Liber C, folio 11 recto
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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. 11r
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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. 11r
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers’ Register entry for the transfer of Venus and Adonis in 1596," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/397.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 11 recto. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/397.
On June 25, 1596, the London printer and publisher John Harrison the Elder transferred his rights to print Shakespeare's poem Venus and Adonis to his colleague, William Leake, who printed the fifth edition in 1599. The poem was entered as "Venus and Adonis" in Stationers' Liber C. The printer Richard Field originally registered the poem on April 18, 1593, after which he printed the first quarto edition. He later transferred the rights to publish the poem to John Harrison, on June 25, 1594. Seventeen quarto editions were printed in total before 1641, and the poem's publishing rights in the Stationer's Register were transferred to several different tradesmen over the course of those years.
Liber C 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]
1596 38. Regni Regin Eliz: 11
Secundo die Junij./.
Raphe Blower and Entred for their Copie vnder th[e h]andes of Mr &
Tho. Purfoote Junior Hartwell and bothe the wardens a booke
intituled Anonymus his Remedies against
Discontentment . . . . . vjd./.
4to. Junij./
Tho. Chard. Entred for his copie vnder the handes
of my lordes grace of Canterbury
and the wardens, a booke Intituled
El Sancto Euangelio De
Jesu Christo segun San Mathei
&c and so the whole newe testament
to be printed in the Spanishe tonge . . . vjd
ix Junij [1596]
Mr Wyndett/ Entred for his copie by order from the
Lord Archbishop of Canterburye
and vnder the wardens handes a
booke intituled St Peters Chayne . . . vjd
25 Junij
William leeke Assigned ouer vnto him for his
copie from Mr harrison the elder,
in full Court holden this day. by
the said Mr harrisons consent.
A booke called. Venus and
Adonis . . . vjd
vltimo Junij
Mr Dawson Entred for his copie a booke called
Lyllies light . . vjd
3 Julij
Mr Windett Entred for his copie vnder the hand of the
L. Archbishop of Canterbury his graces
hand. A booke intituled. The
Jayllours Conuersion . . . 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): 3:65.
The British Library, "2. William Shakespeare's poems and sonnets," Rev. 1.0.1. Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto. Last modified December 2, 2004.<bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/poems.html>.
Last updated February 8, 2020
