Liber D, page 69
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber D
Date: 1620-1645
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber D, p. 69
Terms of use
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 D
Date: 1620-1645
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber D, p. 69
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers' Register entry for the First Folio (16 of Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies)," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/435.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber D, page 69. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/435.
The First Folio, which represents the first printed collection of 16 of Shakespeare’s plays, was entered into Liber D of the Stationers' Company on November 8, 1623. Edward Blount and Isaac Jaggard, the London publishers who produced the First Folio, entered it as "Mr William Shakespeers Comedyes Histories, and Tragedyes." This is the first time Shakespeare's name appears in the Stationers' Register after his lifetime. His name also appears in four entries during his lifetime. The entry includes the following 16 plays (eight comedies, two histories, and six tragedies), noted as “not formerly entred to other men”: The Tempest; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Measure for Measure; The Comedy of Errors; As You Like It; All’s Well that Ends Well; Twelfth Night; The Winter’s Tale; Henry VI Part 3; Henry VIII; Coriolanus; Timon of Athens; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Antony and Cleopatra; and Cymbeline.
Liber D 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]
8o Novembris 1623 Regni Regis Jacobi 2jo 69
Roger Jackson Entred for his Copie vnder the hands of
Mr Bill warden, A Booke called
A Daylie exercise of Pietie Diuided into 4
parts, vizt. Confession of Sinnes Thanks=
giuing Prayers. Obseruation written in
Latine by John Gerard and translated into
English prouided he bring further authority
before it be printed . . . . vjd
12o Februarij 1624 Memorandum Doctor Ffeatlyes hand is to this booke
of Mr Jacksons
Mr Blounte Entred for their Copie vnder the hands
Isaak Jaggard of Mr Dor Worrall and Mr Cole
warden Mr William Shakspeers Comedyes
Histories & Tragedyes soe manie of the
said Copies as are not formerly entred to other men vizt . . . . vijd
G*S The Tempest
The two gentlemen of Verona
Measure for Measure
The Comedy of Errors
Comedyes As you like it
All’s well that ends well
Twelfe night
The winters tale
The thirde part of Henry the sixt
Histories Henry the eight
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Tragedies Julius Caesar
Mackbeth
Anthonie & Cleopatra
Cymbeline
11o Nouembris
Nath: Newburie Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of
Mr Dor ffeatlie and Mr Cole warden, A
Booke called, A sweet poesie for gods saints
to smell on, conteyninge manie sweets and
choise flowers . . vjd
Nath: Butter Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of
Mr Cottington and Mr Cole warden, A
Booke Called, The Wonderfull resignation
of Mustapha and the advancinge of Amurath
a yonger Brother of the latelie deposed Osman . . . . vjd
14o Nouembris
Mr Jackson Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of
Mr Dor Peirce, and Mr Bill warden
A Booke called, An exposition vpon the ten
Comandements by Mr Peter Barker minister
at Storepaine in Dorcetshire . . . 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), 4:107.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Last updated September 27, 2023
