History of the Book archive sources

This guide to History of the Book archives is not intended to be exhaustive. It complements the archives catalogue, which includes a subject search facility, and the Book Studies subject gateway.

Libraries:

  • Mudie's Select Library: Sarah Keith collection, 1842-c1972, MS1141

  • Goldsmiths Library archive:  Foxwell papers, 1584-c1935, MS602, MS789, MS790, MS1115, MS1166

  • University of London Library archive, 1901-2004, UoL/UL

  • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence papers, 1556-1954, DLL

  • Sir Louis Sterling papers, 1903-1974, LS

  • Douglas Foskett papers, c1940-1991, MS1173

  • Don Richnell papers, c1922-c1991, MS1135

  • John Henry Pyle Pafford papers, 1930, 1947, MS700, MS701

Publishers’ archives:

  • Athlone Press, 1945-1979, UoL/AP

  • Gerald Duckworth and Co, c1933-c1993, MS959

Printed ephemera:

  • Alan Clinton papers, c1964-1990, MS1114

Booksellers’ archives:

  • Charles Lahr, 1897-1970, MS985

  • Ridgill Trout, 1921-1969, MS862