Liber C, folio 167 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. 167v
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 C
Date: 1595-1620
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber C, fol. 167v
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff," Stationers' Register entry for Pericles and Antony and Cleopatra," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/418.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 167 verso. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/418.
Pericles was entered into Liber C of the Stationers' Company on May 20, 1608 as "The booke of Pericles prynce of Tyre." On the same date, Antony and Cleopatra was also entered into the Register, as "Anthony. and Cleopatra." Both titles were entered by London publisher Edward Blount, who never produced quarto editions of either play. Pericles appears in five quarto editions produced by a variety of publishers (two in 1609, 1611, 1630, 1635), in addition to appearing in a quarto collection with Henry VI Part 2 and Henry VI Part 3 (1619). Antony and Cleopatra, which was never published in quarto by anyone, does appear in the First and Second Folios published by Blount and his partner William Jaggard.
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]
1608 .6 Regis
.11. Maij
Jo. Wright. Entred for his copie vnder the handes
of the wardens : and with
Consent of Henry Gosson whose
copye yt was. A book called
A Plateforme made for the proof
of gods providences by Ar Dent . . . vjd
.13. Maij
Sa. Macham Entred for his copie vnder the
handes of my Lo. Bysshop
of London & The wardens
A booke called. Pharisaisme
and Christianitie./ By Joseph
Hall . . . . . . . vjd
19 maij
Nath. Buter Entred for his copie vnder handes of
Mr Gab. Powell & The wardens
A booke called. Newes from
Lough ffoyle in Ireland of the
Late trecherous atempt of that rebell
Sir Carey A Dougherty &c . . . . . . . vjd
20 maij
Edw Blount. Entred for his copie vnder
the handes of Sir Geo. Buck
knight & Mr Warden Seton a
booke called. The booke of
Pericles prynce of Tyre. . . . . . . vjd
Edw. Blount. Entred also for his copie by
the lyke Aucthoritie. A booke
Called. Anthony. & Cleopatra. . . . . 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), 3:378.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks. "Antony and Cleopatra," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks. "Pericles, Prince of Tyre." Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "1517. Antony and Cleopatra," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 5, 1603-1608 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 325-32.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "1555. Pericles, Prince of Tyre," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 5, 1603-1608 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 412-17.
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