Receipt of William Baker in the sum of eight shillings for binding two large paper books. Personal name: William Baker.

Notes 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.

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.

Reprints of a series of practical technical lectures organised by the Stationers' Company and Printing Industry Technical Board, and delivered at Stationers' Hall.

Bills and receipts.

Folder contains:

i: commissioners of the stamp duties notice that printers, publishers and vendors of unstamped almanacks will be prosecuted, 8 Aug 1778.

ii: commissioners of the stamp duties note to the Company requesting that stationers comply with rules concerning binding of almanacks, 13 Aug 1778.

iii: letter to the Company from William Chapman concerning weights of 167 bundles of company paper, 25 Nov 1771.

iv: printed circular from the stamp office concerning the stamping of admission records, 21 Mar 1828.

v: lists of weights of crown paper bundles, examined by W Bayley, 15 Oct and 22 Nov 1771 [2 items].

Discussion of the application of the Act for the Encouragement of Learning [the Statute of Anne/Copyright Act 1710] to books published abroad, and financial implications for the English book trade of the importation of such books.