Liber D, page 290
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber D
Date: 1620-1645
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber D, p. 290
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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 D
Date: 1620-1645
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber D, p. 290
Folger Shakespeare Library staff, "Stationers' Register entry for The Two Noble Kinsmen," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/436.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber D, page 290. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/436.
The Two Noble Kinsmen was entered into Liber D of the Stationer’s Company on April 8, 1634. John Waterson, the publisher who entered the title, entered it as "the two noble kinsmen by John ffletcher and William Shakespeare." Waterson issued the first and only quarto edition later that same year. The play does not appear in either the First or Second Folio.
Liber D 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]
290 5o Aprilis 1634
Mr Robert Young Assigned ouer vnto him (with a Provisoe
vndernamed) by order of a full Court
& with the Consent of Edward Brnister
and Roberte Bird all the estate right
& interest, which they the said Edward
& Roberte have in the Copy called the
Doctrine of the Bible provided that
the said Robert yong shall not imprint
or cause to be imprinted or lay any
clayme right or interest to any other
volumes of the said booke then onely such
volumes as may be ioyned with Bibles
And that all impressions which the said
Robert yong shall so imprint to be
ioyned with Bibles, the said Edward
Bruister & Roberte Bird shall have the
one halfe of euery such impression paying
to the said Roberte young for the Paper
& printing theoreof onely, And that the
said Robert young shall not assigne or sell
the said Copy without Consent of the said
Edward & Robert And that all other
volumes that may be printed (not to be
ioyned with Bibles) shall be to the onely
vse & behoofe of them the said Edward
Bruester & Robert Bird . . . .vjd
6o Aprilis 1634.
Master Bourne Entred for his Copy vnder the hands of Mr
Buckner & Mr Weaver warden (dated the
3d of August 1633) a booke called An Apology
for Dan: ffeatly Doctor of Dyvinity against
the Calumnies of one S: E: in respect of
his Conference had with Doctor Smith since
entitled by the Pope Bishop of Calcedon
concerning the reall presence by Myrth
Waferer Mr of Arts of Albane hall in
Oxford ^with a Letter from Doctor ffeatly to the Bishop of Calcedon . . . .vjd
8o Aprilis
Mr Jo: Waterson Entred for his Copy vnder the hands of Sir
Hen: Herbert and Mr Aspley warden a
TragiComedy called the two noble
kinsmen by Jo: ffletcher & Wm Shakespeare . . . .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), 4:316.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "The Two Noble Kinsmen," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Last updated February 23, 2021
