Perkins Bacon Great Britain Line-Engraved Postage Stamp Printing 1840-1846

Following the invention of paper, through to the delivery of the public label to the Post Offices throughout the United Kingdom, this publication provides an in depth understanding behind the ownership of Rush Mill and the delivery of paper supplies to Perkins Bacon.

The inclusion of previously unpublished archival material, in conjunction with records and letters, not only provides a greater understanding of the development of the Public Label, but together with the discovery of rotating night shifts has enabled a comprehensive interpretation of Perkins Bacon printing records, in turn leading to the possible resolution of various matters which have long perplexed philatelists.

By the discovery of Exchequer Bill printing, both the Postage Room security and working hours are uncovered. Edwin Hill’s notes on the security at Rush Mill, and gumming are also published.

The number of sheets printed by each printer, plate and press are stated and reconciled, both to the warranted paper supplied by the Warehousekeeper, but also to the impressions charged by Perkins Bacon to the Commissioners of the Stamps & Taxes Office.

Through analysis of the historical records a clearer understanding of both the 1844 building works and financial position of Perkins Bacon is presented.

The biographic details provide evidence of Jacob Perkins first potential meeting with Joshua Bacon, striking proofs of the ‘City Medal’ and Rowland Hill’s thumb print.

Alan Druce has been a member of the Royal Philatelic Society London since 2009, and whilst his specialist collection area covers the Line-engraved Registration specimens of 1841–1878, his extensive collection of Great Britain covers 1403 to 2009. Alan is also a member of the Great Britain Philatelic Society and two societies within the vicinity of his home. In addition to displays at philatelic societies, he has received Gold medals for national exhibits, and is currently a Federation judge.

Having left full-time education, Alan was employed by a local firm of Chartered Accountants, attaining fellowship of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales in January 1979, becoming a partner in the firm in April 1979 (at the age of 26). In June 1986 Alan established his own private accountancy practice, and although retiring from the Institute in 2007, Alan continues to advise individuals and corporate bodies, many of whom he has known for the past 39 years.

For 16 years Alan was a member of a local Round Table, holding the positions of fundraiser, Treasurer, Secretary and in his final year was elected as the Table’s fifth Honorary President. Alan’s previous interests have included trail-biking, karting and motorbikes. His current interests extend to football, gardening and music.

Alan has been married to Virginia for 42 years, they have a son, daughter, two grandsons (cousins born 80 minutes apart), and two granddaughters.

Volume 1
Foreword
Preface

• Research Platforms
• Background
• Initial Steps and Problems
• The Paper Trail
• The Printing of the Plates
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements

Introductory Notes

• Eminent Individuals
• Timeline of events
• Timeline covering the development of the Public Label
• List of Abbreviations and Definitions
• Glossary

Chapter 1

• The Origins of Paper and Papermaking
• The Origins of Paper
• The Historical Spread of Papermaking
• The First Printing Press
• Papermaking in Great Britain and Ireland 1476–1700
• The Mills of South Buckinghamshire
• Henry Portal
• James Whatman and Wove Paper
• Papermaking in Great Britain and Ireland 1800–1900
• The Cycle Complete
• Timeline in Papermaking

Chapter 2

• Paper Duty
• Introduction
• An outline of paper duty
• The Abolition of paper duty
• Stacey Wise and Rush Mill
• Perkins Bacon

Chapter 3

• Papermaking by Hand in 1833

Chapter 4

• The Wise Family, their Mills and Perkins Bacon
• Introduction
• The Ancestry of Stacey Wise
• Padsole Mill – John Wise and John Hayes (1798–1804)
• Padsole Mill – Stacey Wise and Charles Wise (1804–1816)
• Cobtree and Otham Mills (1813–1816)
• The Family of Stacey Wise
• Padsole Mill and Otham Mill – Stacey Wise and Charles Brenchley (1816–1824)
• Stacey Wise in Maidstone (1824–1833)
• The First Business Links of Stacey Wise and Perkins Bacon
• Stacey Wise and Elizabeth Wise – Rush Mill (1833–1861)
• Rush Mill (1861–1881)
• Stacey’s Family Trust and the involvement of Perkins Bacon in the management of Rush Mill
• Conclusion
• Stacey’s Children
• Timeline for the Wise Family and their Mills

