"While working at the Shakespeare Memorial Library in 1938-1939 and ever since after the War, I formed the habit of generally writing a second-hand card for items seen that had been printed or published in Stratford before c1850 and later extended to 1900 and filing them chronologically ... This list does not pretend to be complete and locations beyond the copy seen or mentioned are rarely mentioned ... After the War, the notes were extended to cover the whole county of Warwickshire with the exclusion of Birmingham, already admirably served in the lists at the ends of the Birmingham Reference Library's published catalogue of its local collection and supplement."--Foreword.

Includes "Appendix : Locations of the book trade in Stratford-upon-Avon to about 1900": p. 116-120.