Lecture: Maureen Bell and Tom Lockwood: Ordered That the Clerke henceforward shall keepe a Wast Booke….
17 December @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
This paper identifies and explores ‘The Wast Register booke for entring of Coppies’ that the Stationers’ Company started to keep on 7 April 1687. We will locate that document among the Company’s records, and show the ways in which it provides a new opportunity both to investigate the practices of the Stationers and to cast new light on Restoration authors and their work.