Liber C, folio 288 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. 288a
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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. 288a
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers' Register entry for the transfer of Edward III in 1618," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/432.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 288 recto. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/432.
Edward III was originally entered in the Stationers' Register on December 1, 1595, by publisher Cuthbert Burby. Burby died in 1607, and in 1609 his widow Elizabeth transferred the rights to the play (along with 37 other titles, including the second part to Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe) to the publisher William Welby. Burby had produced two quarto editions (1596, 1599), but Welby failed to produce any. On March 2, 1618, Welby transferred his rights to publish the play to Thomas Snodham, but the play would never be published in quarto again. Although evidence does not support early hypotheses that Shakespeare was the sole author of the play, scholars now believe that he contributed several scenes.
Liber C and the other registers with Shakespeare’s works are still kept by the Stationers’ Company in their archives.
[Current transcription based on Arber; check back soon for a transcription that conforms to Shakespeare Documented conventions]
2o Martij 1617 Regni Regis 15o / 288
Mr Snodham Assigned ouer vnto him by Mr Welbey
with Consente of the Mr and wardens
all his Right in theis Copies followinge . . . xxjd
vizt Laurentius of the eyesight
Phillips his sermons.
Downham on the 15th psalme
Idem on Antechrist
Wittes common wealth 2 partes
Grandoes meditacons
Idem. Exercises
Stronge helper
Knighthood 6. 7. 8. 9 partes
Primaleon of Greece j and 2. parte
Christian warefare j and 2 parte
Greenehams workes. his parte
Perkins on the revelacon
Idem Graine of musterd seede
History of the bible vpon each Impression 75 bookes
Henry the 4th by Doctor Haywarde
English secretary
Englandes parnassus
Cuffes booke of the age of man
Amadis de Gaule 2 partes
Pinder of Wakefield a play
Orlando. the play
Edward the 3d the play.
Conny catchine 2 partes
Doctor. Faustus 2 partes
Vnfortunate traueller
Bucanus in English. his parte.
Sommers last will and testamente his parte
Theorique of Phisick and surgery
Every man in his humor. his parte
Perkins on Christs sermon on the mounte
Tallent on Devocon
Two sermons of master Dode and Master Cleaver
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), 3:621.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "The Reign of King Edward the Third," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "952. The Reign of King Edward III," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 3, 1590-1597 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 227-32.
Last updated February 8, 2020
