 Sep 1775.
ii: copy case with an unidentified opinion on whether the agreement with Oxford and Cambridge is null and void, undated.
iii: case as to the University rights, enlarged after Serjeant Hill's opinion on a former case, undated.
Parties: (1) James Temple, esquire (2) George Greenhill, gentleman.
Parties: (1) Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Company (2) Stationers' Company.
Parties: (1) Henry Frowde of the Oxford Bible Warehouse and publisher to the University of Oxford, on behalf of the University (2) Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent and Co Limited, lessees (3) Stationers' Company, lessor.
Includes a floor plan.