Records of The Ancient House Bookshop (Ipswich) Ltd, booksellers, London, England

• Accounts 1976-1978

By 1976  , Deben Bookshop Ltd was established as booksellers and stationers in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. In 1978  , the company became known as the Ancient House Bookshop (Ipswich) Ltd with its registered offices at 187 Piccadilly, London, England. The company had a share capital of å£50,000 and the firm of William Collins, Sons & Co Ltd , publishers, Glasgow, Scotland, were represented on the board. William Collins had been a director of Deben Bookshop Ltd until his death in 1946 when his son, William J Collins, replaced him as a director. By 1978, the shop in Ipswich was employing 25 people.

By the late 1980s  , it appears that the bookshop had been sold and in 1990  William Collins, Sons & Co Ltd changed the name of the company to William Collins G(XVI) Ltd . This company was dissolved in 1993  .

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Deposit : William Collins, Sons & Co Ltd via BACS : 1987

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This collection forms part of the William Collins, Sons & Co Ltd finding aid (UGD 243) consisting of the records of that company and its related/subsidiary companies

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Description compiled in line with the following international standards: International Council on Archives,ISAD(G) Second Edition, September 1999 and National Council on Archives,Rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names

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Fonds level description compiled by David Powell, Hub Project Archivist, April 2003. Lower level description input by Emma Yan, Assistant Archivist (Cataloguing), 27 May 2008