Shelfmark
P.Rox.1914.OS
Main entry--corporate name
Title
A transcript of the registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers : from 1640-1708 A.D. : in three volumes.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : privately printed, 1913-14.
Physical description
3 v : facsim. ; 36 cm.
Series statement
(Roxburghe Club)
Note
"The foregoing three volumes ... are compiled from mss. contributed by Charles Robert Rivington ... clerk to the Stationers' Company (1869) and read on his behalf and collated with the original by Helena Salome Dickin, corrector of the press. They were set up in type and printed by ... journeyman printers, apprentices and freemen of the Staioners' Company ... under the superintendence of Thomas Edward Wells ... in the Bible office of His Majesty's printers ... 1913-14."--Colophon.
Note
Supplements the Transcript of the registers from 1554-1640, published by Arber in 1875-1894.
Note
Edited for the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Briscoe Eyre; entries transcribed by H.R. Plomer.
Note
Pagination: xi, 488; 512; 500 p.
Note
Quarter dark brown leather binding, with paper covered boards.
Formatted contents note
No display constant generated: Contents: I. 4 November 1640-3 July 1655.--II. 4 July 1655-3 July 1675.--III. 8 July 1675-7 March 1708.
Provenance
M. R. James's copy.
Provenance
Circular Eton bookplate on front pastedown with "gift of Provost James" in ms.
Provenance
[Vol. 1] Loosely inserted typed letter from J. B. Nichols & Son to Montagu Rhodes James, regarding the binding of these volumes, dated May 20, 1914; ms. "Montague Rhodes James, Esq. volume I returned herewith," at foot of letter.
Subject
Subject
English literature 18th century Bibliography.
Subject
English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 Bibliography.
Subject
Printing Great Britain History.
Subject
Publishers and publishing Great Britain.
Subject
Booksellers and bookselling Great Britain.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Plomer, Henry R. (Henry Robert), 1856 - 1928 transcriber.
Added entry--name
James, M.R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862 - 1936 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
J. B. Nichols and Sons publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B44624