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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.

Entries of copies are dated 2 Mar 1657-24 Jan 1683; 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 very few cross references in the margins to entries elsewhere in the volume.

Front cover reads 'A Register Booke of Coppies Begining March 1656 [new calendar 1657] & Ending January 1682'. [new calendar 1683]

At the top of the first page is written 'The Register of Copies. Mr Robert Meade, Master. Mr Humphrey Robinson, Mr Richard Thrale, Wardens. Anno domini 1656. Liber F' (new Masters and Wardens are named periodically through the volume).

On the final page is a list of five memoranda relating to caveats restricting the entering of specified works, 5 Sep 1675-8 Dec 1682. The list is not in chronological order. At the foot of this page titles have been written upside down that suggest the volume was intended for another use, possibly as a register of shares.

Significant entries of copies include:

page 42: William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, transferred from Bridget Hayes and Jane Graisby to William Leake, 17 Oct 1657.

page 96: Ben Jonson's Works volume 3 containing Fifteen Masques at Court and elsewhere, Horace's Poetry, English Grammar, Timber or Discoveries, Underwoods, The Magnetic Lady, A Tale of a Tub, The Sad Shepherd or A Tale of Robin Hood, and The Devil is an Ass, entered for Thomas Walkley, 17 Sep 1658.

page 107: Ben Jonson's Works volume 3 containing Fifteen Masques at Court and elsewhere, Horace's Poetry, English Grammar, Timber or Discoveries, Underwoods, The Magnetic Lady, A Tale of a Tub, The Sad Shepherd or A Tale of Robin Hood, and The Devil is an Ass, transferred from Thomas Walkley to Humphrey Moseley, 20 Nov 1658.

page 114:

, entered for Henry Herringman, 20 Jan 1659.

page 119: John Milton's A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes, entered for Thomas Newcomb, 15 Feb 1659.

page 193: Beaumont and Fletcher's The False One, The Nice Valour or The Passionate Madman, Wit at Several Weapons, The Fair Maid of the Inn and The Masque of the Gentlemen of Grays Inn and the Inner Temple, entered for Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley, 29 Jun 1660.

page 196: Beaumont and Fletcher's The Faithful Friends, and A Right Woman; also The History of King Stephen, Duke Humphrey, a Tragedy, and Iphis and Iantha or A Marriage Without a Man' by William Shakespeare', entered for Humphrey Moseley, 29 Jun 1660.

page 287: John Dryden's The Rival Ladies, entered for Henry Herringman, 27 Jun 1664.

page 302: John Dryden's The Indian Emperor, entered for Henry Herringman, 26 May 1665.

page 330: John Dryden's Annus Mirabilis, entered for Henry Herringman, 21 Jan 1667.

page 336: John Dryden's An Essay of Dramatick Poesie, The Wild Gallant and The Maiden Queen, entered for Henry Herringman, 7 Aug 1667.

page 336: Ben Jonson's Works volume 3 containing Fifteen Masques at Court and elsewhere, Horace's Poetry, English Grammar, Timber or Discoveries, Underwoods, The Magnetic Lady, A Tale of a Tub, The Sad Shepherd or A Tale of Robin Hood, Mortimer's Fall, The Devil is an Ass, and The Widow, transferred from Ann Moseley, widow of Humphrey Moseley, to Henry Herringman, 19 Aug 1667.

page 337: John Milton's Paradise Lost, in ten books, entered for Samuel Symons, 20 Aug 1667.

page 356: John Dryden's Tyrannick Love, or the Royal Martyr, entered for Henry Herringman, 14 Jul 1669.

page 369: John Milton's Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, entered for John Starkey, 10 Sep 1670.

page 378: John Dryden's Almanzor and Almahide or the First and Second Part of the Conquest of Granada, entered for 25 Feb 1671.

page 413-416: Fletcher and Beaumont'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, 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, transferred from Humphrey Robinson to John Martin and Henry Herringman, 30 Jan 1673.

