Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1554-1907 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
14 files
Context area
Repository
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Annual accounts of the Wardens, showing sums of money received and disbursed by the Company; accounts are audited from 1679.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
English
Script of material
Latin
Language and script notes
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Microfilm copies are on reels 1 and 75-77, 'Records of the Stationers' Company 1554-1920: 115 Reels of Microfilm with Printed Guide', published by Chadwyck-Healy Ltd (1989)
Related units of description
Under wardens' accounts [TSC/D/03-04]; Wardens' vouchers [TSC/D/14]
Publication note
J Hetet, 'The Wardens' Accounts of the Stationers' Company, 1663-79', in R Myers and M Harris (eds.), Economics of the Booktrade 1605-1939 (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healy, 1985), pp. 32-59 C Blagden, 'The Accounts of the Wardens of the Stationers' Company', Studies in Bibliography, ix (1957), pp. 69-93
Notes area
Note
Catalogued
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Open
Note
The Under Warden had overall responsibility for the Company's annual accounts until 1907, when the task was taken over by the Treasurer (the English Stock accounts were managed separately).