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The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557 2 Volume Hardback Set

The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557 2 Volume Hardback Set

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Peter W. M. Blayney
Cambridge University Press, 11/21/2013
EAN 9781107035010, ISBN10: 1107035015

Hardcover, 1300 pages, 23.5 x 16.2 x 6.7 cm
Language: English

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.

Volume 1
1. 1357–1500
historical and lexical introduction
2. 1501–9
in the beginning …
3. 1510–20
royal privilege and clerical scrutiny
4. 1521–8
the Church clamps down
5. 1529–34
the old order changeth
6. 1535–41
a septennium of bibles
7. 1535–41
the Company grows
8. 1542–6
the end of Henry's reign. Volume 2
9. 1547–53
the reign of Edward VI
10. 1553–7
from catastrophe to charter
11. 1554–7
the road to incorporation
12. 1501–57
conclusion
Appendices
A. The founding of the Company, 12 July 1403
B. Edition-sheets versus 'masterformes'
C. Importation statistics
D. Privileges, patents, and placards
E. A surfeit of Bourmans
F. John Day of Barholm
G. The sites of six printing houses
H. Maps
Fleet Street, St Paul's Churchyard, Paternoster Row
I. Stationers' Hall and its neighbours
J. The charter of 1557
K. STC books (and others) included in the graphs
Manuscripts cited
Bibliography
Index of STC numbers
General index.

Advance praise: 'Blayney's book is quite an extraordinary feat of scholarship. Any future writing about this period by book historians, bibliographers, students of censorship and of press control, and literary or textual scholars will have to use his book as a starting point.' John Barnard, University of Leeds

Advance praise: 'Written by an author who over the course of a lifetime has become the world's leading authority on printing and the book trade in early-modern (and especially early-Tudor) England, this book represents a triumph and the gold standard. No one can match Peter Blayney's expertise. His book is a monumental work in every sense.' John Guy, University of Cambridge