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