Chapter 5

• The History of Rush Mill
• The Mill’s Origin
• Francis Hayes
• John Hayes
• Stacey Wise and his Descendants
• Government Security at Rush Mill
• The Family Conclusion
• Paper Supplies to Perkins Bacon 1841–1843
• After 1881 to 2018
• Timeline in the History of Rush Mill

Chapter 6

• Transport links from Rush Mill
• Introduction
• The Fly-boats
• The Grand Junction Canal and the Blisworth Tunnel
• The Railways
• Transportation Reviewed
• The Paddington Basin
• Conclusion
• Timeline in Transportation from Rush Mill

Chapter 7

• Somerset House and The Stamp Office
• Edwin Hill – his diary and subsequent journals
• Edwin Hill’s role at Somerset House
• Somerset House
• The Thames Embankment
• The Stamp Office
• The Stamp Office Warehouse
• The Regent’s Canal and Commercial Road
• Stamp Office Administration
• Post 54/5
• Timeline covering the evolution of H.M. Revenue & Customs

Chapter 8

• Government Contracts for the Supply of Paper 
• The First Government Contract for the Supply of Crown Watermarked Paper
• Experimental Paper
• The New Paper of 17 August 1840

Chapter 9

• The Issuing of Warrants for the Impression of the Sheets
• Background
• Locating the Issued Warrants
• Joshua Bacon’s letter explaining the Control of Warranted Paper
• Warrants prepared but never issued for impression
• The Missing Warrants of January 1843 to June 1844
• Warrants 6 to 12 of 1844

Chapter 10

• Treble and New Paper
• Treble and New Paper
• The Dublin Find

Chapter 11

• Night and Day Working
• Background
• May and June 1840
• Night Working Reconsidered
• Reappraisal of continual night work  
• Later periods
• The Printer’s Standard Pay Rate

Chapter 12

• Plate Registration
• Introduction
• The Definition of ‘Imprimatur’
• Historical Background Legislation and the Five Government Contracts
• The Commissioner’s Endorsement
• The Inter-relationship of Endorsement and Printing
• The Commissioners presence at the taking of the Impression and their Endorsement
• Interpreting the Printing Records
• A new hypothesis for the second endorsement dated 27 April 1840
• The VR Registrations
• The Final Registered Sheets

Chapter 13

• Returning the Sheets to the Stamp Office
• Gumming of the sheets
• The First Contract Amendment
• An Incorrect Recording of 1,000 Blue Sheets
• 1,957 Blue Sheets omitted from charge to the Stamps & Taxes Office

Chapter 14

• The Stamp Office Distributors and the Post Offices
• Introduction
• Stamp Office Distributors and Sub-Distributors
• The Issuing of Licences
• Distribution of Stamps and Rural Post Offices
• Rowland Hill’s plan for weekly reports from the Stamp Office
• Monthly and Quarterly Returns of Stamps
• Return of Letters
• Requisition Forms
• Letters of Receipts
• Conclusion
• Further Research

Chapter 15

• The Evolution of the Public Label 1839–1840
• Overview
• Background
• The initiation of Rowland Hill’s Plan
• Development of the Public Label – August 1839 – 31 December 1839
• Development of the Public Label – January 1840
• Development of the Public Label – February 1840
• Development of the Public Label – March 1840
• Development of the Public Label – April 1840
• The Rainbow Trials
• Working Hours and Security
• The Early Public Label Presses
• The Plates
• Paper and Metal prices

Chapter 16

• Printings from 11 April 1840 to 23 March 1841
• Printers seniority, holiday periods and loans
• 1d Black Plate 1
• Restricted supply of paper
• The Repair of 1d Black Plate 1
• 1d Black Plate 1b
• The VR Official Plate
• 1d Black Plate 2
• The Repair of 1d Black Plate 2
• 2d Blue Plate 1
• 1d Black Plate 3
• 1d Black Plate 4
• 1d Black Plate 5
• 1d Black Plate 6
• 1d Black Plate 7
• 2d Blue Plate 2
• 1d Black Plate 8
• 1d Black Plate 9
• 1d Black Plate 10
• 1840 1d Black Printings – Canvas of scarcity
• Comparison to previous research material
• Pressure on Banknote and commercial printings
• The First Closure Period – 30 August 1840 to 23 September 1840
• Soft or Hardened before impressing?
• Control of Production by the Stamps & Taxes Office
• The Christmas Closure – Graham at Press – 30 December 1840 to 2 January 1841
• Plate 11 and the 1841 Printings in red – 4 January 1841 to 23 March 1841
• 2d Blue Plate 3
• 1d Red Plate 12
• Conclusion

