- TitleCrosby Lockwood archive
- ReferenceMS 2775
- Production date1853-1886
- Creator
- Creator HistoryThe publishing firm of Lockwood & Co was established by Mark Lockwood in the early nineteenth century at 7 Stationers Hall Court. On his death in the 1850s his son Crosby Lockwood took over the running of the company and eventually changed the name of the firm to Crosby Lockwood & Co. The firm specialized in books on a wide range of technical subjects, school books and popular literature and continued until 1972 when it was taken over by Granada Publishing.
- Scope and ContentThe collection consists of copyright receipts and agreements, with related correspondence, covering the period 1853-1886. The correspondence is from or relates to several authors including Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, John Saunders, Marianne Thornton and Austin Dobson.
- Extent1 bound volume
- LanguageEnglish
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Content person
- System of arrangmentThe papers are bound chronologically
- Finding aidsThere are no finding aids available
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