page 417: John Dryden's The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery, entered for Henry Herringman, 18 Mar 1673.

page 418: John Dryden's Amorous Adventures, or Marriage a la Mode, entered for Henry Herringman, 18 Mar 1673.

page 423: John Dryden's Amboyna, or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants, entered for Henry Herringman, 26 Jun 1673.

page 458: [William Shakespeare's] Henry V, Sir John Oldcastle, Titus Andronicus, Eurialus and Lucetia, 'Yorke and Lancaster' (Henry VI parts 2 and 3), Agincourt, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Hamlet, A Yorkshire Tragedy, 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 Elianor Cotes, widow of Richard Cotes, to John Martin and Henry Herringman, 6 Aug 1674.

page 499: John Dryden's Aureng Zebe, or the Great Mogul, entered for Henry Herringman, 29 Nov 1675.

page 535: Aphra Behn's The Rover, or the Banished Cavalier, entered for John Amery, 7 Jul 1677.

page 547: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come, entered for Nath. Ponder, 22 Dec 1677.

page 557: John Dryden's All for Love, or the World Well Lost, entered for Master Herringman, 31 Jan 1678.

page 598: John Dryden's Truth Found Too Late, entered for Jacob Tonson and Abel Swall, 14 Apr 1679.

page 602: John Dryden's The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy, entered for Jacob Tonson and Abel Swall, 18 Jun 1679.

There are two series of entries of copies in this volume. Much of the volume is unused. The main series of entries of copies is dated 29 Jan 1683-12 Feb 1696; information given includes name of property owner, title of work, name of author, and amount paid (usually 6d per title); entries include name of person/s under whose hand/s the copy is entered, and from 27 Feb 1683 for a period of about a year the name of a witness (mostly Martin Newton, occasionally John Walston or William Scoresby) is usually given (see description below of new method of entry on page 8); from 27 Feb 1683 to 31 Mar 1687 a signature is present for each entry, often but not always that of the property owner; from 7 Apr 1687 the entries in Liber G were copied from the draft register of entries of copies (see TSC/E/07) and the draft register contains the original signatures; there are very few cross references in the margins to entries elsewhere in the volume.

Spine reads, handwritten, 'Book of Entry of Coppies from 1682 [new calendar 1683] to 1695'. [new calendar 1696]

At the top of the first page is written 'The Register of Copies. Mr Samuel Mearn, Mr Francis Tyton, Mr Henry Hills, Wardens'.

The second series of entries of copies is dated 10-29 Apr 1710, and is found towards the end of the volume, entered upside down, comprising 23 unnumbered pages; at the top of the first page of this series of entries is written 'Anno domini 1710 Captain William Phillips, Master. Mr Thomas Hodgkin, Mr John Baskett, Wardens'; information given includes name of property owner, title of work, name of author, and amount paid (usually 6d per title); the property owner often signs the entry. An insert in this section is a sheet of paper with the text of an entry of 19 Apr 1710, from which the entry may have been made, or may be a copy of the entry.

A pencil note on the front fly leaf reads 'The 14 leaves at end should be extracted and put with the 1710-46 vol'.

On page 8 a new method of entry is recorded: 'Stationers Hall. A New Meathod of Entry of Bookes Pursuant to a By Law of this Company made & Ordained at a Comon Hall the 6 day of Decem 1682 and approved, confirmed and ratifyed by the Right Honorable Sir Francis North, knight, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England, Sir Edmund Saunders, knight, Lord Cheife Justice of His Majesties Court of Kings Bench, & Sir Francis Pemberton, knight, Lord Cheife Justice of His Majesties Court of Comon Pleas at Westminster by Deed under their hands & Seales the 10th day of February 1682, begun the 27th of February 1682'.

On the final page of the volume is a list of five entries of caveats (a sixth dated 10 Aug 1687 is scored out) restricting the entering of specified works, 4 Aug 1684-9 Aug 1687. The list is in chronological order and at the foot of the page is written, 'This was don by me the 27th March 1689. Witnesse my hand Hugh Ryder'.

