Liber C, folio 183 verso
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber C
Date: 1595-1620
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber C, fol. 183v
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The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers has graciously contributed the above image from their collections to Shakespeare Documented under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. For any further use, visitors should contact the Clerk of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers at clerk@stationers.org.
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber C
Date: 1595-1620
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber C, fol. 183v
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers' Register entry for the Sonnets," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/428.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 183 verso. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/428.
On May 20, 1609, a publisher named Thomas Thorpe entered a book entitled "Shakespeare's sonnettes" into Liber C of the Stationers' Company. He published the first quarto edition of the poems, printed by George Eld, later in 1609. This is one of the four times Shakespeare's name appears in the Stationers' Register during his lifetime. His name also appears in two later entries for the First Folio and Two Noble Kinsmen.
Liber C and the other registers with Shakespeare’s works are still kept by the Stationers’ Company in their archives.
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[Current transcription based on Arber; check back soon for a transcription that conforms to Shakespeare Documented conventions]
1609 .7. Regis
19 maij
Richard Bonyon Entred for his copie vnder the handes of
Mr Etkins and mr Lownes warden
A Relation of A muder done in
Rickland inNorffolk vppon one
Mr James A minster by one
Lowe Clerk vppon
Twelfnight Last vjd
20 Maij
Th. Thorpe Entred for his copie vnder the
handes mr Wilson and mr
Lownes Warden a Booke
G*S called Shakepeares sonnetts vjd
22o Maij
Joseph Hunt Entred for their Copy vnder the handes of
John Trundle Th'wardens a booke called The apprehension,
arraignmente and execucon of Morgan Colman
for the murther of Helen Hunte and Alice
Burnam her servante. who was executed at
Armen in Zealand neere Middleboroughe vjd
25to Maij
Ri. Bonion Entred for their Copy vnder the handes of mr
Hen. Walley Wilson and mr warden Lownes A letter
lately written from a merchant of Geneva
to his freind a merchant in London
touchinge the discouery of a late plott for
the surprisinge of Geneva vjd /.
29mo Maij
Mr Warterson Entred for his Copy vnder th'andes of master
Gabriell Powell and Th'wardens a booke
called, master Blagraues Arte of Dyallinge vjd /.
Leo: Becket Entred for his copy vnder th'andes of mr Ri.
Etkins and Th'wardens a booke called the
Philosophers banquett vjd /.
William White Entred for his Copy vnder the handes of mr Wilson
& Th' wardens. a booke called the first parte of
the Hystorye of Don Silues de Silva &c vjd /.
Sources
Edward Arber, ed,. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London: 1554–1640 A.D. 5 vols. (London: privately printed, 1875–94): 3:410.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "The Reign of King Edward the Third," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "952. The Reign of King Edward III," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 3, 1590-1597 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 227-232.
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