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The Stationers’ Company Archive Digitised
Literary Print Culture, the latest primary source collection from Adam Matthew Digital, makes available The Stationers’ Company Archive with material from 1554 to the 21st Century.
Students and scholars of English literature, Renaissance theatre, and print culture from the early modern period to the twentieth century can now access one of the most important sources for the history of the book, publishing and copyright.
The Entry Book of Copies (1554-1842). The Stationer’s Company Registers are the single most comprehensive record of all printed works registered in England until the mid-nineteenth century. Notable entries include Shakespeare’s First Folio, entered on November 8th, 1623.
The Court Records (1602-1982) can be used to date texts, track editions, illuminate the lives of early printers and trace the establishment of book trade practices.
The English Stock documents (1603-1961) record the activities of the successful publishing arm of the Stationers’ Company. The English Stock Company held a monopoly for many years over popular and frequently re-published works.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, to give its official name, is historically one of England’s most important cultural institutions. It can date its origins to 1403, when London’s authorities formally allowed the ’textwriters’ (scribes who specialised in producing non-legal documents), ‘limners’ (who illuminated manuscripts), and those who bound and sold books to create a single organisation to regulate their trades...
