This blog post takes a closer look at Jesuit printing in Britain in the nineteenth century through looking at one of the bookplates found in the library at the British Jesuit Archives at 114 Mount Street, and the printing circumstances of two core Jesuit publications: Letters and Notices and the Provincial Calendars.

This year, 25 March marks 385 years since Fr Andrew White and his companions landed on St Clement’s Island on the Potomac River,...