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Entries of copies are dated 10 May 1822-30 Sep 1823; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually one or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Swaffield's Twenty-five Melodies indexed under 'S'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Significant entries include:

page 78: William Wordsworth's A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England, 3rd edition, published by Longman and Co, 16 Jul 1822.

page 406: William Wilberforce's An Appeal to the Religion, Justice and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire, in behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies, published by Hatchard and Son, 22 Apr 1823.

page 409: Ludwig van Beethoven's Grand Sonata for Pianoforte, published by Clementi and Co, 25 Apr 1823.

page 446: Ludwig van Beethoven's Trifles for the Pianoforte, published by Clementi and Co, 3 Jun 1823.

page 486: Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata for the Pianoforte, published by Clementi and Co, 2 Jul 1823.

Entries of copies are dated 1 Oct 1823-23 Apr 1825; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually one or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Farren's Treatise on Life Assurance indexed under 'F'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Significant entries include:

page 537: [Thomas Hood's] Odes and Addresses to Great People, published by Baldwin and Co, 23 May 1825.

Entries of copies are dated 23 Apr 1825-26 Oct 1826; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually one or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Roe's Introduction to Bookkeeping indexed under 'R'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Pencil note on fly leaf at front of volume reads 'Vol XVI'.

Pencil note on fly leaf at rear of volume reads 'Mr Durham, 31 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury'.

Pasted in at pages 345-346 are documents relating to Richard Elsom's protest against Mr Thomas Kelly's entry of Elsom's The Practical Builder's Perpetual Price Book in the Stationers' Register, 1825-1826.

Significant entries include:

page 317: [Mary Shelley's] The Last Man, published by H Colburn, 26 Jan 1826.

page 476: Anne Radcliffe's Gaston de Blondeville, published by H Colburn, 20 Jun 1826.

Entries of copies are dated 26 Oct 1826-30 Apr 1828; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually one or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Wade's Little Maid and the Bird indexed under 'W'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Pencil note on fly leaf at front of volume reads 'Vol XVII'.

Significant entries include:

page 369: Thomas Hood's The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and other poems, published by Longman and Co, 11 Oct 1827.

Entries of copies are dated 1 May 1828-25 Jan 1830; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually one or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Walsh's The Geometric Base indexed under 'W'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Pencil note on fly leaf at rear of volume reads 'Durham demands for Brit Mus, Trin Col Dub, Camb, Glasgow, St Andrews. Mr Durham, 261 Regent Street'.

page 421: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany, published by J Murray, 19 Jun 1829.

page 539: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany part 2, published by J Murray, 10 Dec 1829.

Entries of copies are dated 25 Jan 1830-20 Jul 1831; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually one or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Howison's Tales of the Colonies indexed under 'H'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Note in ink on fly leaf at front of volume reads, 'In Chancery. Chappell v Purday. Shewn to Joseph Greenhill and Thomas D'Almaine on their respective Examination for the defendant [Signed]'.

Inserted at pages 419-420 is a certified copy of an entry on page 419 of the volume, signed by George Greenhill, 'Warehousekeeper of the Company of Stationers', 3 Mar 1831.

Significant entries include:

page 190: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany part 3, published by J Murray, 12 Jul 1830.

page 312: William Hooker's The British Flora, published by Longman and Co, 12 Nov 1830.

Entries of copies are dated 20 Jul 1831-25 Mar 1833; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually one or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill [Company Treasurer]); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Smith's Pastor and Flock indexed under 'S'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Significant entries include:

page 5: Lord Byron's Works volumes 5 and 6, published by J Murray, 21 Jul 1831.

page 5: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany parts 4 and 5, published by J Murray, 21 Jul 1831.

page 276: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany part 6, published by J Murray, 19 May 1832.

page 277: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany part 7, published by J Murray, 19 May 1832.

Entries of copies are dated 25 Mar 1833-26 Jan 1835; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually one or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill [Company Treasurer]); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg 'Mills's Apology for Church of England' indexed under 'M'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Significant entries include:

page 49: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany part 9, published by J Murray, 18 May 1833.

page 107: William Hooker's Botanical Miscellany part 8, published by J Murray, 16 Jul 1833.

page 294: William Hooker's Journal of Botany part 1, published by J Murray, 12 Mar 1834.

page 349: Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor, published by J Murray, 8 May 1834.