An insert at pages 188-189 is a note in a later hand of page 8 'New Method of Entry' and page 20 'John Kigdale a whole Duty of Man'.

[Myers states 'Includes entries for 4 Apr 1684 to 12 Jan 1686 (7 ff) - I can't see what she is referring to, unless mistakenly to the final page of the volume]

Significant entries of copies include:

page 34: William Shakespeare's Hamlet entered for Robert Everingham, with a note, 'This book is to be printed by me for Richard Bentley, he not being free of the Company it is entred in my name in trust for him. RE'. A memorandum in the margin notes that 'a moyetie of this coppy belongs to Mr Henry Herringman. Witnesse John Garrett Ck [Clerk] this 19th Dec 1683, & was the whole entred to Mr Everingham by mistake', 19 May 1683.

page 58: John Milton's Paradise Lost, in twelve books, entered for Brabazon Aylmer, 24 Jul 1683, after being assigned to Brabazon Aylmer by Samuel Simons, 27 Oct 1680.

pages 63-73: 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, 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 four plays or moral representations; also William Shakespeare's Henry V, Sir John Oldcastle, Titus Andronicus, Eurialus and Lucetia, 'Yorke and Lancaster' (Henry VI parts 2 and 3), Agincourt, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Hamlet, A Yorkshire Tragedy, 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 Sarah Martin, widow of John Martin, to Robert Scott, 21 Aug 1683.

page 95: John Dryden's An Essay of Dramatick Poesie and Marriage a la Mode, entered for Master Herringman, 8 Nov 1683.

page 170: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come. The second part, entered for Nath. Ponder, 22 Nov 1684.

page 226: Aphra Behn's The Disappointed Marriage, or the Generous Mistress, entered for Edward Poole, 8 May 1686.

page 247: Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon, entered for Jos. Knight and Francis Saunders, 24 May 1687.

page 247: John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther, entered for Jacob Tonson, 27 May 1687.

page 282: Tracts of John Milton, entered for Awnsham Churchill, 30 Jan 1689.

page 309: John Dryden's The Prologue and Epilogue to the History of Bacon in Virginia, entered for Jacob Tonson, 20 Nov 1689.

page 311: John Dryden's Don Sebastian, King of Portugal, entered for Jos. Hindmarsh, 17 Dec 1689.

page 331: John Dryden's translation into English verse of the first, sixth and tenth Satires of Juvenal, entered for Jacob Tonson, 9 Feb 1691.

Entries of copies are dated 30 Nov 1695-3 Jul 1708; most of the volume is unused; the number of entries compared to previous registers is reduced, and from 1701 there are fewer than 10 entries per year; entries are chronological except the final two entries which are inverted; information given includes name and signature of property owner, name of person/s under whose hand/s the copy is entered, title of work, occasionally name of author, and amount paid (usually 6d per title).

A handwritten title on the front cover is faded and illegible. On the inside cover is a note in ink: 'This volume contains many original signatures of those whose books were entered'.

The first 12 entries, 30 Nov 1695-12 Feb 1696, are also found at the end of TSC/E/06/06 ('Liber G').

Significant entries of copies include:

page 7: Aphra Behn's The Nun, or the Fair Vow-Breaker, entered for Samuel Lowndes, 3 Feb 1697.

page 23: Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh, entered for Henry Mortlock, 2 Jul 1698.

Entries of copies are dated 28 Apr 1710-25 Sep 1746; information given includes name and signature of property owner, share (usually the 'whole', sometimes 'a moiety', etc), title of work, often name of author, amount paid (usually 6d per title) and frequently number of copies [ie of the work] received; until Apr 1725 most entries are annotated 'New' or 'Old'; there are no cross references in the margins; with integral index by property owner (see Copies field below for later index)

At the top of the first page is written 'A Register of the Copies of Books beginning the 10th of Aprill 1710, Pursuant to an Act of Parliament Anno Octavo Regine Anne Entitled An Act for the Encouragment of Learning by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copy dureing the Times therein Mentioned. Mr William Phillips, Master, Mr Thomas Hodgkin, Mr John Basket, Wardens'.

