Hyder Edward Rollins (1889–1958)
Autore di The Renaissance in England; non-dramatic prose and verse of the sixteenth century
Sull'Autore
Opere di Hyder Edward Rollins
A Pepysian Garland: Broadside Ballads of the Years 1595-1639, Chiefly from the Collection of Samuel Pepys (1922) — A cura di — 17 copie
The pack of Autolycus : or, Strange and terrible news of ghosts, apparitions, monstrous births, showers of wheat,… (1969) 9 copie
Cavalier and Puritan Ballads and Broadsides Illustrating the Period of the Great Rebellion 1640-1660 (1923) 3 copie
An analytical index to the ballad-entries (1557-1709) in the registers of the Company of Stationers of London (1924) 3 copie
The Pepys Ballads, Volumes I-III 2 copie
Opere correlate
Tottel's Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others (Penguin Classics) (1897) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 64 copie
Studies in Bibliography (Vol. 9) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1889-11-08
- Data di morte
- 1958-07-25
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Abilene, Texas, USA
- Istruzione
- Southwestern University
University of Texas
Johns Hopkins University
Harvard University
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 24
- Opere correlate
- 13
- Utenti
- 177
- Popolarità
- #121,427
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 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"]… (altro)