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Stationers' Register entry for Arden of Faversham, from Shakespeare Documented
In the early days of print, the Stationers' Company in London had a monopoly on publishing. The guild created a register (the Stationers' Register) that documented publishers' rights to produce particular printed works. This served as a way to check the authenticity of printed…
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