Hyder Edward Rollins (1889–1958)
Auteur van The Renaissance in England; non-dramatic prose and verse of the sixteenth century
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Werken van Hyder Edward Rollins
The Renaissance in England; non-dramatic prose and verse of the sixteenth century (1954) 106 exemplaren
A Pepysian Garland: Broadside Ballads of the Years 1595-1639, Chiefly from the Collection of Samuel Pepys (1922) — Redacteur — 17 exemplaren
The pack of Autolycus : or, Strange and terrible news of ghosts, apparitions, monstrous births, showers of wheat,… (1969) 9 exemplaren
Cavalier and Puritan Ballads and Broadsides Illustrating the Period of the Great Rebellion 1640-1660 (1923) 3 exemplaren
An analytical index to the ballad-entries (1557-1709) in the registers of the Company of Stationers of London (1924) 3 exemplaren
The Pepys Ballads, Volumes I-III 2 exemplaren
Gerelateerde werken
Tottel's Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others (Penguin Classics) (1897) — Redacteur, sommige edities — 64 exemplaren
The Letters of John Keats, 1814-1821: Vols. 1 and 2 (1958) — Redacteur, sommige edities — 21 exemplaren
Studies in Bibliography (Vol. 9) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
Tottel's Miscellany (1557-1587) Volume 1 (I) Only (1928) — Redacteur, sommige edities — 2 exemplaren
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1889-11-08
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1958-07-25
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Abilene, Texas, USA
- Opleiding
- Southwestern University
University of Texas
Johns Hopkins University
Harvard University
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- 177
- Populariteit
- #121,427
- Waardering
- 4.3
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 20
The Stationer's Register was, in effect, the record of copyrights in England from the time the Stationer's Guild founded it until newer methods could be found. When a publication (book, pamphlet, broadsheet) was printed, it was required that it be registered and a fee paid. This was partly to keep unacceptable things from being printed but mostly to allow one printer to have (temporary) exclusive rights to a piece -- the equivalent of copyright. Printers could be fined either for not registering a piece or for violating another printer's registration.
The Register is, naturally, chronological; as printers registered things, they went into the book. So if you need to find if something was registered in the past, you have to check the whole book, with all the different handwritings and notations used.
This book solves that problem. Instead of listing the pieces chronologically, it lists them by title, along with the date and the printer who registered them and occasionally other odds and ends of information. There are also secondary indices to help you find items if you can't guess the title. The book is specific to ballads and short pieces, but on the whole, that makes it simpler to use.
As far as that goes, the book does its job well. The only thing that bothers me -- the only reason I don't give it five stars -- is that author Rollins sometimes tried to identify the title with a known broadside or song, and there are instances where I really don't think he got this right. But if you accept that caveat, it's an excellent work. Very specialized, of course -- if you don't care about some old poem that somebody wrote and tried to sell in the seventeenth century, this isn't for you. But you had probably figured that out even before you read this review.
[CORRECTION 11/17/2020: changed the second sentence of the last paragraph to read "the only reason I didn't give it FIVE stars"]… (meer)