A pencil note on the front fly leaf reads 'For April 10-29 1729 (including R. Mount's navigation books) see end of 1682-95 volume'.

Inserted are:

pages 379-380: letter to Mr Simpson [Thomas Simpson Junior, Treasurer, 1734-1755] at Stationers Hall from John Darby enclosing 'nine of Hibernicus's Letters, as printed in the Dublin Journal, which I enter'd in the Hall-book, I think, about a year or two ago', 26 Apr 1729.

pages 428-429: correction to an entry on page 313.

pages 454-455: letter to Mr Simpson from Bernard Linton requesting that he 'enter the property of this first volume of Mr Popes Works in my name till Mr Tonson can clear up his right to Mr Popes satisfaction', 22 Jan 1735.

pages 470-471: letter to Mr Simpson from B Motte requesting he be given notice if 'the Tracts of Scriblerus come to be enter'd in the Hall Book', 6 May 1737.

Significant entries of copies include:

page 242: [John Arbuthnot, John Gay, and Alexander Pope's] Three Hours After Marriage, entered for Bernard Lintot, 19 Jan 1716.

page 278: [Daniel Defoe's] Robinson Crusoe, entered for William Taylor ('written by himself'), 3 Aug 1720.

page 344: Gulliver's Travels, entered for Benjamin Motte, 29 Nov 1726.

page 402: [Henry Fielding's] The Author's Farce and the Pleasures of the Town, entered for John Watts, 10 Apr 1730.

page 409: [Henry Fielding's] Rape Upon Rape, entered for John Watts, 23 Jul 1730.

page 418: [Henry Fielding's] The Letter Writers or a New Way to Keep a Wife at Home, entered for John Watts, 12 Apr 1731.

page 418: [Henry Fielding's] The Tragedy of Tragedies or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, entered for John Watts, 12 Apr 1731.

page 422: Henry Fielding's The Modern Husband, entered for John Watts, 22 Feb 1732.

page 533: Samuel Richardson's Pamela volumes 1-2, entered for Samuel Richardson, Charles Rivington and John Osborn, 4 Nov 1740.

page 547: Samuel Richardson's Pamela volumes 3-4, entered for Samuel Richardson, 30 Nov 1741.

Entries of copies are dated 2 Oct 1746-30 Dec 1773; information given includes name (not address) of property owner and until May 1770 sometimes signature of property owner, share (usually the 'whole'), title of work, often name of author, amount paid (usually 6d per title), number of copies [ie of the work] (usually nine) received, and from Jul 1755 initials of official ('RH' [R Horsfield, see page 259] until Dec 1765, thereafter 'GH'); with integral index by property owner, and separate index arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Canin's Poems. (See Copies field below for later index).

At the top of the first page is written 'A Register of the Copies of Books beginning the 29th day of September 1746 pursuant to an Act of Parliament in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne Entituled an Act for the Encouragement of Learning by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the authors or Purchasers of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned. Mr Thomas Brewer, Master; Mr Thomas Ridge, Stephen Theodore Janssen Esq, Wardens'.

16 pages at the rear of the volume are blank.

On front fly leaf is a pencil note in a 20th-century hand: 'Dr Johnson's Dictionary p 154 Vol II'.

