Abstracts From The Wills Of English Printers And Stationers From 1492 To 1630

Author : Henry R. Plomer
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ISBN 13 : 9781331883296
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Abstracts From the Wills of English Printers and Stationers written by Henry R. Plomer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Abstracts From the Wills of English Printers and Stationers: From 1492 to 1630 The more one studies the labours of Joseph Ames and the Rev. William Herbert, in the "Typographical Antiquities," the more striking becomes the industry and care shown in their work. Taking into consideration the difficulties which must have attended the prosecution of research work in the eighteenth century, it is astonishing that they should have found so much information and made so few mistakes. Among other things they recognised the value of wills as historical documents, and endeavoured to trace those of the early printers and stationers. But in their day the records of Doctors Commons were only available to those who had time and money to waste, and the result was that only in three or four cases were their efforts crowned with success. Happily, a better state of things prevails now. The wills of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury down to within the last one hundred years are available to literary men free of charge. The wills, and the registers in which they were copied, have been transferred to Somerset House, where a special room, called the "Literary Search Department," is set apart for literary searchers. Better still, the various genealogical and antiquarian societies throughout the country, notably the British Record Society, realizing the value of this class of documents, have, during the last century, done most valuable work in printing lists and calendars of wills preserved in the various registries. To the British Record Society belongs the distinction of having printed an alphabetical calendar of the wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, from the earliest date down to the year 1604. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.