An early London printing house at work: studies in the Bowyer ledgers: with a supplement to the Bowyer ornament stock (1973), an appendix on the Bowyer-Emonson partnership, and "Bowyer's Paper stock ledger", by Herbert Davis

A collection of 29 studies, most previously published over the course of 40 years, about the 18th-century London book trade, centering on the work of William Bowyer, senior and junior. The studies are spinoffs from research for the massive complete edition of the Bowyer ledgers, published in 1991. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Frontmatter Introduction (page vii) Bowyer's Paper Stock Ledger (HERBERT DAVIS, page 1) The Printers of Robinson Crusoe (page 17) Three Eighteenth-Century Reprints of the Castrated Sheets in Holinshed's Chronicles (page 27) Some Early Editions of Volitaire Printed in London (page 33) Review of; D. F. McKenzie, The Cambridge University Press 1696-1712 (page 41) New Editions of Pope's Essay on Man 1745-48 (page 45) Point-Holes as Bibliographical Evidence (page 55) Editions Quantities for Robinson Crusoe 1719 (page 57) 'Drawing Poor Robin' (page 63) 'Press" Letters: Samuel Aris 1730-32 (page 65) The Printing of the Votes of the House of Commons 1730-1781 (page 73) William Strahan at the Bowyer Press 1736-8 (page 89) Printing Charges: Inference and Evidence (page 91) Printing for the Author: From the Bowyer Printing Ledgers, 1710-1775 (page 97) Masters and Men (page 105) Bowyer's Chapel Rules (page 123) Seven Years Editing the Bowyer Ledgers (page 127) Jobbing Printing and the Bibliographer: New Evidence from the Bowyer Ledgers (page 139) Shared Printing and the Bibliographer: New Evidence from the Bowyer Press (page 153) Parson Lister's Library (page 165) The Bowyer Ledgers: Their Historical Importance (page 181) The Bowyer Ledgers: Retrospect and Prospect (page 189) Slaves or Freemen? The Case of William Bowyer, Father and Son, Printers of London, 1699-1777 (page 203) An Editorial Impasse: The Dawks-Bowyer-Nichols Printer's Notebook (page 213) George Faulkner and William Bowyer: The London Connection (page 223) A Supplement to The Bowyer Ornament Stock (page 235) APPENDIX: Bowyer's Partnership with Emonson, 10 October 1754-4 July 1757 (page 245) Index (page 249)