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The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557

Name: The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557
Author: Peter W. M. Blayney

Peter W. M. Blayney,

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The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557

Peter W. M. Blayney,

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This major, revisionist reference work explains for the first time how the Stationers' Company acquired both a charter and a nationwide monopoly of printing. In the most detailed and comprehensive investigation of the London book trade in any period, Peter Blayney systematically documents the story from 1501, when printing first established permanent roots inside the City boundaries, until the Stationers' Company was incorporated by royal charter in 1557. Having exhaustively re-examined original sources and scoured numerous archives unexplored by others in the field, Blayney radically revises accepted beliefs about such matters as the scale of native production versus importation, privileges and patents, and the regulation of printing by the Church, Crown and City. His persistent focus on individuals - most notably the families, rivals and successors of Richard Pynson, John Rastell and Robert Redman - keeps this study firmly grounded in the vivid lives and careers of early Tudor Londoners.

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Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2013

ISBN

9781107496781

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Publishing

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Languages & Linguistics

Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Permissions
Conventions
Abbreviations
Chapter One 1357-1500
Chapter Two 1501-1509
Chapter Three 1510-1520
Chapter Four 1521-1528
Chapter Five 1529-1534
Chapter Six 1535-1541
Chapter Seven 1535-1541
Chapter Eight 1542-1546
Endnotes to Volume 1
Chapter Nine 1547-1553
Chapter Ten 1553-1557
Chapter Eleven 1554-1557
Chapter Twelve 1501-1557
Appendix A The founding of the Company, 12 July 1403
Appendix B Edition-sheets versus ‘masterformes’
Appendix C Importation statistics
Appendix D Privileges, patents, and placards
Appendix E A surfeit of Bourmans
Appendix F John Day of Barholm
Appendix G The sites of six printing houses
Appendix H Maps: Fleet Street, St Paul’s Churchyard, and Paternoster Row
Appendix I Stationers’ Hall and its neighbours
Appendix J The charter of 1557
Appendix K Books represented in Graphs 2-3
Endnotes to Volume 2
Manuscripts cited
Bibliography
Index of STC numbers
General index