Liber C, folio 248 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. 248v
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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. 248v
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers' Register entry for the transfer of Lucrece in 1614," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/430.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 248 verso. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/430.
The Rape of Lucrece was first entered into Liber B of the Stationer's Company on May 9, 1594 by John Harrison (known as "the Elder" to distinguish him from his brother of the same name, also a printer and publisher). The first quarto edition was printed later that same year by Richard Field, and sold by Harrison. In this entry on March 1, 1614, in Liber C, Harrison transferred the publication rights to the popular poem to Roger Jackson. Harrison had produced five quarto editions before transferring his rights, and Jackson produced a sixth quarto edition in 1616. The poem, dedicated to the Earl of Southampton, was printed in a total of eight quarto editions before 1641.
Liber C and the other registers with Shakespeare’s works are still kept by the Stationers’ Company in their archives.
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1 Martij 1613
Mr ffeild Entred for his Coppie by Consent of a Court
warden Trigonum Architectomium of the Carptenters
squire that is a table seruing for the mea =
suring of board, Glasse, Stone, and such
like playne and sollides, by Wm Bedwell . . . . vjd./
primo Martij. 1613.
Roger Jackson Entred for his Coppies by consent of
Mr John Harrison the eldest and by
order of a Court, these 4 bookes
followinge vizt . . . .ijd
Mascalles first booke of Cattell
Mr Dentes sermon of repentance
Records Arithmeticke
Lucrece
4to Martij 1613
John Hammon Entred for his Coppie vnder the hand
of master Dor Nidd and Mr warden
Ockold a booke Called verbum sempiternum
et salvator Mundi or the historye of
the old and new testament by John . . . vjd.
Taylor
John Beale Entred of his Coppie vnder the
handes of Mr Doctor Nidd and Mr
warden Ockold a booke ^called
a iewell for
gentlewomen with some verses
vpon certayne storyes of the bible . . . vjd
5o Martij 1613
Robert Wilson Entred for his Coppie vnder the handes of
the Lo. Bishoppe of London and Mr
warden ffeild the Chardg of sir
ffrancis bacon knight his Maiesties
Atturney Generall touching Duelle vpon
an Informacon in the star chamber against
Preist & Wright . . . vjd
Wm Arundell Entred for his Coppie vnder the handes
of Mr warden ffeild and Mr Adames
to be printed when it is further allowed
The prince of Conde first prince of the
blood his letter to the quene regent of
ffrance together with her answere there
vnto . . . vjd
8o Die Martij 1613
Sam. Macham Entred for his Coppie vnder the handes of Mr
Mason and Mr warden ffeild a booke
called Contemplacons vppon the principall
passages of the holye storye the second
volume in 4 bookes by Jos. Hall Dr of Diuinitie . . . 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): 3:542.
The British Library, "2. William Shakespeare's poems and sonnets," Rev. 1.0.1 in Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto. Last modified December 2, 2004. http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/poems.html.
Last updated July 14, 2020