Inserted are:

pages 124-125: running account by Messrs Mount & Page [of copies ordered?]. On reverse [totals?] alongside names: Robinson & Dodsley; The Editor; and Blackwell .

pages 134-135: note which reads 'A Sermon preached at Pinners Hall, on occasion of the Death of the Late Reverend James Foster DD. Who departed this life Nov 5 1753. With memoirs of his Life and Character By Caleb Fleming. Entered by John Payne and Robert Whitworth', undated

pages 150-151: letter from John Swinton junior to Mr Alexander Kincaid and Company, booksellers in Edinburgh, authorising the transfer of a book entitled An Abridgement of the Public Statutes in Force and Use relative to Scotland from the Union [...], with a note 'This to be given into Stationers Hall with the Book', 24 Jan 1755.

Significant entries include:

page 55: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, entered for Andrew Millar, 3 Feb 1748.

page 132: Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison vols 1-2, entered for himself, 1 Oct 1753.

page 134: Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison vols 3-4, entered for himself, 7 Nov 1753.

page 136: Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison vol 5, entered for himself, 5 Dec 1753.

page 139: Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison vol 6, entered for himself, 11 Mar 1754.

page 154: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, entered for J & S Knapton, T & T Longman, C Hitch and L Hawes, A Miller and R & J Dodsley, 10 Apr 1755.

page 293: Horace Walpole's Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard III, entered for J Dodsley, 2 Feb 1768.

page 294: [Laurence Sterne's] A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, entered for J Becket and PA Dehoudt, 27 Feb 1768.

page 335: Oliver Goldsmith's The Defeated Village, entered for himself, 26 May 1770.

page 375: Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, entered for Francis Newbery, 26 Mar 1773.

page 380: Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral, entered for A Bell, 10 Sep 1773.

Entries of copies are dated 3 Jan 1774-28 Aug 1786; information given includes name and occasionally address (but not signature) of property owner, share (usually the 'whole'), title of work, usually name and sometimes occupation/position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] (usually nine) received, and initials or signature of official (GH until Jan 1780, J Wilkie until Aug 1785, then Robert Horsfield); until 10 Jun 1785 the amount paid (usually 6d per title) is included; occasional annotations record that a certificate was subsequently issued and date of issue (eg page 236a an annotation of 1786, and on page 233b an annotation of 1797); integral index by property owner, and two separate indexes (1774-1783 and 1783-1786) arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Giardini's Six Quartets indexed under 'G'.

A note in ink on a front fly leaf reads 'The above written is a true Copy of an Entry in the Register Book of the Company of Stationers kept at the Hall of the said Company. Witness my hand this day of 17___ J B Clerk to the Company of Stationers' [possibly the required wording for the issue of certificates].

At the top of a later front fly leaf is written 'A Register of the Copies of Books beginning the 1st day of January 1774 pursuant to an Act of Parliament in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne Entitled an Act for the Encouragment of Learning by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned. Mr John Beecroft, Master; Richard Walkden, William Strahan Edq, Wardens'.

Inserted at pages 75-76 is a note of owners and their shares in Young's Night Thoughts (the title is entered on page 76), undated.

Significant entries include:

page 51: Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 14 Feb 1776.

page 53: Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 7 Mar 1776.

page 76: Edward Young's Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, entered for T & F Rivington, William Johnston, T Longman, E & C Dilly, T Cadell, W Otridge and T Dodley, 1 Mar 1777.

page 104: The Old English Baron

page 129: [Frances Burney's] Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, entered for T Lownds, 18 Feb 1779.

Entries of copies are dated 1 Sep 1786-31 May 1792; information given includes name (but not address or signature) of property owner, share (usually the 'whole'), title of work, usually name and sometimes occupation/position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually nine), and initials or signature of official (Robert Horsfield); the amount paid is not recorded; marginal annotations record when certificates were subsequently issued and date of issue, mostly in the same year but some as late as 1802; a marginal note on page 473 refers to an omission which is entered later in the volume; with integral index by property owner, and separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Dixon's Four Services in Score indexed under 'D'.

A note in ink on the front fly leaf reads 'The above written is a true Copy of an Entry in the Register Book of the Company of Stationers kept at the Hall of the said Company. Witness my hand this day of 17___ J B Clerk of the Company of Stationers' [possibly the required wording for the issue of certificates].

