[Bell Historians] Stedman, the printer
richard.offen
richard.offen at iinet.net.au
Sun Nov 17 04:47:05 GMT 2013
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> On 17 Nov 2013, at 12:45 pm, "richard.offen" <richard.offen at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> 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
>> &a mp;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 &am p;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?
>> & amp; 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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