The Stationers’ Company (1960) examines the corporate existence, under one name or another, of the Stationers’ Company over five hundred and fifty years. At some periods of its life it was of importance only to its own members, while at others it played parts of consequence in the history of the City of London and even in the history of England.
1. The Charter – and Before 2. The Early Stationers and their Governance 3. The Company in the Reign of Elizabeth I 4. The Company and the Monopolists 5. The Life of a Stationer 6. The Stocks 7. Growth, 1603 to 1641 8. Civil War 9. The Company in the Reigns of the Later Stuarts 10. Corporation and English Stock Finances 11. The Property 12. The Company in the Eighteenth Century 13. Signs of Old Age 14. The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Biography
Cyprian Blagden
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