{"title":"Thomas Betterton's Book-Trade Apprenticeship and the Amazing Careers of His Two Masters, John Holden and John Rhodes, with Some Notes on the Actor's Library","authors":"C. Ferdinand","doi":"10.1093/library/fpac042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac042","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Thomas Betterton has been described as ‘the greatest English actor between Burbage and Garrick’ as well ‘the pre-eminent manager of his time’ (ODNB); yet he began his career in the book trade, with an informal apprenticeship split between entirely different masters. The first was the ambitious John Holden who might have succeeded Humphrey Moseley as the most important literary publisher of the day, had he not died young. His second master was John Rhodes, who took a more pragmatic view of bookselling. Rhodes’ heart was in the theatre—he briefly had his own company and purchased shares in a playhouse—but he understood that bookselling provided a more stable income. Rhodes would have kept the young Betterton busy in his bookshop, but he probably also gave Betterton his first stage experience. While Betterton went on to a brilliant acting and managing career, he continued his association with books, accumulating a large working library.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126456471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Biographical Notes on Richard Bradock (and Others)","authors":"Peter W. M. Blayney","doi":"10.1093/library/fpac041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac041","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Because the printer Richard Bradock began his apprenticeship during the five-year gap in the Stationers’ early records, his origins have remained unknown. Tracing the life and career of his second known master (Henry Middleton), and of Middleton’s own wider connections in the trade, has led to a record of a man who turns out to have been Bradock’s father. Moreover, in his Stationers’ Company Apprentices, 1605–1640 (1961), D. F. McKenzie wrongly supposed that some records of a Richard ‘Bradde’ (or ‘Bradd’, or ‘Brad’) were simply using an abbreviated form of ‘Bradock’. Consequently, half the apprentices credited to Bradock should be reassigned to the Stationer Richard ‘Brad’, the son of Stationer John ‘Bread’ or ‘Bred’.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124156522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Library and Commonplace Books of Mary Booth of Dunham Massey (1704–1772)","authors":"Edward Potten","doi":"10.1093/library/fpac040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac040","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper offers a detailed case study of Mary Booth as book owner and book user using two primary sources: her surviving library and her commonplace books. Booth’s fastidious approach to marking her books, coupled with the fortunate survival of the two houses where those books ultimately came to rest, allows for the reconstruction of her library almost in its entirety. Her commonplace books present an unusually rich record of her reading. Together, these sources offer a rare insight into the life, education, and book use of an early eighteenth-century gentlewoman, a rare comparator against which other women’s collections and habits of reading can be assessed.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"153 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114015572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1760–1794): New Copies and New Evidence regarding its History","authors":"Nicola Parsons, Amelia Dale","doi":"10.1093/library/fpac043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"9 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132242045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Fragments of Unrecorded Early English Printed Texts","authors":"A. Freeman, J. Freeman","doi":"10.1093/library/fpac036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128259995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lost, Burned and Recovered: Tracing the Provenance History of a Copy of Caxton’s Golden Legend in the John Rylands Library","authors":"Takako Kato","doi":"10.1093/library/fpac034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac034","url":null,"abstract":"extensive libraries prior to their sales.1 Among them was what was described as the Important and Valuable Library of the Late George Offor, Esq, including a copy of William Caxton’s Golden Legend (1483– 84).2 This study demonstrates that this copy, hitherto believed to be lost, managed to survive the fire and is Incunable Collection R4591 in the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester [hereafter M].3 M is in ‘pure’ first setting and now lacks ninety-three leaves and contains 356","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131998934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attributing Authorship to Bodleian MS Douce 171: A Seventeenth-Century Comedy by Arthur Wilson","authors":"Daniel Blank","doi":"10.1093/library/fpac035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac035","url":null,"abstract":"anonymous dramatic composition. It lacks a title, but based on the names of its two protagonists Martin Wiggins refers to the play as ‘Comedy of Stella and Alexis’ (hereafter ‘Stella and Alexis’).1 The text is fragmentary, ending abruptly after the first scene of the Third Act, and the surviving portion has undergone significant authorial revision.2 While ‘Stella and Alexis’ was acknowledged by twentieth-century bibliographers, none investigated its origins in any depth. E. K. Chambers includes the play in his list of ‘Anonymous Work’, where he declares only that there is no con nection with Philip Massinger’s Alexius, or the Chaste Lover, a lost play that was licensed in 1639.3 W. W. Greg does not discuss ‘Stella and Alexis’ at any length, but he likewise dismisses the possibility of a connection with Massinger’s work.4 G. E. Bentley provides a transcription of the Argument and Character List, but offers little by way of analysis: he comments briefly on the contents of the surrounding manuscript volume and the different hands contained therein.5 Wiggins’ catalogue entry is the most detailed treat ment of the manuscript to date, although he offers no serious guess about the play’s authorship. In this essay, I propose that ‘Stella and Alexis’ is far more significant than these scholars have realized. I argue that the","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116165642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photographs of Type Details Made by Emery Walker: Addenda to an Article of 1986","authors":"J. Mosley","doi":"10.1093/library/fpac021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115876753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Brown's Description of the Lake at Keswick: A Manuscript and A Few More Clues","authors":"Christopher Donaldson","doi":"10.1093/library/fpac019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116103737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"News: F. J. Norton's Manuscripts","authors":"James Freeman","doi":"10.1093/library/fpac030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132128810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}