Profit and loss accounts 1950-1953. Also includes application to Rehabilitation Department, September 1947 for printing plant; balance sheet and trading account 1949; detailed list of plant as at 30 June 1950; bank rec. statements 1953-1954; Estimated Income and expenditure of printing business to be purchased and operated by Mr R.W. Lowry, 1l typescript (prior to Pilgrim venture?); solicitor's account for £1700 dated 16 October 1953., 1947 - 1953

The papers include personal material, business records, 'Here and Now' file, manuscripts offered to Lowry for publication, and samples of work from most of his presses, together with autobiographical material.

It is worth noting that the programmes for concerts and plays arranged chronologically in Section A, have detailed descriptions only until 1948. Due to the large number of programmes dating from after 1948 it was necessary to provide only a brief description e.g. Programmes 1949, 3 items, for each folder.

The following printing terms as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary have been used to describe material in this collection:

Broadsheet: a piece of paper printed on one side only, usually large.

Dodger: a small circular or hand bill.

Leaf: One of the folds of a folded sheet of paper.

Prospectus: A description of the chief features of a forthcoming work, circulated for the purpose of obtaining support or subscriptions.