BUTTERWORTH AND COMPANY (CANADA)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/034-02
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: BUTTERWORTH AND COMPANY (CANADA)
Date(s)	: 1912-1980
Level of description	: Collection View parent record
Extent	: 12 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Butterworth and Co (Canada) | publishers

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The company was set up to trade in Canada as a limited liability company in 1912. Until the 1950s it concentrated on selling English legal textbooks rather than publishing Canadian law books. In 1927 Stanley Shaw Bond changed the name of Butterworth and Company (Canada) to Butterworth and Company (Publishers) and therefore the Canadian company took over Bond's personal business.

For some years Butterworth and Company (Publishers) continued to operate in Canada and kept separate accounts relating to the Canadian business. In 1931 a company was incorporated in Ontario to take over the Canadian operation.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Butterworth and Company (Canada) including licence to trade; financial accounts; auditor's reports; sales analysis; correspondence; and recollections of the general manager of the Canadian office, 1911-1957.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions governing access:

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The records were deposited in Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section in 1991-2 and 2003. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

CLC/B/034-01: Butterworth and Co. (Publishers);
CLC/B/034-03: Butterworth and Co. (Australia);
CLC/B/034-04: Butterworth and Co. (New Zealand);
CLC/B/034-05 Butterworth and Co. (India);
CLC/B/034-06: Butterworth and Co. (Overseas);
CLC/B/034-07: Butterworth and Co. (South Africa)(Pty);
CLC/B/034-08: Butterworth's Scientific Publications;
CLC/B/034-09: Butterworth's Technical Books;
CLC/B/034-10: Charles Bond Ltd;
CLC/B/034-11: Chemindex Ltd;
CLC/B/034-12: William Clowes and Sons;
CLC/B/034-13: Coke Press;
CLC/B/034-14: R.J.Acford Ltd;
CLC/B/034-15: Research and Development Ltd;
CLC/B/034-16: Shaw and Sons Ltd;
CLC/B/034-17: Butterworth, Inc;
CLC/B/034-18 Justice of the Peace, Ltd.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
November 2010 to January 2011.