the london booktrades 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 trades 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 who were made free of the stationers’ company are indicated with an image of the company’s arms at the head of their entry.