Index: Preface. Introduction. The records of the Worshipful company of stationers. By Charles Robert Rivington. 2d ed. Edinburgh, Printed by Turnbull & Spears, 1893. [Paper pub. separately 1883; now rev. to July 1893] A list, based on the registers of the Stationers company, of 847 London publishers (who were by trade, printers, engravers, booksellers, bookbinders, &c., &c.) between 1553 and 1640, A. D.; being a master key to English bibliography during a period in which almost all authorised books were printed in the metropolis; excepting principally a number which, from 1584-85 onwards, came from the university presses of Cambridge and Oxford. By Edward Arber. [An advance ed. of the list was pub. separately 1 May 1890; present ed., rev. and cor.] A bibliographical summary of English literature. 1553-1603. Index I: An index of the mechanical producers of English books, and of persons and places connected with them and with the Company of stationers of London. [It was not possible to print Index II: An index of the intellectual producers of English books] 1894
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