Inserted are:

at pages 99-100 a letter from Benjamin Matthews to Mr Fuller, Bookseller, Ave Maria Lane, which reads 'Pray be so good as to enter the Sermon in the Stationers Hall Book as follows: The Property of Benjamin Matthews Bookseller of Bath In trust for a Child who is a Cripple', dated 'Saturday morning 19th Inst'.

at pages 253-254 a note, 'Thoughts on General and Partial Inoculations. The Property of The Honorable Baron Thomas Dimsdale one third, Thomas Carnan one third, Francis Newbery Junior one third', undated.

Significant entries include:

page 196: Wolfgang Mozart's Trio for Pianoforte, entered for Longman and Broderip, 3 Dec 1788.

page 224: 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African', entered for the author, 25 Mar 1789.

page 383: Thomas Paine's 'Rights of Man, being an answer to Mr Burke's attack on the French Revolution', entered for the author, 19 Feb 1791.

page 425: John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, entered for Mary Luckman, 15 Jul 1791.

page 456: Joseph Haydn's 'A Grand Overture as performed at Mr Salomons Concert Hanover Square', entered for Longman and Broderip, 30 Nov 1791.

page 470: Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman', entered for the author, 20 Jan 1792.

page 478: Thomas Paine's 'The Rights of Man part the Second Combining Principle and Practice', entered for the author, 13 Feb 1792.

Entries of copies are dated 1 Jun 1792-31 Aug 1795; information given includes name (but not address or signature) of property owner, share (usually the 'whole'), title of work, often name and sometimes occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually nine), and signature of official (Robert Horsfield); the amount paid is not recorded; marginal annotations record when certificates were subsequently issued and date of issue, mostly in the same year; a marginal note on page 125

records the surrender of a claim on a work, 15 May 1797; with integral index by property owner, and separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Emerson on City Laws indexed under 'E'.

A note in ink on the front fly leaf reads 'The above written is a true Copy of an Entry in the Register Book of the Company of Stationers kept at the Hall of the said Company. Witness my hand this day of 17___ J B Clerk of the Company of Stationers' [possibly the required wording for the issue of certificates].

page 30: Muzio Clementi's Sonata for the Piano Forte, and a famous Toccata for the Harpsichord or the Piano Forte, Opus 11, entered for Joseph Dale, 21 Sep 1792.

page 53: Thomas Augustine Arne's New Edition of Artaxerxes. A Serious Opera, entered for Joseph Dale, 26 Nov 1792.

page 79: Muzio Clementi's Three Sonatas for the Piano Forte with accompaniments for a violin and violoncello, Opus 29, entered for Joseph Dale, 24 Jan 1793.

page 135: Muzio Clementi's Three Sonatas for the Piano Forte with accompanyments for a flute and violoncello ad libitum, Opus 32, entered for Preston and Son, 5 Jun 1793.

page 215: Joseph Haydn's A Favourite Overture in all its part, entered for William Forster, 13 Jan 1794.

page 215: Joseph Haydn's Three Sonatas for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte with an accompaniment for a violin and violoncello, Opus 40, entered for William Forster, 13 Jan 1794.

page 216: Joseph Haydn's Three Sonatas for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte with an accompaniment for a violin and violoncello, Opus 42, entered for William Forster, 13 Jan 1794.

page 299: Muzio Clementi's Three Sonatas for the Piano Forte, entered for Longman and Broderip, 3 Jun 1794.

Entries of copies are dated 1 Jun 1792-31 Aug 1795; information given includes name (but not address or signature) of property owner, share (usually the 'whole'), title of work, often name and sometimes occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually nine), and signature of the Treasurer of the English Stock (Robert Horsfield until Jan 1797, followed by a period with no signature, then from Oct 1797 George Greenhill); the amount paid is not recorded; marginal annotations record when certificates were subsequently issued and date of issue, mostly in the same year; a marginal note on page 35 records a correction to the name of an owner entered in error; with integral index by property owner, and separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Ash's Grammatical Institutes indexed under 'A'.

