The Library has a trial to Literary Print Culture: The Stationers’ Company Archive.
What You’ll Find:
- A unique archive relating to the history of printing, publishing, and bookselling dating from 1554 to the 21th century.
- The Entry Book of Copies (1554-1842), used to establish copyright belonging to publishers, booksellers and eventually authors until the introduction of automatic copyright in 1912.
- The Membership Records (1555-1940), providing valuable biographical information on the printing and publishing community and members of the Stationers’ Company.
- The Court Records (1602-1982), an essential source for understanding the workings of the Stationers’ Company and for dating texts or tracing editions.
- The English Stock documents (1603-1961), which recorded the activities of the successful publishing arm of the Stationers’ Company.
- The Treasurers’ vouchers (1734-1800) detail English Stock payments for printing, paper and advertising almanacs and other English Stock books.
The trial will run from September 13, 2019 to October 11th, 2019. Please note that these trials are available only from on-campus.
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The UC Berkeley Library also has temporary trials until October 11th, 2019 for the following digital collections from Adam Matthew: