[Bell Historians] Stedman, the printer

richard.offen richard.offen at iinet.net.au
Sun Nov 17 04:47:05 GMT 2013


Oops! Sorry, didn't notice that was a Bell Historians posting!

R

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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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