Liber C, folio 279 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. 279r
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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. 279r
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers' Register entry for the transfer of Venus and Adonis and 29 other books in 1617," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/431.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 279 recto. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/431.
Venus and Adonis was the first of Shakespeare's works to be entered into the Stationers' Register and to be printed. It was originally entered into Liber B on April 18, 1593, by Richard Field. By 1617, the rights to publish had been transferred to two other publishers (John Harrison the Elder in 1594 and William Leake in 1596), and the poem printed ten times. On February 16, 1617, Leake transferred his rights to William Barrett (along with the rights to 29 other titles), who continued to print new editions, beginning with the eleven in 1617. The poem was extremely popular, appearing in 17 total editions before 1641.
Liber C and the other registers with Shakespeare’s works are still kept by the Stationers’ Company in their archives.
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16o ffebruarij 1616 Regni Regis 14o 279
Mr Barrett Assigned ouer vnto him by Mr Leake
and by order of a full Courte all
theis Copies followinge vizt. . . . . xiiijd ./
Palermin of England, 3 parte
Venus and Adonis
Linackers Consolacon and Catachisme
Hecatonfila or the arte of Loue
Mr Smithes 6 semons vizt
sinners converusion
sinners confession
songe of Symeon. 2
callinge of Jonah
Rebellion of Jonah
Death and Downefall of Robin Hoode
Dyet for a Christian soule
Pilgramage to paradise
Knowledge of a mans self by Plessis
Saint Peters complaint.
Mary Magdalens funerall teares
Ephewes his England, and Anatomy of Witt
Order for Orphans
Decree for Tythes
Mr Web his spirtual poesie
Gods Controuersie
Mr Lake on the Comandments = the first parte
Bp Jewells sermons and sacramentes,
The pretious pearle
Idem Allowed vnot him also by the same Court
all the Copies that belonged to Master Cotton vizt
The practise of faith
Flowers of Granadoe
Pathway to prayer by Dor Hill
Heliodorus Ethiopan History
The Fawne
Searles Ephemerides halfe.
Christian aeconomye. halfe.
Mistery of redemption
Cookes epigrames
Life and death of lord Cromwell
Idem Assigned vnto him by Thomas Bushell
a booke called the Resloued Christian
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): 3:603.
The British Library. "2. William Shakespeare's poems and sonnets," Rev. 1.0.1. in Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto. Last modified December 2, 2004. http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/poems.html."
Last updated February 8, 2020
