Liber C, folio 6 recto
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber C
Date: 1595-1620
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber C, fol. 6r
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The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers has graciously contributed the above image from their collections to Shakespeare Documented under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. For any further use, visitors should contact the Clerk of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers at clerk@stationers.org.
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber C
Date: 1595-1620
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber C, fol. 6r
Folger Shakespeare Library staff, "Stationers’ Register entry for Edward III," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/396.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 6 recto. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/396.
Edward III was entered in Liber C of the Stationers' Company on December 1, 1595 as "Edward the Third and the Blacke Prince their warres with kinge John of Fraunce." The play was entered by London publisher Cuthbert Burby, who ordered the first quarto edition printed in 1596. A second quarto edition was printed in 1599. Although evidence does not support early hypotheses that Shakespeare was the sole author of the play, scholars now believe that he contributed several scenes.
Liber C and the other registers with Shakespeare’s works are still kept by the Stationers’ Company in their archives.
[This transcription is pending final vetting]
[Current transcription based on Arber; check back soon for a transcription that conforms to Shakespeare Documented conventions]
1595 Anno 38 Elizabethae 6
j die Decembris
Edward Aggas / Entred for his copie vnder the
wardens handes / a booke intituled
Harangues Militaires / et
Concions De Princes
Capitaines &c to be printed
in Englishe . . . . .vjd
primo die decembris
Cutbert Entred for his copie vnder the handes
Burby of the wardens A book Intitled
Edward the third and the Blacke
Prince their warres with kinge John
of Fraunce . . . . . . vjd
Cutbert Entred for his copie vnder the Wardens
Burby handes a book Intituled. Cornelius
Shylander his. Chirurgery . . . . vjd
vijo die Decembris./.
Rich: Jones./. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of bothe the
wardens a booke intituled Lamentable
newes from Newgate / Barnet / and Braynford
beinge the indictement / arraingment /
Judgement and execucon of Three
wicked witches . . . . . vjd
ixo die Decembris./.
Tho. Creede./. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of bothe
the wardens a booke intituled the Second
parte of the moste delectable and plesant
historye of Prynce Edward knight of
the holye Crosse of Jerusalem . . . vjd./.
17 Decembris
Cutbert Burby Entred for his coppy vnder the handes of
the Wardens, Maroccus
extaticus, or Bankes bayhorse
in A traunce . . . vjd R.
Tho. Millington Entred for his Copie vnder the wardens a
Ballade Intituled A pynne for the Spanyardes . . . vjd
Sources
Edward Arber, ed., A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London: 1554–1640 A.D. 5 vols. (London: privately printed, 1875–94), 3:55.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "The Reign of King Edward the Third," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "952. The Reign of King Edward III," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 3, 1590-1597 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 227-232.
Last updated February 8, 2020
