The Stationers' Company and the book trade 1550-1990

List of Contributors . . vi
Introduction . . vii
List of those attending the Conference . . xi

The Stationers' Hall . . 1
William Cecil and the Stationers . . 11
Stationers' Company Liber A: An Apologia . . 35
Members of the Stationers' Company who served in he Artillery Company before the Civil War: Ralphe Mabbe and his network . . 65
The Mechanicks of Difference; a study in Stationers' Company Discourse in the Seventeenth Century . . 93
George Hawkins (1705-1780): Bookseller and Treasurer of the English Stock of the Stationers' Company . . 113
Smugglers, Reprinters and Hot Pursuers: The Irish-Scottish Book Trade and Copyright Prosecution in the Late Eighteenth Century . . 151
Jones Wales and the Stationers' Company . . 185

Index . . 203