Liber D, page 21
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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. 21
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. 21
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers' Register entry for Othello," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/434.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber D, page 21. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/434.
Othello was first entered into Liber D of the Stationers' Company on October 6, 1621. Thomas Walkley, the publisher who entered the title, entered it as "The Tragedie of Othello, the moore of Venice." Walkley issued the first quarto edition in 1622, after which it was included in the First Folio of 1623. The play appeared in a second quarto edition before 1641, as well as in the Second Folio.
Liber D and the other registers with Shakespeare’s works are still kept by the Stationers’ Company in their archives.
[This transcription is pending final vetting]
[Current transcription based on Arber; check back soon for a transcription that conforms to Shakespeare Documented conventions]
10th September. 1621 Regni Regis Jacobi 18 &c 21
Mr Waterson Mr Entred for their Copie vnder the
& others ; patinors in hands of Mr Doctor Goad and Mr knight
the Latine stocke. / warden, A booke called Pietas Casauboni. . .vjd
18o Septembris 1621
John. Norton. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of
Sir Geo. Bucke and bothe the wardens
A booke called the pilgrim of Casteell or
the Fortunes of Liamphilus and Nisa but
not to be printed by order from the wardens
vntill he bringeth more sufficient authority. . . vjd
Rob. Swaine. Assigned ouer vnto him by Barnard
Alsope and Consent of a Court holden
this Day A booke called A table booke
for Princes provided that Barnard
Alsop shall haue the printing thereof
from time to time Doeing of it worke=
man like, and as reasonably as any other. . . .vjd.
20. Sept. 1621
Mr Sam: Man Entered for his Copie vnder the handes of
Mr Doctor GOADE and Mr warden Swinhowe
An exposicon vpon the 13. 14. 15. 16 chapters
of saint Paule to the Romans by.
Mr. Pare. . . .vjd.
Henry Holland Entred for his Copie vnder the hand of
Mr knight warden The portrature of
the king and queene of Bohemia &
their Children grauen in wood
Henry. Charles. Robert. Maurice and
Elizabeth . . . . . vjd
26. Septembris 1621
Wm Sheffard Entred for his copie vnder the hands of Mr
Doctor Goad, and both the wardens, A booke
called, The Sinne vnto death, written by
Tho. Bedford Mr of Arts in Queenes Colledge
in Cambridge . . . . vjd
4o Octobris. 1621
Rich: Badger Entred for his Copie vnder the hands of Both
the wardens, All Billes belonging to Beadles of
Companies for Summoning the freeman of their
Companies, for their appearance on quarter daies . vjd
6o Octobris 1621
Tho: Walkley Entred for his copie vnder the handes
of Sir George Buck, and Mr Swinhowe
warden, The Tragedie of Othello, the moore of
G*S moore of Venice. . . . 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), 4:59.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "Othello, the Moor of Venice," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "1437. The Moor of Venice," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 5, 1603-1608 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 129-135.
Last updated February 8, 2020
