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Estimate from Luzac & Company Ltd. to the Royal Asiatic Society for the cost of reprinting 500 copies of Poliak's publication, Feudalism in Egypt. This is annotated in pencil.

Correspondence between Abraham Poliak and the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, Diana Crawford, concerning the proposed reprint of Poliak's publication, Feudalism in Egypt, Syria, Palestine and the Lebanon 1250-1900 which had been published through the Society's Prize Publication Fund. There is also a small amount of correspondence from a Library in Lebanon who are requesting further copies of the original publication.

Correspondence between the Royal Asiatic Society and Fine Books Oriental concerning a catalogue for the offprints of the Society's Journal. The file contains both agreements and correspondence between the two parties as well as internal communication within the Royal Asiatic Society and administrative documents concerning preparation for a launch party for the catalogue. The correspondents include Valery Gibson and Gordon Calver for the Royal Asiatic Society and J.I. Somers for Fine Books Oriental. During this period Fine Books Oriental came under the Luzac's umbrella but continued to act independently.

Letter from W.L. Raynes, Clerk to the Trust, to C.A. Storey to inform Storey that he has received 25 bound copies of Mathnawi IV.7 and 12 bound copies of Kitab Al-Badi N.S.X. from Cox & Allen. He also sends Luzac's Sales Account to December 1941. He writes that Dow & Lester have despatched the brasses but they have not yet been received. With this letter is a copy of the Luzac Sales Account.

The Royal Asiatic Society has produced a Journal from the early years of its formation and continues to do so. This material covers the records made in the production, administration and distribution of the Journal.

Correspondence concerned with the publication of Gibb Memorial Series in 1942.

Correspondence concerned with the publication of Gibb Memorial Series in 1943.

Postcard from Luzac & Co. to C.A. Storey to thank him for supplying the details of the forthcoming volume from the Gibb Memorial Series which they will include n the next issue of their Oriental List.

The Gibb Memorial Trust was established in 1902 in memory of Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, a largely self-taught Arabic, Persian, and, above all, of Ottoman Turkish, died age 45 in 1901 and his mother established the Trust. These papers mainly cover the period 1927-1951 and consists of governance, finance and publication documents, produced mainly as a result of Charles Ambrose Storey's involvement as a Trustee of the Trust.

At various points in its history, the Royal Asiatic Society has entered into agreements for both reproduction of its Journal and sales of excess copies and offprints. This series contains the administrative documents available from those agreements.