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

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

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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
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
eBook ISBN
9781107496781
Subtopic
Publishing
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Permissions
  11. Conventions
  12. Abbreviations
  13. Chapter One 1357-1500
  14. Chapter Two 1501-1509
  15. Chapter Three 1510-1520
  16. Chapter Four 1521-1528
  17. Chapter Five 1529-1534
  18. Chapter Six 1535-1541
  19. Chapter Seven 1535-1541
  20. Chapter Eight 1542-1546
  21. Endnotes to Volume 1
  22. Chapter Nine 1547-1553
  23. Chapter Ten 1553-1557
  24. Chapter Eleven 1554-1557
  25. Chapter Twelve 1501-1557
  26. Appendix A The founding of the Company, 12 July 1403
  27. Appendix B Edition-sheets versus ‘masterformes’
  28. Appendix C Importation statistics
  29. Appendix D Privileges, patents, and placards
  30. Appendix E A surfeit of Bourmans
  31. Appendix F John Day of Barholm
  32. Appendix G The sites of six printing houses
  33. Appendix H Maps: Fleet Street, St Paul’s Churchyard, and Paternoster Row
  34. Appendix I Stationers’ Hall and its neighbours
  35. Appendix J The charter of 1557
  36. Appendix K Books represented in Graphs 2-3
  37. Endnotes to Volume 2
  38. Manuscripts cited
  39. Bibliography
  40. Index of STC numbers
  41. General index

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