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unusual facts about Stationers' Register


The Parliament of Bees

The poem was entered into the Stationers' Register on 23 March 1641 and printed later in the year by the bookseller William Lee.


Andrew Wise

As was typical of publishers of his era, he published religious and homiletic works, like The Pathway to Perfection and The Mean of Mourning (both 1596) by Thomas Playfair — though he appears to have operated a rather small-scale business, in comparison with other stationers of his generation.

Eastward Hoe

Eastward Ho was entered into the Stationers' Register on 4 September 1605 and printed later that year in a quarto issued by the bookseller William Aspley, printed by George Eld.

Edward Blount

In 1601 he published Robert Chester's Love's Martyr, the volume that contained The Phoenix and the Turtle; he entered both Antony and Cleopatra and Pericles, Prince of Tyre in the Stationers' Register in 1608, though he published neither.

Edward Stanford

Born in 1827, and educated at the City of London School, Edward Stanford got into maps after being employed by Mr Trelawney Saunders at his map and stationers.

Ernest Symons

He was educated at the Stationers' Company School and University College London (UCL), serving on the UCL Council in 1975 and becoming a fellow of UCL in 1979.

Henry Bynneman

Though he is known for printing Holinshed's Chronicles for a group of wealthy stationers in 1577, he did not so under his royal patent, which he did not yet have.

Marianne and Mark

Most of the settings in the novel are real places in Brighton and Eastbourne including: the West Pier and the Palace Pier, West Street, North Street and East Street (the stationers Marianne visits on East Street is most likely based on a shop called Beals which was later converted into a clothes shop), Brighton Station, Beachy Head and Belle Tout lighthouse.

Robert Allot

An entry in the Stationers' Register dated 16 November 1630 transferred the rights to sixteen Shakespearean plays from Edward Blount, one of the publishers of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, to Robert Allot; these were sixteen of the eighteen plays in the First Folio that had not been previously published in quarto editions.

The True Tragedy of Richard III

The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 19 June 1594; it appeared in print later that year, in a quarto printed and published by Thomas Creede and sold by the stationer William Barley, "at his shop in Newgate Market, near Christ Church door."

United States cyber-diplomacy

The Games were developed by MetroStar Systems along with Neal Hallford, J.R. Register, and Ghafur Remtulla and funded by the U.S. Department of State.

Warren De la Rue

He was born in Guernsey, the son of the founder of the large firm of stationers of that name in London, Thomas de la Rue and Jane (née Warren).

Wilfrid Vernon

Educated in the Stationers' Company School and the City and Guilds Technical College in London, Vernon served in the RNVR during the First World War, before becoming a squadron major in the RNAS and was a major in the RAF in its early days.

William Seres

In his old age he assigned his business for a yearly rental to Henry Denham who became a member of the Stationers' Company in 1560.


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