Chapter 17

• Printings of the VR Official and Two Pence Blue
• The excess of VR Official printings
• Printings of the Two Pence Blue – Plates 1 and 2
• Two Pence Blue Plate 3 

Chapter 18

• The Final Black and First Red Printings
• The Final Black Printings
• The first red impressions of 1841
• The reverse of Warrant 38 and the Blue Specimen sheet
• Summary of the black and red impressions from Warrants 38 and 39

Chapter 19

• Printings for the Post Office Circulars
• The April 1840 Circular
• The Circular of 7 May 1840
• The Irish Circulars and the Dublin Find of VR Officials
• The Circulars for England, Wales and Scotland
• The Excess Sheets
• Impressing the Red Sheets for the 1841 Circulars
• Warrant 2 – Impressing The Two Pence Blue Trials with void corners
• The Distribution and Use of the Two Pence Blue Trials with void corners
• Previous Research and Consideration of the Small Trial Printings

Chapter 20

• Provisional Black Printings in 1841

Chapter 21

• Red Printings 1841–1846
• The Early Impressions
• Plate 5
• Plate 9
• The Unrecorded Plates
• Comparison of wages and printing records for April 1844 and May 1844
• Rotating shifts in June 1844 – prior to the closure for the new building work
• Reconciling 22 April 1844 to 6 July 1844
• The ‘missing’ 400 sheets from Chapter 9
• Corbett’s pay
• The Blue Printings
• Printings subsequent to 15 May 1845
• Discrepancies in Registration Dates
• Disparities in Printing Dates
• Plate Storage and Destruction

Chapter 22

• Plate Repairs 1840–1841
• Background
• Plates 5 and 6 Black Printing Repairs
• Plate 8 Black Printing Repairs
• Plate 9 Black Printing Repairs
• Plate 1b Red 1841 Printing – Second and Third Repairs
• Plate 2 Red 1841 Printing – Second Repair
• Plates 5 Red 1841 Printing Repairs
• Plate 8 Red 1841 Printing Repairs
• Plate 9 Red 1841 Printing Repairs
• Plate 10 Red 1841 Printing Repairs
• Repairs subsequent to 23 March 1841

Chapter 23

• Spoilt Sheets and Defective Paper
• Background
• Spoilt Sheets
• Defective Paper
• Destruction of the Sheets
• Calculation of Spoilt Sheets and Defective Paper
• Edwin Hill’s notes on gumming

Chapter 24

• Commissioners’ Accounts and Payments
• The First Monthly Accounts
• Later Accounts
• The Preparation of Quarterly Accounts

Chapter 25

• Graham’s Final Recorded Entries

Chapter 26

• Production and Delivery Totals Disclosing Closure Periods
• Understanding and Reconciling Edward Denny Bacon
• The Production Levels Revealed
• The Closure Periods Identified
• The Royal Coat of Arms
• The 1844 Building Works
• The Printers’ Holidays
• Post 54/5
• The Seventh Press

Chapter 27

• Exchequer Bill Printing
• The Smith’s Fraud Case
• Edwin Hill’s Journal
• Perkins Bacon Correspondence – 8 January 1842 to 18 February 1842
• The Engraving Book records and Proof Bills
• Exchequer Bill printing records
• Exchequer Bills and Specimens of 1842
• Taxation of Exchequer Bill Interest
• The Conclusion of Exchequer Bill Printing 
• The Perkins Bacon Fire of 1857
• The Office of the Comptroller General of the Exchequer (1834–1866)
• Office Locations

