Key To Entries
The register is organised alphabetically by firm, journal title or named
individual and cross referenced in the entries where appropriate.
| Name of Firm: Trade, Place of Trade | ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS: Printers & publishers |
| Location of archive | Aberdeen UL. |
| Dates indicate period covered by accounts, correspondence, etc | Minutes & letters about buying machinery or purchase & production of plates, electro & stereo, or executive board decisions 1897-1911, 1900-1939; financial records, 1933-; miscellaneous records, 1869- |
| Microform, Catalogue reference | Checklist available as a computerised database. Catalogue ref., MS 3233. |
| Other firms records included | Includes: Rosemont Press, Wm Jackson, John Avery Press, G. Cornwall & Sons, Arthur King & Co. & Mind papers. |
| See also (other entries in the guide) | |
| Origin of information | NRA & personal correspondence. |
| Locations of other material |
There is also an index of names. Anonymous firms are listed at the back of each section and indexed by place of trade.
Contents
Contents
Publishers and printers 1
Followed by anonymous publishers and printers
Stationers and booksellers 45
Followed by anonymous stationers and booksellers
Literary agents 53
Professional associations 55
Followed by the archives of the Typographical Association and the Typographical
Society
Bookbinders 61
Dublin book trade archives 63
Abbreviations and references 65
Addresses 66
Index 72
Additional archives form
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