Liber C, folio 31 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. 31r
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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. 31r
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers' Register entry for Henry IV Part 1," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/400.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 31 recto. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/400.
Henry IV Part 1 was entered into Liber C of the Stationers' Company on February 25, 1598, under the title "The historye of Henry the iiijth with his battaile of Shrewsburye against Henry Hottspurre of the Northe with the conceipted mirthe of Sir John Ffalstoff." Andrew Wise, the London publisher who entered the title, presumably sold the first quarto edition that was printed by Peter Short later that same year. As only four leaves of this quarto, commonly referred to as "quarto 0," survive, we cannot be sure. Short also printed the second quarto edition, sold by Wise and again printed in 1598. The play appeared in nine quarto editions before 1642, as well as in the First and Second Folios.
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]
1597 Annoque RR Eliz: 40./. 31
xxvto die ffebruarij
Andrew Wyse./. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of
Mr Dix : and Mr warden man a
booke intituled The historye of Henry
the IIIJth with his battaile of Shrewsburye
against Henry Hottspurre of the Northe
with the conceipted mirthe of Sir John
ffalstoff vjd./.
2 marcij
Paule Lynlay. Assigned ouer vnto hym from
Edward Blount, by the consent
of the Wardens, A booke in
Englishe called. Hero and
Leander vjd
4to die Marcij./.
John wolfe Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of
mr Hartwell and mr Man a booke
intituled A diett for the Christian
soule constantlye to be observed every daye
that yt maye alwayes reioyce in the Lorde . . . . vjd
.6. Marcij.
William Blackman Entred for his copie vnder the handes
of my lord. the Busshop of London
and mr Man., A booke Intituled
The Counsellour wherein the duty
of Magistrates, the happie life
of Subiectes and the felicitie of
Common Weales are Discoursed . . . . . vjd
7 marcij
Robert Dexter / Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of mr
Dix and mr Man diverse sermons and
tractes vppon seuerall textes wrytten
by mr Greeneham 1 of Anger 2 of fastinge
3 of woundinge the harte / 4 howe to profit
vnder the Crosse, 5 of Resurrection of
the Dead / 6 of the educacon of Children
7 of true blessednes, 8 of examinacon before
the Euchariste, 9 of perserverance 10, of the
meditacon of deathe / 11 of Justice and Just men
12 of the last Jugement. 13 of lyinge 14 of
foolishnes, 15 of humilatie and honour, 6 of kepinge
the harte 17 of murmurynge / 18 of zeale . . . 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), 3:105.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "1 Henry the Fourth," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "1059. 1 Henry IV," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 3, 1590-1597 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 360-8.
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