Chapter 28

• Financial Records and Accounts of Perkins Bacon
• Introduction
• Partnership Profit and Loss Accounts and Balance Sheets
• Public Label Income relative to Printing Income
• Staff Weekly Wages 
• The Salaries of Joshua Bacon and Henry Petch
• 6 Francis Street, Regent Square
• New North Road, Hoxton – The Ink Manufactory
• Water Lane (Whitefriars Street) and Fleet Street
• Partnership changes – May 1845
• Conclusion

Chapter 29

• Conclusion

Volume 2
Appendix 1

• Presses, Plates and Printers 1840–1846
• Colour Key to Appendix 1
• Reconciliation of Appendices

Appendix 2

• Warrants Delivered, Daily Printings, Paper Stocks and Impressed Sheets
• Quarterly Summary
• Annual Summary

Appendix 3

• Quarterly Printing Summary
• Appendix 3.1. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 11 April 1840 to 4 July 1840
• Appendix 3.2. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 5 July 1840 to 10 October 1840
• Appendix 3.3. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 11 October 1840 to 12 January 1841
• Appendix 3.4. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 13 January 1841 to 5 April 1841
• Appendix 3.5. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 6 April 1841 to 26 June 1841
• Appendix 3.6. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 27 June 1841 to 5 October 1841
• Appendix 3.7. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 6 October 1841 to 4 January 1842 
• Appendix 3.8. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 5 January 1842 to 24 March 1842 
• Appendix 3.9. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 26 March 1842 to 29 June 1842 
• Appendix 3.10. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 30 June 1842 to 3 October 1842
• Appendix 3.11. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 4 October 1842 to 24 December 1842 
• Appendix 3.12. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 25 December 1842 to 6 April 1843
• Appendix 3.13. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 7 April 1843 to 7 July 1843 
• Appendix 3.14. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 8 July 1843 to 10 October 1843
• Appendix 3.15. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 11 October 1843 to 10 January 1844
• Appendix 3.16. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 11 January 1844 to 22 March 1844
• Appendix 3.17. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 23 March 1844 to 6 July 1844 
• Appendix 3.18. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 7 July 1844 to 14 October 1844
• Appendix 3.19. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 15 October 1844 to 21 December 1844
• Appendix 3.20. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 22 December 1844 to 2 April 1845
• Appendix 3.21. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 3 April 1845 to 25 June 1845 
• Appendix 3.22. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 26 June 1845 to 27 September 1845
• Appendix 3.23. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 28 September 1845 to 20 December 1845
• Appendix 3.24. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 21 December 1845 to 5 April 1846

Appendix 4

• Quarterly Summaries by Printer and Plate
• Appendix 4.1. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records:  11 April 1840 to 4 July 1840
• Appendix 4.2. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 5 July 1840 to 10 October 1840
• Appendix 4.3. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 11 October 1840 to 12 January 1841
• Appendix 4.4. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 13 January 1841 to 5 April 1841
• Appendix 4.5. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 6 April 1841 to 26 June 1841
• Appendix 4.6. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 27 June 1841 to 5 October 1841
• Appendix 4.7. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 6 October 1841 to 4 January 1842
• Appendix 4.8. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 5 January 1842 to 24 March 1842 
• Appendix 4.9. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 26 March 1842 to 29 June 1842 
• Appendix 4.10. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 30 June 1842 to 3 October 1842 
• Appendix 4.11. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 4 October 1842 to 24 December 1842 
• Appendix 4.12. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 25 December 1842 to 6 April 1843
• Appendix 4.13. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 7 April 1843 to 7 July 1843
• Appendix 4.14. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 8 July 1843 to 10 October 1843
• Appendix 4.15. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 11 October 1843 to 10 January 1844
• Appendix 4.16. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 11 January 1844 to 22 March 1844
• Appendix 4.17. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 23 March 1844 to 6 July 1844
• Appendix 4.18. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 7 July 1844 to 14 October 1844
• Appendix 4.19. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 15 October 1844 to 21 December 1844
• Appendix 4.20. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 22 December 1844 to 2 April 1845
• Appendix 4.21. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 3 April 1845 to 25 June 1845
• Appendix 4.22. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 26 June 1845 to 27 September 1845
• Appendix 4.23. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 28 September 1845 to 20 December 1845
• Appendix 4.24. Summary of Perkins Bacon Records: 21 December 1845 to 5 April 1846
• Sheets Printed per Printing Records 1 April 1846 to 6 April 1846

