Liber C, folio 25 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. 25r
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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. 25r
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers' Register entry for Richard III," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/399.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 25 recto. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/399.
Richard III was entered into Liber C of the Stationers' Company on October 20, 1597. The title was entered as "The tragedie of kinge Richard the Third with the death of the Duke of Clarence." Andrew Wise, the London publisher who entered the title into the Register, began selling a quarto edition, printed by Valentine Simmes and Peter Short, later that same year. The second quarto edition was printed and sold in 1598. Overall, eight quarto editions were printed before 1642, and the play was also included 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.
[Current transcription based on Arber; check back soon for a transcription that conforms to Shakespeare Documented conventions]
25
xiiijto die Octobris 39
Nicholas Lynge Entred for his Copie, A booke
intituled, wittes Common wealthe
by direction from mr
Warden man . . . . . vjd
15. octobris
William Jones Entred for his Copie vnder the hand of
mr Man warden. A booke
Called Sainct Peters Ten teares supposedly
wrytten vppon his weepinge sorrowes
for Denyinge his mr Christie. This
entrance is condycionall that no other
man haue Right to the seid booke . . vjd
19o Octobris
Raphe Blore./. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of mr
Dix and mr Man a booke called the
gentle crafte intreatinge of Shoomakers . . vjd
20 Octobris
Andrewe wise / Entred for his copie vnder the handes of
mr Barlowe, and mr warden
man./ The tragedie of kinge
Richard the Third with the
death of the Duke of Clarence . . vjd
22o Octobris./.
mr Est./. Entred for his Copie vnder
the handes of mr Morley and
bothe the wardens a booke called /
Songes of sundrye natures,
whereof somme are Divine / some are
madrigalles, and the rest spalmes
and hymnes in Latin composed
for 5 and 6 voyces and One for 8
voyces / by Nathanaell Patrick
sometyme mr of the Children of the
Cathedrall Churche of Worcester and
Organist of the same 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), 3:93.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "Richard 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, "950. King Richard III," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 3, 1590-1597 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 219-226.
Last updated February 8, 2020
