Liber B, folio 310 recto
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber B
Date: 1576-1595
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber B, fol. 310r
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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 B
Date: 1576-1595
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber B, fol. 310r
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers' Register entry for the transfer of Venus and Adonis in 1594," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/395.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber B, folio 310 recto. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/395.
On June 25, 1594, the London printer and publisher Richard Field (entered as "ffeild") transferred his rights to print Shakespeare's poem Venus and Adonis over to his colleague, John Harrison the Elder. The poem was entered as "Venus and Adonis" in Stationers' Liber B. Field had originally registered the poem on April 18, 1593, after which he printed the first and second quarto editions. Only one fragmentary copy of the third quarto is known to surrvive, and it does not include a title page, although scholars conjecture it was printed by Harrison in 1595, who printed also printed the fourth edition in 1596. Seventeen quarto editions were printed in total before 1641, and the poem's publishing rights in the Stationers' Register were transferred to several different tradesmen over the course of those years.
Liber B 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]
Anno 1594 Regni Regine Eliz 36to 310
22do Die Junij
John Danter. Entred for his Copie vnder the hande
of Mr Warden Cawood. a Ballad
entytuled a most straunge and
miraculous wonder that happened
through lighteninge and thunder. which
happened in Divers places in England. . . . vjd
25 Junij
Mr Harrison Entred for his copie in Court
Sen. holden this day / a booke
entituled. Orchestra. or a poeme
of Daunsing . . . . . vjd
Mr Harrison Assigned ouer vnto him from
Sen. Richard ffeild in open Court
holden this Day a book called
Venus and Adonis . . . vjd
The which was before entred to Richard ffeild.
18. aprilis / 1593 /
25.
Edmond bolyfant Alowed vnto them to prynt to
and his partners the use of the Company, Dodoneus
herball in all volumes and with
pictures or without pictures
paying alwaies vppon euery Impression
vjd in the li to the use of the poore
accordinge to the ordonnance in yat behalf . . . vjd
26. Junij
John Wolf. Entred for his Copie vnder the hande
of Mr Warden Cawood, a booke
of Michaell de Renichon his aranment
and execucon &c . . . vjd
John danter Entred for his copie vnder the handes of Mr
Bynge, theis ballades
followinge viz
The newe married wyfes fayringe . . . vjd
The Cuntrymans welcomme to Barthme
fayre . . . vjd
a maydes lamentacon for lack of a
fayringe . . vjd
The wofull spectacle of the iust Judgment
of god shewed vppon a merchantes servant for
his cruelty toward his owne master beinge in poverty
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): 2:655.
The British Library, "2. William Shakespeare's poems and sonnets." Rev. 1.0.1. Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto. Last modified December 2, 2004. <bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/poems.html>.
Last updated February 8, 2020
