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An analysis of the Stationers’ Company Register, lost books and printing in London, 1557-1640
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dc.contributor.advisor | Pettegree, Andrew | |
dc.contributor.author | Hill, Alexandra | |
dc.coverage.spatial | vi, 230, 271 p. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-23T14:42:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-23T14:42:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06-22 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/10811 | |
dc.description.abstract | My 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.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of St Andrews | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject.lcc | Z1024.H56 | |
dc.title | An analysis of the Stationers’ Company Register, lost books and printing in London, 1557-1640 | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en_US |
dc.type.qualificationname | PhD Doctor of Philosophy | en_US |
dc.publisher.institution | The University of St Andrews | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.17630/10023-10811 |
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