NOVELLO AND COMPANY BUSINESS ARCHIVE. Vols. I-XVII. Commission Books; 1840-circa 1974. Records of royalty payments made to composers, listed by composer and work with, in most volumes, an index of composers and titles. Details include numbers of copies printed, numbers sold or given away, and prices charged. Names of purchasers of copyrights are included where appropriate. Later annotations often indicate where stock has been either returned to the author, sold to another publisher or destro...
NOVELLO AND COMPANY BUSINESS ARCHIVE. Vols. XVIII-XXX. Registers of works sent to New York for copyright; 1891-1947. Entered by title on printed forms giving composer, date of publication and number of copies sent. Indexes of composers from Add. 69537. With related typewritten correspondence inserted. Thirteen volumes. Bound. 172 x 175mm.
NOVELLO AND COMPANY BUSINESS ARCHIVE. Vols. XXXI-XXXV. Registers of works sent to New York for copyright: 'Authors works' [i.e. those works where composers retain ownership of copyright?]; 1891-1934. Entered by title on printed forms, with name of composer, etc., as Add. 69533-69545 above. With related correspondence. Five volumes. Bound.
NOVELLO AND COMPANY BUSINESS ARCHIVE. Vols. XXXIX-XLIX. Stock Books and index; 1870-1949. Listed by title, giving number of copies of a work printed, type of binding and the dates on which stock was sent from the warehouse, or destroyed. In some instances the name of the printer is also given. The system of entry is similar to that in Add. 69516-69532, with the same continuation of entries from one volume to another and overlapping dates. For a stock book immediately preceeding this series s...
NOVELLO AND COMPANY BUSINESS ARCHIVE. Vols. L-LII. Litho printing books and index; 1895-1951. Listed by title, recording date and number of copies printed. Entries continued, and dates overlapping, between the two volumes as in Add. 69516-69532 above. Three volumes. Bound. 390 x 260mm.
NOVELLO AND COMPANY BUSINESS ARCHIVE. Vols. LIII-LXI. Printing stock books and index; 1876-circa 1950. Arranged by title (or series title), with date and number of copies. System of entry and dating similar to Add 69516-69532. Some volumes are devoted to specific series, as indicated. Nine volumes. All except Add. 69576 bound. 380 x 270mm.
NOVELLO AND COMPANY BUSINESS ARCHIVE. Vols. LXII-LXIV. Plate books; begun 1911. Arranged alphabetically by composer, giving title, stock number of work, and number of plates. With some details of subsequent melting or transfer of plates. Three volumes. Bound. 390 x 260mm.