Entries of copies are dated 27 Jan 1835-31 Aug 1836; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually one or eleven, final entry in register records five copies received) and signature of official (George Greenhill); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Robson's Treatise on Marine Surveying indexed under 'R'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Significant entries include:

page 398: William Hooker's English Flora, published by Longman and Co, 15 Mar 1836.

Entries of copies are dated 1 Sep 1836-16 Feb 1838; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually five) and signature of official (George Greenhill); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Robinson's He gave me indexed under 'R'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Significant entries include:

page 149: William Hooker's Icones Plantarum, published by Longman and Co, 3 Mar 1837.

page 297: Gustav Holst's aria All'idea che res non sons, published by C Lonsdale, 9 Jun 1837.

Entries of copies are dated 17 Feb 1838-13 Aug 1839; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually five) and signature of official (George Greenhill); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Leach's Services of rifle brigade indexed under 'L'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Significant entries include:

page 72: Thomas Hood's Hood's Own, or Laughter from Year to Year, published by Baily and Co, 2 May 1838.

page 78: Franz Liszt's Schubert's Admired French and German Melodies, published by Mori and Lavenu, 10 May 1838.

page 133: Franz Liszt's Grand Galop Chromatique, published by Mori and Lavenu, 15 Jun 1838.

page 337: Franz Liszt's Huit Premieres Etudes, published by Mori and Lavenu, 14 Jan 1839.

page 392: Thomas Hood's The Comic Annual, published by Baily and Co, 8 Mar 1839.

Entries of copies are dated 13 Aug 1839-13 Mar 1841; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually five) and signature of official (George Greenhill); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Wells's Rich Man's Duty indexed under 'W'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

Significant entries include:

page 147: Franz Liszt's arrangement of Beethoven's Celebrated Cantata Adelaida, published by L Lavenu, 1 Feb 1840.

page 176: Franz Liszt's arrangement of Schubert's Schwaneng, published by Cocks and Co, 29 Feb 1840.

page 206: Franz Liszt's arrangement of Schubert's Winterreise, published by Cocks and Co, 31 Mar 1840.

page 206: Felix Mendelssohn's Grand Trio, published by JJ Ewel and Co, 2 Apr 1840.

page 207: Thomas Hood's Up The Rhine, published by Baily and Co, 2 Apr 1840.

page 344: Franz Liszt's Etudes d'Execution Transcendante d'apres Paganini, published by Cocks and Co, 20 Jul 1840.

page 426: Franz Liszt's Album d'un Voyageur, published by L Lavenu, 31 Oct 1840.

Entries of copies are dated 15 Mar 1841-1 Jul 1842; information given includes name and address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and often occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually five) and signature of official (George Greenhill); there are ticks in the right hand column beside some entries; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Nesbit's Introduction to Arts and Sciences indexed under 'N'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Register of Books Entered at Stationers Hall'.

The final entry in the volume reads 'From the afternoon of this day when the New Copyright Bill received the Royal Assent, Entries are made in another book according to the form given in the Act'.

Significant entries include:

page 217: Franz Liszt's Reminiscences de Robert le Diable, published by Chappell, 4 Oct 1841.

page 478: Alfred Tennyson's Poems, published by Edward Moxon, 25 May 1842.

Entries of copies are dated 10 Jul 1620-1 Dec 1645 and fill the volume; information given includes name of property owner, name of person/s under whose hand/s the copy is entered, title of work, often name of author and amount paid (usually 6d per title); there are frequent cross references in the margins to entries elsewhere in the volume and in other volumes; a symbol resembling a pointing hand appears occasionally in the margins (most frequently between pages 312 and 363).

Front cover reads 'A Register Booke of Coppies Begining July 1620 Ending November 1645'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Mr Humphrey Lownes, Master, Mr Mathew Lownes, Mr George Cole, Wardens' (new Masters and Wardens are named periodically through the volume).

Fly leaf reads, handwritten, 'Liber D'.

Pasted in the front of the volume are a printed sheet entitled 'The Oath of a Stock-keeper', beginning 'You shall swear to be true to our Sovereign Lady, Queen Anne, and to be obedient unto the Master and Wardens of this Comapny' [temp Queen Anne, 1702-1714], and a letter from Eleanor Pitcher on headed notepaper of The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, 6 Apr 1954.

