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A TRANSCRIPT OF THE REGISTERS OF THE COMPANY OF STATIONERS OF LONDON; 1554-1640, A.D.
Arber, Edward (editor)
5 volumes bound in 3.
Reprint of the first edition published in Birmingham during the period 1875-1894. The Stationers' Company has in its possession copyright registers from 1554 to 1842. The entries up to 1640 have been published in A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660 ed. E Arber The Stationers' Company, which was founded in the fifteenth century to protect and regulate the London book trade, contains Court Book registers, records of the English Stock Company, and pension and apprentice register books, as well as "Entry Books of Copies." The Entry Books are of especial interest to scholars, since they record the names of authors and titles of books presented to the Company for printing.
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MATRIX 30
Trade edition. Matrix 30, which celebrates the fourth decade of the series. Its customary diverse range of topics includes Kenneth Tynan, the diaries of Tirzah Ravilious, letters from Edward Gordon Craig to his grandson, the Septentrio Press, wood type from the Hamilton Type Museum, printers obituaries, Brazilian favela printing, the Art and Technics series, Klingspor Typefoundry, engraving on the Mississippi, Rowley Atterbury and the Westerham Press, the wood-engravings of Geoffrey Miller, and much else besides, including a rich and varied mixture of broadsides, engravings and prints.
Matrix...a clear and spacious attic, whose dormer windows overlook fields and trees, and in which one comes across new or forgotten, sometimes exotic, treasures.
LINDSAY NEWMAN
...that annual miracle. THE BOOK COLLECTOR
Matrix describes doings by people with great skill. But the real, and enduring strength and greatness is there is not a whisper of greed or commercialism. WILLIAM MASLAND, ARIZONA
Hello again Rosalind, ... I woke up tonight and panicked...I thought Matrix 29 should have been out already and that I missed it!! What a nightmare ... Anyway, I look forward to it, now that I have calmed down...
ULF ENGLEHARDT, STOCKHOLM
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