Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1554-2001 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
17 sub-series
Zone du contexte
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Records of trade activities specific to the Stationers' Company, chiefly concerning print regulation, legal deposit and the Stationers' Register. Additional trade activities were carried out by the Company's joint stock company dealing in titles owned by the Company, the English Stock; for ease of reference, English Stock records are catalogued in a separate subfonds, TSC/STO.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Trade records have been arranged into 17 subseries:
TSC/E/01: Acts of Parliament
TSC/E/02: Printed proclamations
TSC/E/03: Petitions and warrants
TSC/E/04: Papers of trade committees and groups
TSC/E/05: Trade financial records
TSC/E/06: Registers of entries of copies
TSC/E/07: Draft register of entries of copies
TSC/E/08: Transcripts of entries of copies
TSC/E/09: Copyright register indices
TSC/E/10: Records of the Stationers' Hall Registry (voluntary Registry)
TSC/E/11: Copyright administrative records
TSC/E/12: Registers of books for deposit libraries
TSC/E/13: Index to register of books for deposit libraries
TSC/E/14: Registers of books for the British Museum
TSC/E/15: Copy indentures for sending books to the Bodleian Library
TSC/E/16: Deposit libraries administrative records
TSC/E/17: Records relating to search and seizure
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Conditions de reproduction
Langue des documents
anglais
Écriture des documents
latin
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Unités de description associées
Zone des notes
Note
Catalogued
Note
Open
Note
While the Stationers' Company always represented professions relating to every aspect of book production, including paper-making and book-binding, from the sixteenth century printing was the activity that attracted most attention from Crown and Church authorities. In particular, the Stationers' Register, or Entry Book of Copies, foreshadowed the development of copyright and intellectual property laws.