Reeks E - Trade records

17 sub-series

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.

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

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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.