London Book Trades
The London Book Trades: - a biographical and documentary resource
Presented by The Bibliographical Society with the support of the Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian Library and the Oxford Bibliographical Society.
The London Book Trades project is being built from a database designed to contain biographical information on printers, booksellers, bookbinders, stationers, and those in associated trades who worked in and around London from the introduction of printing into England until about the year 1830. There are currently entries for something over thirty thousand individuals, about two thirds of whom have been derived from the archives of the Stationers' Company.
For the Stationers' Company, the City Livery Company principally concerned with these matters, we are attempting to be comprehensive - including all its members, whether they subsequently worked in the book trade or not - in London or not; and all the apprentices bound at the Hall, even if there is no subsequent record of their freedom. Individuals whom we know to have been made free of the Stationers' Company are indicated by the category Stationers Company. The Company have supported the project in its early phases.