Appendix 5

• Plate Details – 1d Black, 2d Blue & VR
• 1d Black Plate 1a
• 1d Black Plate 1b
• 1d Black Plate 2
• 1d Black Plate 3
• 1d Black Plate 4
• 1d Black Plate 5
• 1d Black Plate 6
• 1d Black Plate 7
• 1d Black Plate 8
• 1d Black Plate 9
• 1d Black Plate 10
• 1d Black Plate 11
• 2d Blue Plate 1
• 2d Blue Plate 2
• 2d Blue Plate 3
• 1d VR Plate A
• 2d Blue Trial Plate of 12

Appendix 6

• Plate Details – 1d Red
• 1d Red Plate 1b
• 1d Red Plate 2
• 1d Red Plate 5
• 1d Red Plate 8
• 1d Red Plate 9
• 1d Red Plate 10
• 1d Red Plate 11
• 1d Red Plate 12
• 1d Red Plate 13
• 1d Red Plate 14
• 1d Red Plate 15
• 1d Red Plate 16
• 1d Red Plate 17
• 1d Red Plate 19
• 1d Red Plate 20
• 1d Red Plate 21
• 1d Red Plate 22
• 1d Red Plate 23
• 1d Red Plate 24
• 1d Red Plate 25
• 1d Red Plate 26
• 1d Red Plate 27
• 1d Red Plate 28
• 1d Red Plate 29
• 1d Red Plate 30
• 1d Red Plate 31
• 1d Red Plate 32
• 1d Red Plate 33
• 1d Red Plate 34
• 1d Red Plate 35
• 1d Red Plate 36
• 1d Red Plate 37
• 1d Red Plate 38
• 1d Red Plate 39
• 1d Red Plate 40
• 1d Red Plate 41
• 1d Red Plate 42
• 1d Red Plate 43
• 1d Red Plate 44
• 1d Red Plate 45
• 1d Red Plate 46
• 1d Red Plate 47
• 1d Red Plate 48
• 1d Red Plate 49
• 1d Red Plate 50
• 1d Red Plate 51
• 1d Red Plate 52
• 1d Red Plate 53
• 1d Red Plate 54
• 1d Red Plate 55
• 1d Red Plate 56
• 1d Red Plate 57
• 1d Red Plate 58
• 1d Red Plate 59
• 1d Red Plate 60
• 1d Red Plate 61
• 1d Red Plate 62
• 1d Red Plate 63
• 1d Red Plate 64
• 1d Red Plate 65
• 1d Red Plate 66
• 1d Red Unknown Plate
• Summary of Sheets Listed in Appendices 5 and 6 by Plate and Printer

Appendix 7

• Summary of Warrants Issued, Spoilt Sheets and Returns

Appendix 8

• Summary of Usage by Plate

Appendix 9

• Perkins Bacon Receipts

Appendix 10

• Rowland Hill’s Reports
• Introduction
• Report from Rowland Hill on the Franking Stamps
• Results of Treasury Competition and introduction of Uniform Penny Post
• Report on the Distribution of Franking Stamps
• Second Report on the Distribution of Postage Stamps
• Rowland Hill’s Petition to the House of Commons, 10 April 1843 

Appendix 11

• Rush Mill Paper Supplies and the Debt of Stacey Wise

Appendix 12

• Copies Removed from the Registration Sheets
• Exhibitions and Removals
• Eminent Collectors of Registration Copies
• The Registration Sheets removals reconsidered

Appendix 13

• Perkins Bacon Country Banknote Printings
• Introduction
• Perkins, Fairman and Heath – Bolton Bank (Hardcastle, Cross & Co)
• Perkins, Fairman and Heath – York Bank
• Perkins & Heath – Halifax Bank
• Perkins & Heath – Saddleworth Bank
• Perkins & Heath – Saffron Walden & North Essex Bank
• Perkins & Heath – Tweed Bank
• Perkins, Bacon & Petch – Stourbridge & Kidderminster Banking Company

