Excerpt from William Strahan and His Ledgers: A Paper by R. A. Austen-Leigh, M.A., Read Before the Bibliographical Society, 18 December 1922
I am now extremely busy in getting the materials removed from the King's Printing House in Blackfriars Where it has been for over a century to the new building lately erected next my own house for that purpose. The old patent expires next Saturday.
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