ChesterCompany of “Paynters, Glaseors, Imbroudereres and Stacioners”
1534-18th century
Brief historyCharter granted to Company by mayor, 1 May 1534; formally enrolled 1536; renewed 1661; very few book-trade members; no printers until the eighteenth century.
Archive survives
Sources - Letters and Papers…Henry VIII, VII (1534) no.598
- Thomas
Hughes, “On Chester Literature, Its Authors and Publishers, during the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries”, Journal of the Architectural,
Archaeological, and Historic Society, for the County, City, and Neighbourhood
of Chester, 2 (1855-62), pp. 21-30
- E. Gordon
Duff, The English Provincial Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders to 1557 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1912), p.122
- Joseph C.
Bridge, “Items of Expenditure from the 16th
Century Accounts of the Painters, Glaziers, Embroiderers, and Stationers’
Company, with special reference to the ‘Shepherds’ Play’”, Journal of the
Architectural, Archæological, and Historic Society for the County and the City
of Chester, and North Wales, n.s., 20 (1914), pp. 153-91
- James
Moran, “Stationers’ Companies of the British Isles”, Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1962),
pp. 533-40 (p.535)
- R.F. Lane,
The Outwith London Guilds of Great Britain
(London: Privately printed by the Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass,
n.d.), p.6
Hereford [Stationers with Haberdashers, Barbers and Painters] 1611-18th century Brief historyCompany founded 1611; no printers until eighteenth century
Archive survives
Sources
- John
Buchanan-Brown, “The book trade in Herefordshire 1611-1851”, paper presented at the
Bibliographical Society (London, 16
January 1996) [personal notes]
- James Moran, “Stationers’ Companies of the British Isles”, Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1962), pp. 533-40 (pp.535-36)
HullCompany of Goldsmiths, Smiths, Pewterers, Plumbers, Glaziers, Painters, Cutlers, Musicians, Stationers, Bookbinders and Basketmakers 1598
Brief historyTrades amalgamated by mayor in 1598
Archive unknown status
Sources - Full text of agreement in Tudor Economic Documents (1953), I.131-35
- James Moran, “Stationers’ Companies of the British Isles”, Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1962), pp. 533-40 (p.536)
London Worshipful Company of Stationers / Stationers' Company 1403 to present Brief historyRecognised by city in 1403; incorporated 1557; formally amalgamated with Newspaper Makers in 1937
Archive Stationers' Hall, London. Microfilms available and printed catalogue.
Sources - Robin Myers, The Stationers’ Company Archive 1554-1984 (Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies, 1990)
- The Records of the Stationers’ Company 1554-1920, 115 reeels of microfilm (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1987)
- Cyprian Blagden, The Stationers’ Company: A History 1403-1959 (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1960 — repr. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977)
- Philip Unwin, The Stationers’ Company 1918-1977: A Livery Company in the Modern World (London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1978)
- Robin Myers, ed., The Stationers’ Company: A History of the Later Years 1800-2000 (Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, 2001)
- Edward Arber, ed., A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers 1554-1640 AD. 5 vols (London & Birmingham, 1875-94 — repr. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1967)
- G.E. Briscoe Eyre, ed., A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers from 1640-1708 A.D. 3 vols (London, 1913-14 — repr. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1967)
- D.F. McKenzie, ed., Stationers’ Company Apprentices 1605-40 (Charlottesville, Virginia: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1961)
- D.F. McKenzie, ed., Stationers’ Company Apprentices 1641-1700 (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1974)
- D.F. McKenzie, ed., Stationers’ Company Apprentices 1701-1800 (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1978)
- W.W. Greg, and E. Boswell, eds., Records of the Court of the Stationers’ Company 1576 to 1602 from Register B (London: Bibliographical Society, 1930)
- William A. Jackson, ed., Records of the Court of the Stationers’ Company 1602 to 1640 (London: Bibliographical Society, 1957)
NewcastleCompany of Upholsterers, Tinplate Workers and Stationers 1675-1817 Brief history Incorporated 1675, the same year as the creation of a Newcastle Company of Scriveners; stewards to consist of four upholsterers, one tinplate worker and one stationer; charter and rules published 1817
Archive unknown status
Sources - James Moran, “Stationers’ Companies of the British Isles”, Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1962), pp. 533-40 (p.536)
- R.F. Lane, The Outwith London Guilds of Great Britain (London: Privately printed by the Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass, n.d.), pp.15-16
Norwich[stationers included in Apothecaries’ Company] 1622 Brief history In 1622, Norwich’s crafts and trades divided into 12 Companies — the stationers, along with upholsterers, tanners, carpenters, painters and basketmakers, were placed in the Apothecaries’ Company
Archive unknown status
Sources - James Moran, “Stationers’ Companies of the British Isles”, Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1962), pp. 533-40 (p.536)
York[guild of “escriveners de text” and guild of parchmentmakers] c.1400
Brief history [unknown]
Archive unknown status
Sources - Stacey Gee, private information
Bookebynders of York, otherwise called Stacyoners 1476/84-1554
Brief history Ordinances registered by city 1476 or 1484; revised ordinance 1554
Archive unknown status
Sources - Stacey Gee, private information
- Stacey Gee, 'The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of York before 1557', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 12 (2000), 27-54 (p.48)
- James Moran, “Stationers’ Companies of the British Isles”, Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1962), pp. 533-40 (pp.534-5)
[guild of textwriters, illuminators, flourishers, notors and turnours] 1487
Brief history [unknown]
Archive unknown status
Sources - Stacey Gee, private information
- Stacey Gee, 'The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of York before 1557', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 12 (2000), 27-54 (p.32)
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