Description: | The Publishing Archive, the largest and most significant collection of unique material on this subject in the world, covers some of the major UK publishers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The collections contain correspondence with authors, manuscript drafts, readersÃ' reports, proofs, editorial material, catalogues, books, original artwork for illustrations and book jackets, ledgers, accounts and business and marketing records. It is a key resource for a wide range of research including literary biography, book history and the economics of publishing.
The Publishing Archive includes material from the following:
George Allen & Unwin Ltd, Baillière, Tindall & Cox, George Bell & Sons Ltd, A. & C. Black, The Bodley Head Ltd, Jonathan Cape Ltd, Chatto & Windus Ltd, William Clowes & Sons, Crosby Lockwood, Darton & Harvey, De La Rue and Company Ltd, Elkin Mathews, Gaberbocchus Press, Heinemann Educational Books, The Hogarth Press Ltd, Keepsake Press, Ladybird Books, London Typographical Designers Ltd, The Longman Group, Macmillan and Company Ltd, Peter Owen Ltd, Phoenix House Ltd, G. P. Putnam, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Secker & Warburg Ltd, Swan Sonnenschein, Virago Press, Frederick Warne, Werner Laurie Ltd.
Reading University Library has many other collections relating to the British book industry and book history, which form a valuable resource for the study of all aspects of book production and printing. As well as these collections, authorsÃ' papers, the rare book collection, and incunabula are also used by researchers into book history.
For a full list of the publishing archives, please see the list of Reading University Library Special Collections at: http://www.reading.ac.uk/library/colls/special/collsindex.html
The largest and most significant collection of archive material on British publishing in the world. |