Main entry:

Blagden, Cyprian.

Title & Author:

The Stationers' Company; a history, 1403-1959.

Publication:

London, Allen & Unwin [©1960]

Description:

321 pages illustrations, maps 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-303).
Preface -- 1. The Charter: and before (The new hall and the Charter ; The stationers and their craft gilds [guilds] ; Printing in England ; Aliens and foreigners ; Government interference ; Copyright) -- 2. The early stationers and their governance (The pattern of membership ; Bylaws before 1557 ; Draft ordinances of 1559 ; Ordinances of 1562) -- 3. The Company in the reign of Elizabeth I (Twelve months in the life of the Company ; The Company's servants ; Routine ; A trade complaint ; Warden's accounts) -- 4. The Company and the monopolies (The monopolies in books ; Grievances ; Attempts at alleviation ; Government intervention: the Decrees of 1566 and 1586 ; The Company's involvement in monopolies ; The roots of the English stock) -- 5. The life of a stationer (The master ; John Harrison ; Apprenticeship rules ; Thomas Man: the young bookseller ; Promotion ; Fines for avoiding offices ; Man's later career ; The triumph of the booksellers) -- 6. The stocks (The English stock ; Capital and shareholding ; Management ; Competition from the universities ; The Latin stocks ; The Irish stock) -- 7. Growth, 1603 to 1641 (Normal gild [guild] activities ; The Star Chamber Decree of 1637 ; Rules for booksellers ; Rules for printers and letter-founders ; The career of a printer)
8. Civil war (The breakdown of Royal authority ; Michael Sparks and the first challenge to the Assistants ; Thomas Underhill and the second challenge to the Assistants ; Miles Fletcher and the monopolies ; The Bible, Scotch, grammar, law and Irish patents ; The Company's printing at Cambridge ; Control of Printing by ordinance and Act of parliament ; The 'Company' of printers: a challenge to the stationers) -- 9. The Company in the reign of the later Stuarts (The Printing Act of 1662 ; The new Ordinance of 1678 ; Supplementary Ordinances of 1681 and 1683 ; The new Charter of 1684 ; The protection of copyright ; The first Copyright Act, 1710) -- 10. Corporation and English stock finances (Minutes of Court meetings ; Warden's accounts ; English stock accounts ; Rival patents ; Seymour and the universities ; The new stock ; The treasurer of the English stock) -- 11. The property (The hall in St. Paul's churchyard ; The Dark House ; Newton Farm ; Wood Stret ; The hall at Abergavenny ; The Great Fire and the rebuilding ; The property since the Survey of 1773) -- 12. The Company in the eighteenth century (The challenge of the Livery ; Messrs. Osborne and Nutt ; The challenge of the Yeomanry ; Jacob Ilive ; The challenge to the almanack monopoly ; Thomas Carnan ; The English stock ; The trades of Liverymen ; Apprenticeship ; The status of the Company) -- 13. Signs of old age (Early nineteenth century prosperity ; The Stationers' Company school ; The Livery Companies' Commission ; Interest in the Company's history ; Breaks with the past ; The decline of the English stock ; Copyright) -- 14. The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers.
Appendix 1: Apprentices bound and turned over, Freemen presented, Livery-men called, and important events, 1557-1959 -- Appendix 2: The Milk Street myth -- Appendix 3: Membership of the Court of Assistants, 1558-76.

Subject:

Stationers' Company (London, England)
Stationers' Company London
Societas Bibliopolarum Londoniensium Frankfurt, Main
Book industries and trade Great Britain History.
London (England)
England London

Holdings:

Location: Library main 62782
Call No.: PO12051; ID:85-B8027
Status: Available