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Richard Bentley & Son, publishers and booksellers

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Date: 1787-1962
Places:
  • London
Functions, occupations and activities: Paper, printing and packaging > Booksellers and stationers | Paper, printing and packaging > Publishing
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C117347 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B908 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1787-1877: deeds, antiquarian notes, and other papers of Richard and Samuel Bentley
Stationers' Company
See BRA Annual Report 1984-85
2
1811-1962: authors' accounts and ledgers, cashbooks, daybooks, readers reports, publication ledgers, letterbooks, etc
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 46560-682, 59622-51, 60394-95; Add Ch 76768-76772
3
19th cent: papers, supplementing Add MSS 46560-46682
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Deposit 9326
See Annual Return 1994
4
19th cent: letters to and from partners, misc papers
University of California Library, Los Angeles: Special Collections Department
See Chadwyck-Healey Ltd, The archives of Richard Bentley & Son
5
19th cent: corresp, family papers, entries of days of subscription, minute books, scrapbooks, etc
University of Illinois Library, Urbana
See Chadwyck-Healey Ltd, The archives of Richard Bentley & Son
6
19th cent-1936: corresp, personal papers, and misc lists of publications, notes etc
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Don b 12-13, c 86-87
7
1829-1936: corresp, accounts and papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng misc d 810-11, 1209, e 732-36; Eng lett c 330
8
1896-1897: corresp with Douglas BW Sladen
Richmond upon Thames Local Studies Library and Archive
SLA/3, 5
NRA 14252 Sladen