[Bell Historians] Stedman, the printer
richard.offen
richard.offen at iinet.net.au
Sun Nov 17 04:45:09 GMT 2013
Wrong Richard! I think you want Richard Smith.
Best wishes,
Richard (Offen)
Sent from Richard Offen's iPhone
> On 17 Nov 2013, at 2:25 am, "alan_ellis at telus.net" <alan_ellis at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Hello Richard,
>
> Your input about Fabian Stedman is very interesting indeed. I am no expert on the
> specifics of each of the early books, for that you need the input of Eddie Martin and
> John Eisel and others.
>
> All I can do is provide a list of the early books and whether facsimile copies exist or
> not. Here goes:
>
> Title Date Original @ Facsimile
> Tintinnalogia 1668 CCCBR Yes - Bell News 1895 - Not a true facsimile
> &n bsp; - Kingsmead Reprint 1970
> - Ellis Publications 2007
> Tintinnalogia 1671 Bodleian Yes - Ellis Publications (two sizes) 2007
>
> Campanalogia 1677 ; CCCBR Yes - Christopher Groome 1990
> Campanalogia 1680 Washington No - Hybrid Copy Only - Ellis Publications
> Cathedral Library
> Campanalogia 1698 Ellis Library No - Copy Only - Ellis Publications
>
> Campanalogia 1702 CCCBR No - Copy Only - Ellis Publications
> Improved
> Campanalogia 1705 Ellis Library No - Copy Only - Ellis Publications
> Improved
> Campanalogia 1733 CCCBR Yes - Christopher Groome 1983
> Improved
> Campanalogia 1753 Bodleian No - Copy Only - Ellis Publications
> Improved
> Campanalogia 1766 Ellis Library Yes - Ellis Publications 2009
> Improved Ye s - Bell News (Date Unknown) - Not a true facsimile
>
> Clavis Campanalogia Ellis Library Yes - Bell News (Date Unknown) - Not a true facsimile
> 1788 No - Copy Only - Ellis Publications
> New Campanalogia Ellis Library Yes - Christopher Groome 1975
> c1800 &nb sp; (No - Copy Only - Ellis Publications)
> A Key to the Art of Ringing
> c1810 SCACR No - Hybrid copy only - Ellis Publications
> A Key to the Art of Ringing
> 1815 ASCY Library No - Hybrid copy only - Ellis Publications
>
> All known originals and their locations have not been indicated above.
> The Bell News books have been reprinted and are not by facsimile copy.
> My 'copies' are not fit for printing and publication as considerable cleaning is needed first.
> Hybrids are created by taking copies of the original title page and using text from other
> editions where the text is identical.
>
> Any one know of any others?
> & nbsp;
> Best wishes,
>
> Alan Ellis
>
> From: "Richard Smith" <richard at ex-parrot.com>
> To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 6:49:06 AM
> Subject: [Bell Historians] Stedman, the printer
>
>
>
> I've spent a short time this morning looking through some of
> the records of the Worshipful Company of Stationers (of
> which Stedman was a member) which have been transcribed
> quite thoroughly in the three-volumn /Transcripts of the
> Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers: From
> 1640-1708 AD/, London (1913-4).
>
> Under the Licensing of Press Act (1662), all books had to be
> licensed by an appointed Licenser, who for the duration of
> the act was Sir Roger L'Estrange. The act lapsed in 1679.
> So far as I can make out, records of these licensings appear
> in the records of the Stationers' Company. Certainly the
> records of the company seem little more than a list of books
> printed by its members, together with the payment of a
> nominal 6d fee.
>
> I can only find mention of five works printed by Stedman.
