Dee
Joseph Blades was a clerk in Her Majesty's Stationary Office ...I wonder if this has anything to do with him?
National archives
Blades & East of London EK-U1453/B3/15/156
Partnership in printing. [East Kent Archives Centre, Cobb of Margate, Family...] Date: 1831.
Copyright Office: Entry Forms, etc. COPY 1/377/23634
Photograph of ruins caused by fire at Mess'rs Blades, East & Blades, Finsbury, fire engine & fireman at right of picture." Copyright owner and author of work: William Wright, 98 Cheapside, London. Form Completed 11 September 1886. Registration Date: 1886.