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E. J. Arnold wholesale stationers

Archive Collection: MS 1563

Details

Type of record: Archive

Title: E. J. Arnold wholesale stationers

Level: Collection

Classmark: MS 1563

Date(s): 1903-1977

Language: English

Size and medium: 35 boxes and 1 mounted unframed photograph held on 11 shelves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7136

Description

Comprises wage books, invoices, miscellaneous company papers and reports, catalogues, examples of printing, correspondence, notes on company history, photographs (loose and in albums), slides, 2 reels of film, education textbook collection (including works by other publishers), press cuttings, and a copy of 'The month' for the years 1948-1975. 'The month' was the company's journal which contains reports on sales, exports and other company business.

Biography or history

The firm of E.J. Arnold Ltd began in 1863 when Edward James Arnold, a Dorset man, founded a small printing business at Barnstaple in Devon. In 1870 he transferred the business to Leeds, in order to broaden its scope, and shortly after this move, he decided to develop a trade with local schools, taking advantage of changes in the structure of education resulting from the 1870 Act. Within his lifetime, the company became the largest company in the field of educational publishing.

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