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dc.contributor.advisorPettegree, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorHill, Alexandra
dc.coverage.spatialvi, 230, 271 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-23T14:42:13Z
dc.date.available2017-05-23T14:42:13Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-22
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/10811
dc.description.abstractMy thesis is the first attempt to analyse systematically the entries relating to lost books in the Stationers’ Company Register. The monopoly of the Stationers’ Company centralised book production in England to the limited number of presses its members operated, all of which were in London. As a result, the Stationers’ Company Register contains almost all the books authorised to be printed during the Elizabethan, Jacobean and early Caroline periods. Analysis of surviving books has understandably dominated work on early modern print. However, by correlating entries in the Stationers’ Company Register with data on extant copies in the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a list can be created of books printed but no longer traceable to an existing copy. Such a list provides new data on the titles available, showing the works on which printers were willing to risk time, capital and resources, even if they are no longer extant. It also reveals the sheer variety of books being printed, particularly in the case of more ephemeral works, where the Register is often the only indication that they were printed at all. The Stationers’ Register is a remarkable, underused resource that can reveal much about book production and the book trade, including critical issues of survival and loss.
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subject.lccZ1024.H56
dc.titleAn analysis of the Stationers’ Company Register, lost books and printing in London, 1557-1640en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17630/10023-10811


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