Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd Archive Records of publishing company Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd and predecessors. The records were received in two batches, arranged as ROUTLEDGE A and ROUTLEDGE B. See the arrangement note below for further information. The records in this collection generally relate in some way to finance and the costs involved in producing books, plus sales, accounts, royalties, etc. They include author contracts for George Routledge & Co. (1853-1899) and Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd (1871-1911) which occasionally have letters attached, but there is no general series of correspondence or records of decision-making and the commissioning of works. Correspondence was at one time held by UCL but transferred to Reading University Library in 1988. The usual form of record-keeping used by all the firms was that of a dual series of files called Publication Books [similar to Stock Books] and Publication Account Books. Publication Books, giving details of print orders, binding orders, paper cost, reprinting cost and advertising, are arranged by the title of the work and the date of the first edition, with subsequent editions on the same page until the page was filled, when a new entry was begun further on. Publication Account Books give a detailed profit and loss account of each new volume published and their arrangement follows the pattern of the Publication Books. Confidential stock books from 1948 onwards were retained by Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. 1850-1984