Liber C, folio 80 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. 80v
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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. 80v
Folger Shakespeare Library staff, "Stationers' Register entry for the transfer of Henry VI Parts 1 and 2, and Titus Andronicus," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/409.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 80 verso. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/409.
Henry VI Part 1 and Part 2 and Titus Andronicus were entered into Liber C of the Stationers' Company on April 19, 1602. Thomas Millington had previously entered Henry VI Part 2 into Liber B on March 12, 1594. Titus Andronicus was first entered into the Stationers' Register as the property of John Danter on February 6, 1594, who then printed the first quarto edition for Millington and Edward White. There is no record of Danter's transfer of his rights to Millington. In this entry, Thomas Millington transferred the publishing rights of all three plays to Thomas Pavier. Henry VI Part 1 had not yet appeared in the Stationers' Register or in print.
Titus Andronicus is entered here as "Titus and Andronicus." Despite Pavier's publishing rights, the next printed edition of Titus Andronicus was completed by Edward Allde for Edward White in 1611. Three quarto editions appeared in total, and the play was also included in the First and Second Folios.
Henry VI Part 1 and Henry VI Part 2 are entered here as "The first and Second parte of Henry the vjth]". Henry VI Part 2 was published first in 1594, and again in 1600, both by Thomas Millington. Following this transfer, the play was next printed in 1619 as a part of The Whole Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, which was printed by William Jaggard for Thomas Pavier. Following this, it was next published in the First Folio, along with Henry VI Part 1, which appeared then in print for the first time. Both plays also appeared in the Second Folio.
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]
1602 44 Regine
19 aprilis
humfrey Entred for his copie vnder the handes of mr
Lownes Downam and the wardens. A
booke called sermon preached at the
Spittell in Easter weeke Anno 1562
per mr Downam./ / / . . . . vjd
Clemt Knight Entred for his copie, a booke called
A defence of Tabaccho and the true
vse thereof . . . . . vjd
Clemt Knight Item the spellinge A. B. C' salvo
Jure cuiuscunque . . vjd
Cuthbert Burbie Entred for his copie vnder the handes of
mr Hartwell and the wardens A
booke called the art of Stenographie . . vjd
Jo. Jagger. Entred for his copie vnder the handes of
mr Pasfeild and the wardens a
booke called observations vpon the
Lyves. of Alexander Cesar
and SCIPIO . . . . . vjd
mr leake Entred for his copie by assignement
from master Bradock a booke called
the pretious perle . . . . . . vjd
Tho. pavier Entred for his copies by assignement
from Thomas millington these
bookes folowinge, Saluo Jure cuiuscunque
viz
A booke called Thomas of Reading . . . vjd
The first and Second parte of Henry the VJt
ij bookes . . . . . . . . xijd
A booke called Titus and Andronicus . . vjd
Entred by warrant vnder mr
Setons hand
27 Aprilis
Symon Stafford Entred for his copye vnder the handes of
mr Pasfeild and mr Seton warden A
Sermon called Gods newe
yeres gift sent vnto England &c . . . . . 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), 3:204.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "1 Henry the Sixth," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "2 Henry the Sixth," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "888. The First Part of the Contention betwixt the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 3, 1590-1597 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 92-103.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "919. Harry VI," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 3, 1590-1597 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 161-7.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "928. Titus Andronicus," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 3, 1590-1597 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 179-85.
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