Inserted at pages 178-179 is a contemporary manuscript page listing selected works and dates between 31 Oct 1622 and 29 Apr 1629, some marked with a cross; some dates refer to entries of the work cited in the register.

Significant entries of copies include:

page 21: [William Shakespeare's] Othello, entered for Thomas Walkley, 6 Oct 1621.

page 69: William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Winter's Tale, Henry VI part 3, Henry VIII, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra and Cymbeline, entered for Mr Blount and Isaac Jaggard, 8 Nov 1623.

pages 111-112: William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece, transferred from Roger Jackson's widow to Francis Williams, 16 Jan 1626.

page 122: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis, transferred from Mr Parker to John Haviland and John Wright, 7 May 1626.

pages 126-128: William Shakespeare's Henry V, Sir John Oldcastle (accredited to Shakespeare) and Titus Andronicus, 'Mr Paviers right in Shakesperes plaies or any of them' transferred from his widow to Edward Brewster and Robert Bird, 4 Aug 1626.

page 140: Francis Bacon's Henry VII, Walter Raleigh's History of the World, Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene, Francis Bacon's Apology, and Ben Jonson's Poetaster, transferred to Thomas Lownes from his late father, Matthew Lownes, 10 Apr 1627.

page 144: Francis Bacon's Henry VII, Walter Raleigh's History of the World, Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene and Ben Jonson's Poetaster, transferred from Thomas Lownes to Master Humphrey Lownes and Robert Young, 30 May 1627.

page 171: Francis Bacon's Henry VII, Walter Raleigh's History of the World, Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene and Ben Jonson's Poetaster, transferred from Master Humphrey Lownes to George Cole and George Latham, 6 Nov 1628.

page 146: Isaac Jaggard's part in Shakespeare's plays, transferred from his widow Dorothy Jaggard to Thomas Cotes and Richard Cotes, 19 Jun 1627.

page 160: [William Shakespeare's] Othello, transferred from Thomas Walkley to Richard Hawkins, 1 Mar 1628.

page 193: [William Shakespeare's] The Merry Wives of Windsor, transferred from Mr Johnson to Mr Meighen, 29 Jan 1630.

page 203: [William Shakespeare's] The Rape of Lucrece transferred from Francis Williams to Mr Harrison, 29 Jun 1630.

page 208: [William Shakespeare's] Henry V, Sir John Oldcastle (accredited to Shakespeare), Titus Andronicus, 'Yorke and Lancaster' (Henry VI parts 2 and 3) and Pericles, Prince of Tyre, transferred from Mr Bird to Richard Cotes, 8 Nov 1630.

page 209: [William Shakespeare's] The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Winter's Tale, Henry VI part 3, Henry VIII, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra and Cymbeline, transferred from Mr Blount to Mr Allot, 16 Nov 1630.

page 211: [Francis Bacon's] Henry VII, Walter Raleigh's History of the World, [Philip Sidney's] Arcadia, [Edmund Spencer's] The Faerie Queene and [Ben Jonson's] Poetaster, transferred from Mr Cole and Mr Latham to Mr Younge, 6 Dec 1630.

page 226: Ben Jonson's The Staple of News, transferred to Mr Allot, 7 Sep 1631.

page 290: 'A Tragicomedy called the two noble kinsmen by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare', entered for John Waterson, 8 Apr 1634.

page 320: Philip Sidney's Arcadia transferred from Simon Waterson to John Waterson, 19 Aug 1635.

pages 361-362: Robert Allot's part in William Shakespeare's works and in [Ben Jonson's] The Staple of News and Bartholomew Fayre, transferred from Allot's to Mr Legatt and Andrew Crooke, 1 Jul 1637.

page 394: [William Shakespeare's] Othello, transferred from Urusla Hawkins, widow of Richard Hawkins, to Mr Mead and Mr Meredith, 29 May 1638.

page 405: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis, entered for John Haviland and John Wright, 4 Sep 1638.

page 415: The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France 'by James Shirley' [judged by some to be by George Chapman and revised by Shirley], entered for Mr Crooke and William Crooke, 24 Oct 1638.

page 425: John Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas, entered for Mr Waterson, 22 Jan 1639.

page 426-427: [William Shakespeare's] Othello, transferred from Mr Mead and Mr Meredith to William Leake, 25 Jan 1639.

page 432-434: Ben Jonson's works, transferred from Elizabeth Stansby, widow of William Stansby, to Mr Bishop, 4 Mar 1639.

