Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Calendar of Patent Rolls, 40 Elizabeth I (1597-1598)
Author: Calendar of Patent Rolls, 40 Elizabeth I (1597-1598)
Author: Carrie L. SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9781906875152
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Calender of Patent Rolls 41 Elizabeth I (1598-1599)
Author: Simon R. NealPublisher: List and Index Society
ISBN: 9781906875169
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland: Elizabeth, 19th year to end of reign
Author: Ireland. High Court of ChanceryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland, of the Reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth ...: 1576-1602
Author: Ireland. ChanceryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Calendar of patent rolls
Author: Christine LeightonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781906875169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
List and Index Society
Author: Simon R. NealPublisher:
ISBN: 9781906875169
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Calendar of Patent Rolls, 42 Elizabeth I (1599-1600)
Author: Carrie L. SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9781906875190
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Shakespeare's First Reader
Author: Jason Scott-WarrenPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812296346
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of the Exchequer for more than four decades under Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, he rose from obscure origins to a life of opulence; his job, a secure bureaucratic post with a guaranteed income, was the kind of which many men dreamed. Vast sums of money passed through his hands, some of which he used to engage in moneylending and land speculation. He also bought books, lots of them, amassing one of the largest libraries in early modern London. In 1597, all of this was brought to a halt when Stonley, aged around seventy-seven, was incarcerated in the Fleet Prison, convicted of embezzling the spectacular sum of £13,000 from the Exchequer. His property was sold off, and an inventory was made of his house on Aldersgate Street. This provides our most detailed guide to his lost library. By chance, we also have three handwritten volumes of accounts, in which he earlier itemized his spending on food, clothing, travel, and books. It is here that we learn that on June 12, 1593, he bought "the Venus & Adhonay per Shakspere"—the earliest known record of a purchase of Shakespeare's first publication. In Shakespeare's First Reader, Jason Scott-Warren sets Stonley's journals and inventories of goods alongside a wealth of archival evidence to put his life and library back together again. He shows how Stonley's books were integral to the material worlds he inhabited and the social networks he formed with communities of merchants, printers, recusants, and spies. Through a combination of book history and biography, Shakespeare's First Reader provides a compelling "bio-bibliography"—the story of how one early modern gentleman lived in and through his library.
Calendar of Patent Rolls
Author: Simon R. NealPublisher:
ISBN: 9781906875015
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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