Example sentences of "[prep] the stationers ' company " in BNC.
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1 | , Michael ( c. 1588–1653 ) , stationer and author , was born in Eynsham , Oxfordshire , c .1588 , the son of Richard Sparke , a husbandman according to the records of the Stationers ' Company , to which Michael was apprenticed in 1603 . |
2 | He served an apprenticeship with the London bookseller Abel Roper from 1 August 1644 until 28 June 1652 , when he became free of the Stationers ' Company . |
3 | A year later he became master of the Stationers ' Company . |
4 | He was apprenticed to a bookseller , Humphrey Robinson , on 4 February 1635 , and became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 1 March 1643 and a liveryman in 1657 . |
5 | [ L. Rostenberg , Literary , Political , Scientific , Religious , and Legal Publishing , Printing and Bookselling in England , 1551–1700 : Twelve Studies , 2 vols. , 1965 ; idem , ‘ John Martyn , Printer to the Royal Society ’ , Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America , vol. xlvi , 1952 ; C. A. Rivington , ‘ Early Printers to the Royal Society , 1663–1708 ’ , Notes and Records of the Royal Society , vol. xxxix , part 1 , 1984 ; records of the Stationers ' Company ; A. R. and M. B. Hall ( eds . ) , |
6 | William became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 6 December 1591 . |
7 | [ Edward Arber , A Transcript of the Registers of the Stationers ' Company 1554–1640 , 1875–94 ; E. Gordon Duff , A Century of the Book Trade , 1905 ; Henry R. Plomer , Abstracts from the Wills , 1903 ; A. W. Reed , Early Tudor Drama , 1926 ; Colin Clair , ‘ Thomas Berthelet , Royal Printer ’ , Gutenberg Jahrbuch , 1966 ; A. W. Pollard et al . , |
8 | At about the same time he began buying copyrights : the first book to bear his imprint was an edition of Horace 's Lyrics , published in 1653 ; the first copyright he registered with the Stationers ' Company was a translation by Sir Kenelm Digby [ q.v. ] of Albert the Great 's Treatise Adhering to God , entered 19 September 1653 . |
9 | Jaggard 's first book was registered with the Stationers ' Company on 4 March 1595 ; he rapidly became a successful businessman . |
10 | From March 1645 , when he became deputy licenser to Rushworth , until March 1647 when both men were dismissed , presumably for political reasons , Mabbott 's name appears regularly in the Stationers ' Company register . |
11 | As ‘ agent of the army ’ his name reappeared in the Stationers ' Company register during 1653–5 , when he entered The Perfect Diurnall and several pamphlets . |
12 | Although numerous entries in the Stationers ' Company register attest to the variety of Herringman 's early trade list , he concentrated on the publication of belles-lettres from the 1660s . |
13 | While retaining an interest in the Artillery Company , he transferred to the Stationers ' Company in 1777 , becoming a liveryman in 1776 at the time of his move to 33 Leadenhall Street . |
14 | He started work at the Stationers ' Company School , London , in 1874 , and by the time he took up a post at Grantham Grammar School in 1884 he had already taught in Saffron Walden , Winchester , Newbury , and Cambridge . |