INDEX.

Five months of the summer of 1893 were devoted to writing out the 60,000 Slips for the intended
Two Indexes of this Volume of the Transcript &c., viz. :—

, Index I. An Index of the Mechanical Producers of English Boohs, and of Persons and Places
connected with them and with the Company of Stationers of London.
Index IT. An Index of the Intellectual Producers of English Books, together with Licensers and
Suppressers of the same, &c.

No forecast could be made of the number of Columns that each of these Indexes would fill, beyond
a rough guess at about 100 Columns each. It was however determined that this Work being a record
of the Stationers Company, the First Index should be exhaustively done in any case. It could
however only be printed very slowly : for there were so many figures in it that the type had to be
distributed as every sixteen pages were machined.

Thus slowly between October 1893 and February 1894, Index I. came into type; and of itself
made 186 Columns.

As it was seen from the number of Slips that the Second Index would be nearly of the same size
as the First'; and as the cost of the former part of this Volume had already far exceeded every
anticipation of its expense ; it became evident that it would not be possible to print Index IL
 

In the following Index, Compound Names of Places will be found under the principal word; and
not under Little, Great, Much, Long, Short, Old, New, Lower, Upper, North, South, West, East, St.
It has not been possible to identify many of these Place Names.
 

There are no references to the pages of the Bibliographical Summary;  as that would have

increased  the  size  of this   Index  by  one-third  or  more.     The  references   are  to   the  years  of

business, as:

Printed and published from------ to -■-----.

It must not however be understood that the Printing always extended over the whole of the period
quoted.     In many cases, the Stationer had a printing press only in the latter part of his career.
 

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