Unpaid Debts to London Booksellers: John Harrison the Elder’s Lawsuit against Two Chapmen in 1585

IF 0.6 4区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

LIBRARY Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1093/library/fpad024

Jonathan McGovern

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Abstract

Abstract This article presents a transcript of a recently discovered booklist from a 1585 lawsuit at the Court of Common Pleas. This list describes a large book sale made on 3 May 1584 to two chapmen named John Herne and Thomas Jackson. It throws light on the Elizabethan book trade and the litigation practices of London booksellers, and it contains rare evidence on the trade prices of early modern books. It also records the earliest known purchase of Edmund Spenser’s celebrated Shepheardes calender (first published in 1579).

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伦敦书商的未偿债务:1585年老约翰·哈里森对两个查普曼的诉讼

本文介绍了最近发现的1585年普通上诉法院诉讼书单的文字记录。这份清单描述了1584年5月3日的一次大型图书销售，买家是两个名叫约翰·赫恩和托马斯·杰克逊的牧师。它揭示了伊丽莎白时代的图书贸易和伦敦书商的诉讼实践，并包含了关于早期现代书籍交易价格的罕见证据。它还记录了已知最早购买埃德蒙·斯宾塞著名的谢泼德日历(1579年首次出版)。

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期刊介绍： The Library is the journal of the Bibliographical Society. For more than a hundred years it has been the pre-eminent UK scholarly journal for the study of bibliography and of the role of the book in history. All aspects of descriptive, analytical, textual and historical bibliography come within its scope, including the history of the production, distribution and reception of books, both manuscript and printed; the history of collecting and of libraries; paper, printing types, book illustration, and binding; and the transmission of texts and their authenticity.