A note in ink on the front fly leaf reads 'The above written is a true Copy of an Entry in the Register Book of the Company of Stationers kept at the Hall of the said Company. Witness my hand this day of 17___ J B Clerk of the Company of Stationers' [possibly the required wording for the issue of certificates].

Significant entries include:

page 101: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poems, entered for Joseph Cottle, 14 Apr 1796.

page 202: Ann Radcliffe's The Italian, entered for T Cadell Junior, W Davies and Ann Radcliffe, 9 Dec 1796.

Entries of copies are dated 29 Apr 1799-30 Apr 1806; information given includes name (but not address or signature) of property owner, share (usually the 'whole'), title of work, usually name and sometimes occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually nine up to 24 Aug 1801, thereafter eleven copies), and signature of official (George Greenhill); marginal annotations record when certificates were subsequently issued and date of issue, mostly in the same year; with integral index by property owner, and separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Allen's Table of Tolls indexed under 'A'.

Inserted at pages 146-147 is a list of four works by Piozzi, Walker, Albin and Dennis, copied from entries dated 1801 on those pages, undated.

Significant entries include:

page 64: Ludwig van Beethoven's Canzonetta for the Pianoforte, poetry by William Wennington, entered for William Wennington, 12 Dec 1799.

page 164: [Samuel Richardson's] Pamela, a new edition, entered for multiple owners, 13 Apr 1801.

page 417: Ludwig van Beethoven's Grand Sonata and Variations on 'God Save the King', entered for Clementi, Banger, Hyde, Collard and Davis, 3 & 7 Sep 1804.

page 468: Ludwig van Beethoven's Grand Sonata, entered for Robert Birchall, 9 May 1805.

Entries of copies are dated 2 May 1806-21 Sep 1813; information given includes name (but not address or signature) of property owner, share (usually the 'whole'), title of work, usually name and sometimes occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (usually eleven) and signature of official (possibly the Clerk); marginal annotations record when certificates were subsequently issued and date of issue, mostly in the same year; with integral index by property owner, and separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Levizac's Dictionaire des Synonymes indexed under 'L'.

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

Inserted are:

at pages 384-385 is letter and memorandum from Joseph Gleave of Manchester to the Worshipful Company of Stationers transferring his rights in a book called 'A New English Spelling Dictionary' to the editor, Thomas Jackson, at whose request the book had been entered by Gleave in the register, 24 Aug 1814.

page 305: Ludwig Van Beethoven's 'Anxiety of Absence', a favourite Arietta, Composed with an accompaniment for the Piano-Forte, entered for Clementi, 31 Oct 1810.

page 306: Ludwig Van Beethoven's 'The Lover', a favourite Arietta, Composed with an accompaniment for the Piano-Forte, 31 Oct 1810.

page 306: Ludwig Van Beethoven's Grand Concerto for the Piano-Forte, as newly constructed by Clementi With additional Keys up to F falso arranged for Piano-Forte up to C, with accompaniments for full orchestra, entered for Clementi, 1 Nov 1810.

Entries of copies are dated 22 Sep 1813-15 Jan 1816; information given includes name of property owner and from August 1814 name and address of publisher is increasingly given, until Sep 1814 the share is given (usually the 'whole'), title of work, usually name and sometimes occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (until August 1814 usually eleven, thereafter one, seven or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); until August 1814 marginal annotations record when certificates were issued and date of issue, mostly in the same year; integral index blank, and separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Goldsmith's Fugitive Pieces indexed under 'G'.

A pencil note on the front fly leaf reads 'Vol 9'.

A pencil note on the fly leaf at the rear of the volume reads 'List for Nov & Dec sent to British Museum, Oxford, Cambr, Fac. Adv. Edin [Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh]'.

