Stationers' Company

John Healey 's English version of the Latin Mundus alter et idem, 1605, by satiristJoseph Hall was licensed by the Stationers' Company as A Discovery of a New World.

Shakespeare 's Sonnets were registered with the Stationers' Company ; they were published (whether by the author or as some kind of piracy) the same year.

The Stationers' Company agreed to deposit, free of charge, in the Bodleian Library one copy of every book that was published.

Shakespeare 's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, collected (with one or two omissions) and posthumously published this year in a handsome large-format edition (the First Folio) were registered with the Stationers' Company .

The Stationers' Company ruled that journeymen were to remove paper from the printing press themselves, and not use girls and boys to do it.

The Star ChamberDecree Concerning Printing forbade non-members of the Stationers' Company to sell books retail. This ruling would have barred all women from the publishing business; but it was not observed.

The Long Parliament took a decisive step towards re-establishing government control over printing: a Licensing Order was enacted to take over the censorship function formerly exercised by the Court of the Star Chamber and relinquished...

Milton published The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, a pamphlet arguing that divorce ought to be easier (for a husband).

Joanna Nye , an Essex parson's daughter, was bound apprentice to Thomas Minshall , engraver: the first woman so bound, under the Act for the Encouragement of Learning, to the Stationers' Company .

John Bunyan 's famous allegoricalnarrative the Pilgrim's Progress (sometimes later called a novel) was licensed by the Stationers' Company ; it was published this year.

Tace Sowle , aged twenty-five, took over from her elderly father, Andrew , the family printing firm (which that year distributed books to 151 Quaker meetings, as well as bookshops in England, Europe, and the...

John Dunton dedicated volume 11 of his Athenian Mercury to the fictional Worshipfull Society of Mercury-Women . . . of London.

The government's failure to renew the Printing or Licensing Act ended pre-publication censorship (through the need to obtain a licence), as well as controls on the number of master printers.

Following the deaths, intestate, of her husband, Henry Beighton , and their only son, Elizabeth Beighton secured, with some difficulty, the editorial or managerial role in The Ladies' Diary for herself.