page 438: [John Fletcher's] Wit Without Money, entered for Mr Crooke and William Cooke, 25 Apr 1639.

page 461: 'An addicion of some excellent poems to Shakespeares poems by other gentlemen viz. His mistris drawne and her mind by Ben: Johnson', entered for John Benson, 4 Nov 1639.

page 474: Ben Jonson's The Masque of the Gypsies, entered for John Benson, 20 Feb 1640.

page 477: Ben Jonson's The Masque of Augurs, Time Vindicated, Neptune's Triumphs, Pan's Anniversary or The Shepherd's Holiday and other elegies and poems, entered for Mr Crooke and Richard Seirger, 20 Mar 1640.

page 774: John Milton's Poems in English and Latin, entered for Master Mozeley, 6 Oct 1645.

Entries of copies are dated 3 Dec 1645-27 Feb 1657 and fill the volume; information given includes name of property owner, name of person/s under whose hand/s the copy is entered, title of work, name of author and amount paid (usually 6d per title); there are frequent cross references in the margins to entries elsewhere in the volume and in other volumes.

Front cover reads 'A Register Booke of Coppies Begining December 1645 Ending February 1656' [1657 new calendar].

At the top of the first page is written 'Mr Robert Mead, Master, Mr John Parker, Mr George Miller, Wardens' (new Masters and Wardens are named periodically through the volume).

Fly leaf reads 'Stationers Register booke for Entry of Copies. Liber E', and a scribe has practised scrolling and lettering below, including the names 'Thomas', 'J Burroughs' and 'James Cole'.

End pages at rear of volume were used for scrolling and lettering practice, including a verse, 'If thou wouldst knowe the reason why/ I scribled thus my pen to try/ Tis easie to be guest by you/ cause I had nothing els to doe. James Cole'. Elsewhere on the page, 'James Cole, servant to the said J Burroughs', 'Edward Underwood, servant to the said G Tokefeild' and 'Thomas Stephenson'. On the verso of the second end page is written, upside down, 'Richard Royston, Master, Robert White, Samuel Mearne, Wardens'.

Significant entries of copies include:

page 42: [Christopher Marlowe's] Dr Faustus and [Thomas Dekker's] The Shoemaker's Holiday, transferred from John Wright to Edward Wright, 27 Jun 1646.

page 53: Beaumont and Fletcher's The Mad Lover, The Wild Goose Chase, The Little French Lawyer, The Loyal Subject, The Spanish Curate, The Custom of the Country, The Double Marriage, A Wife for a Month, The Island Princess, The Pilgrim, The Laws of Candy, The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tamed, The Knights of Malta, The Captain, The Noble Enemy or The Humorous Lieutenant, Women Pleased, The Tragedy of Bonduca, Monsieur Thomas, The Chances, The Sea Voyage, The Maid in the Mill, The Queen of Corinth, The Coxcomb, The Noble Gentleman, The Beggar's Bush, The Honest Man's Fortune, The Martial Maid, The Tragedy of Valentinian, The Prophetess, Love's Pilgrimage and The Lover's Progress, entered for Mr Robinson and Mr Moseley, 4 Sep 1646.

page 62: John Fletcher's The Elder Brother, Monsieur Thomas and Two Noble Kinsmen [the latter attributed by some to William Shakespeare], transferred from Mr Waterson to Mr Moseley, 31 Oct 1646.

page 130: Philip Sidney's Arcadia, transferred back from Andrew Crooke to John Waterson, 8 Jul 1648.

page 237: John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton's The Widow [judged by some to be solely by Middleton], entered for Mr Moseley, 12 Apr 1652.

pages 285-286: Cardenio by Mr Fletcher and Shakespeare; Thomas Middleton's More Dissemblers Besides Women, A Right Woman or Women Beware Women, No Wit, No Help Like A Woman's, and The Puritan Maid, the Modest Wife and the Wanton Widow; The Merry Devil of Edmonton 'by William Shakespeare', and Henry I and Henry II 'by Shakespeare and Davenport', entered for Mr Moseley, 9 Sep 1653.

page 337: [William Shakespeare's] The Rape of Lucrece transferred from Martha Harrison to John Stafford and William Gilbertson, 15 Mar 1655.

page 341: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis transferred from Edward Wright to William Gilbertson, 4 Apr 1655.