> They are as follows:
>
> 16o Junii 1665
>
> Master Fab. Stedman . . . Entred . . . under the hands of
> M aster L'Estrange and Master Warden Pulleyn a paper
> Intituled, /To His royall highnesse Duke of Yorke a
> Congratulatory Poem on that signall victory obteined by his
> Maties Navy under his heroick conduct agt ye States fleet of
> the United Netherland on ye 3d of June 1665/ . . . vj.d
>
> 16o Junii 1665
>
> Master Fab. Stedman . . . Entred . . . under the hands of
> Master L'Estrange and Master Warden Pulleyn, a paper
> intituled, /An Essay uppon the late victory obteined by his
> royall Highnesse the Duke of Yorke agt the Dutch, uppon
> June ye 3d 1665/, by the author of Iter Boreale/ . . . vj.d
>
> February 8 1667 [i.e. 1667/8]
>
> Master Fabyan Stedman . . . Entred . . . under the hands of
> Master L'Estrange and Master Warden Royston a booke or copie
> intituled /Tintinnalogia or the Art of Ringing/ By a Lover
> of that Art . . . vj.d
>
> 5th September 1676
>
> Master Fabian Stedman . . . Entred . . . under the hands of
> Master Roger L'Estrange and Master Warden Clark a book or
> copy intituled /The Art of Ringing improved wth plaine &
> easy rules to guide the practiconer in the ringing of all
> sorts of changes, to wch is added 98 new crosse peales./
>
> 11th Decembr. 1676
>
> Master Fabian Stedman . . . Entred . . . under the hands of
> Roger L'Estrange Esqr and Master Warden Clark a book or copy
> intituled /Eighteene very practicall peales upon six & eight
> hells composed wth mixt grounds, togeather wth a second
> Imperiall Bob/, Composed by F. S.
>
> Of the five works, three were described as "a book or copy"
> and were on ringing; the other two were merely "a paper"
> congratulating the Duke of York (later James II). The
> Stationers' records may well be incomplete, but there seems
> no reason why they should favour ringing works rather than
> others, so I can only assume that a high proportion of his
> works were on ringing.
>
> Stedman had be en apprenticed to Daniel Pakeham, a master
> printer, on 7 July 1656. Apprenticeships had been fixed at
> seven years by the Statute of Artificer (1562), and very
> nearly seven years later on 4 July 1663, Stedman became a
> Freeman of the Stationers' Company. He was not yet a master
> printer, and it's unlikely he ever became one. Stedman may
> have been the licensed publisher of these works, but he did
> not have a press on which to print it. If he had continued
> as a printer, he would have been a journeyman in the employ
> of some other master printer, but John Eisel speculates that
> he had become a bookseller (c.f. RW 2010 p.489-90).
>
> Of the five works mentioned above, I have only heard of
> three of them. There is a copy of the essay to the Duke of
> York in the British Library, but the congratulatory poem, so
> far as I can tell, has not to have survived. Tintinnalogia
> is well known. The fourth work, 'The Art of Ringing
> improve d' is clearly Campanalogia, although the title of
> first edition of Campanalogia (1677) concludes "Ringing of
> all kinds of Changes, to Which is added, great variety of
> new peals." Other than changing "all sorts" to "all kinds",
> the title no longer concluded "added 98 new crosse peales":
> "crosse" had been removed, and "98" changed to "great
> variety of".
>
> This leaves the fifth work, also on ringing. /Eighteene very
> practicall peales upon six & eight hells composed wth mixt
> grounds, togeather wth a second Imperiall Bob/, Composed by
> F.S. Was this another early ringing book that has since
> become lost? Or had the contents of it become merged with
> that of his other planned book of 1676 to form the 1677
> Campanalogia? This could explain why the "98 new crosse
> peales" was changed on the cover. It might also explain
> Trollope's observation that Tintinnalogia bore L'Estrange's
> imprimatur, where Campanalogia did not (c. f. Trollope MS vol
> ii, p.428). Maybe Campanalogia was not ever licensed for
> publication in its final form, but produce by combining the
> two works that had both been licensed?
>
> Has there ever been a facsimile reprint made of the 1677
> Campanalogia? I have copies of the third (1733) and sixth
> (1766) editions, but I do not have access to the first
> edition to check this. If there were a "second Imperiall
> Bob" composed by Stedman in the first edition Campanalogia,
> this would be a strong clue.
>
> RAS
>
>
>
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