Appendix 14

• The Work of Jacob Perkins and Perkins Bacon
• Introduction
• Jacob Perkins’ Ancestral Heritage
• 1819 Bank of England Report
• 1820 Perkins, Fairman and Heath’s Siderographic Plan
• Jacob Perkins’ Parisian visit of 1822 and French Patent
• Perkins, Fairman and Heath 1821 Circular of charges
• Specimens extracted from Thomas Joplin’s Essays on Banking
• Specimens extracted from the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
• Jacob Perkins’ Patents
• 1827 Impressing Stamp duty on bank notes
• Scottish and Overseas banknotes
• Religious Belief
• Later Examples
• Jacob Perkins' influence on American designs
• Further research material

Appendix 15

• Exchequer Bill Proofs and Specimens
• Introduction
• Perkins Bacon Archival Records Correspondence re Exchequer Bill plates

Appendix 16

• Shareholders’ Biographies 1819–1887
• Introduction
• George Heath (1779–1852)
• Douglas Heath (1811–1897)
• Colonel John Drinkwater (1762–1844) and John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune (1801–1851)
• Henry Malden (1800–1876)
• Charles Edward Malden (1845–1927)
• Bethune College
• Business Profit Shares
• Biography of James Dunbar Heath (1853–1936)
• Government Contracts for the printing of Postage Labels
• Conclusion
• Timeline

Appendix 17

• Family Trees
• Families Included
• Descendants of Thomas Wright Hill and Sarah Lea
• Descendants of Jacob Perkins and Hannah Greenleaf
• Descendants of James Heath and Elizabeth Thomas
• Descendants of John Drinkwater and Eleanor Congalton

Appendix 18

• The Printers of Perkins Bacon
• Background
• The Lambeth Cholera Epidemic
• Biographies of Printers Employed by Perkins Bacon
• Perkins Bacon Printing Records

Appendix 19

• Dramatis Personae
• Introduction
• Henry Corbould (1787–1844)
• Charles Heath (1785–1848)
• Frederick Heath (1810–1878)
• Henry Petch (1798–1852)
• Jacob Perkins (1766–1849)
• Joshua Bacon (1793–1863)
• Jacob Perkins Bacon (1821–1890)
• Edwin Hill (1793–1876)
• Rowland Hill (1795–1878)
• William Leader Maberly (1798–1885)
• William Mulready (1786–1863)
• Charles Pressly (1794–1880)
• William Wyon (1795–1851)
• Edward Denny Bacon (1860–1938)

Appendix 20

• Wages Records 1840 to 1843
• Period 11 April 1840 to 23 March 1841
• Period 11 April 1840 to 4 July 1840
• Period 5 July 1840 to 10 October 1840
• Period 11 October 1840 to 12 January 1841
• Period 13 January 1841 to 5 April 1841
• Period 6 April 1841 to 26 June 1841
• Period 27 June 1841 to 5 October 1841
• Period 6 October 1841 to 4 January 1842
• Period 5 January 1842 to 24 March 1842
• Period 26 March 1842 to 29 June 1842
• Period 30 June 1842 to 3 October 1842
• Period 4 October 1842 to 24 December 1842
• Period 25 December 1842 to 6 April 1843
• Conclusion

Appendix 21

• Selected Bibliography
• Handbooks
• Journals and Periodicals
• Institutional

Appendix 22

• Perkins Bacon Records
• Background
• Letter Book Draft Books 1822–1864
• Monthly Cash Book 1836–1841
• Ledger F 1841–1848 to Ledger N 1887–1892
• Journal F Daily Account Book 1841–1848
• Weekly Account of Work 1832–1843 and 1861–1910
• Printing Account Books 1840–1888
• Correspondence to Wise re paper 1880 and 1881
• Engraving Books 1828–1935
• Hardening Books 1863–1929
• General Account of Postage Labels 1840
• Daily Printing Records 1841–1870
• Postage Stamp Book (Stamp Printing and Gumming) 1850–1875
• Printing Journal Vols. 1 to 14 1842–1930
• Printing Warrants, 1840 to 1845
• Ancillary Records
• Listing of Perkins Bacon Records

Index