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Stationers' Company

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Stationers' Company
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(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a guild, established by Royal Charter from Queen Mary in 1557, composed of booksellers, printers, etc.
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Jackson, Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company (London: Bibliographic Society, 1957), 110.
"To think these trifles some-thing": Shakespearean playbooks and the ... by Kastan, David Scott / Shakespeare Studies
Loewenstein begins his study by noting that there were three important institutions for regulating the Elizabethan press: the royal licensing that served to keep ideologically unacceptable books out of print; entry into the register of the Stationers' Company, a guild privilege by which an individual member obtained the exclusive right to market a text; and the granting of patents, by which certain stationers were given control over entire classes of publication.
The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright by Kallendorf, Craig / Renaissance Quarterly
Instead of invoking the author as a source of meaning, Lesser turns to those booksellers and Stationers' Company members who published books, arguing that they are readers with an astute understanding of how printed playbooks fit into particular literary and political contexts.
Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the ... by North, Marcy L. / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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