Inserted at pages 321-322 is an envelope from the War Office addressed to 'CR Rivington Esq (or the Clerk to the Stationers' Co), Fenchurch Building, EC', 13 Jul [no year].

Significant entries include:

page 90: William Wordsworth's The Excursion, entered for Longman and Co, 27 Aug 1813.

page 279: William Wordsworth's Poems including Lyrical Ballads, published by Longman and Co, 2 May 1815.

page 327: William Wordsworth's The White Doe of Rylstone or The Fate of the Nortons, published by Longman and Co, 30 May 1815.

page 385: Walter Scott's Rokeby, published by Longman and Co, 2 Aug 1815.

page 451: [Walter Scott's] Waverley, published by Constable and Co, 3 Oct 1815.

page 474: Walter Scott's The Field of Waterloo, published by Longman and Co, 7 Nov 1815.

Entries of copies are dated 15 Jan 1816-27 Jun 1817; information given includes name and usually address of publisher, sometimes separate property owner, title of work, usually name and sometimes occupation or position of author, number of copies [ie of the work] received (one, seven or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); integral index blank; separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Mason's Statistical Account of Ireland indexed under 'M'.

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

A pencil note on the front fly leaf reads 'Vol 10'.

Significant entries include:

page 1: Ludwig van Beethoven's Grand Battle Symphony, published by R Birchall, 15 Jan 1816.

page 27: Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake, The Vision of Don Roderick, The Field of Waterloo and other poems, published by Longman and Co, 5 Mar 1816.

page 31: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Alastor, published by Baldwin, Cradock and Co, 13 Mar 1816.

page 58: Walter Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel, published by Longman and Co, 3 Apr 1816.

page 102: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Christabel, Kubla Khan and The Pains of Sleep, published by John Murray, 11 May 1816.

pages 119-120: Lord Byron's Poems, published by John Murray, 27 May 1816.

page 203: Lord Byron's Reflections on Shipboard, published by RS Kirby, 13 Aug 1816.

page 268: Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Sonata No 10, Opus 96, published by R Birchall, 29 Oct 1816.

page 319: Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Trio, Opus 97, published by R Birchall, 5 Dec 1816.

page 329: Lord Byron's The Prisoner of Chillon and other poems, published by John Murray, 14 Dec 1816.

page 330: Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III, published by John Murray, 14 Dec 1816.

page 332: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Statesman's Manual, published by Gale and Fenner, 18 Dec 1816.

page 358: Ludwig van Beethoven's Grand Symphony in A, published by R Birchall, 7 Jan 1817.

page 551: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Blessed are Ye that Sow Beside All Waters, published by Gale and Fenner, 26 Jun 1817.

page 553: Lord Byron's Manfred, published by John Murray, 26 Jun 1817.

Entries of copies are dated 27 Jun 1817-6 Feb 1819; information given includes name and usually 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 (one, seven or eleven) and signature of official (George Greenhill); separate index is arranged by title or by author's name followed by title eg Mulvey's Sketches of the Character indexed under 'M'.

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

A pencil note on the front fly leaf reads 'Vol XI'.

Pencil note on fly leaf at rear of volume reads 'Mr Cartright, Passage is to [...] [...] in to Queen's Square'.

Significant entries include:

page 74: Lord Byron's Lament of Tasso, published by John Murray, 4 Sep 1817.

page 163: Jeremy Bentham's Plan of Parliamentary Reform, published by Rowland Hunter, 16 Dec 1817.

page 183: [Mary Shelley's] Frankenstein, published by Lackington and Co, 15 Jan 1818.

page 199: Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Revolt of Islam, published by C and J Ollier, 29 Jan 1818.

page 235: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Zapolya, Sibylline Leaves and Biographia Literaria, published by Rest Fenner, 4 Mar 1818.

page 311: John Keats' Endymion, published by Taylor and Hessey, 19 May 1818.

page 509: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Friend, published by Rest Fenner, 12 Dec 1818.