Example sentences of "[art] stationers ' company " in BNC.

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1 , Michael ( c. 1588–1653 ) , stationer and author , was born in Eynsham , Oxfordshire , c .1588 , the son of Richard Sparke , a husbandman according to the records of the Stationers ' Company , to which Michael was apprenticed in 1603 .
2 In Scintilla ( 1641 ) he attacked printing monopolies , named monopolists , and urged that the Stationers ' Company should be run more democratically .
3 From March 1645 , when he became deputy licenser to Rushworth , until March 1647 when both men were dismissed , presumably for political reasons , Mabbott 's name appears regularly in the Stationers ' Company register .
4 As ‘ agent of the army ’ his name reappeared in the Stationers ' Company register during 1653–5 , when he entered The Perfect Diurnall and several pamphlets .
5 He served an apprenticeship with the London bookseller Abel Roper from 1 August 1644 until 28 June 1652 , when he became free of the Stationers ' Company .
6 At about the same time he began buying copyrights : the first book to bear his imprint was an edition of Horace 's Lyrics , published in 1653 ; the first copyright he registered with the Stationers ' Company was a translation by Sir Kenelm Digby [ q.v. ] of Albert the Great 's Treatise Adhering to God , entered 19 September 1653 .
7 Although numerous entries in the Stationers ' Company register attest to the variety of Herringman 's early trade list , he concentrated on the publication of belles-lettres from the 1660s .
8 A year later he became master of the Stationers ' Company .
9 He was apprenticed to a bookseller , Humphrey Robinson , on 4 February 1635 , and became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 1 March 1643 and a liveryman in 1657 .
10 [ L. Rostenberg , Literary , Political , Scientific , Religious , and Legal Publishing , Printing and Bookselling in England , 1551–1700 : Twelve Studies , 2 vols. , 1965 ; idem , ‘ John Martyn , Printer to the Royal Society ’ , Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America , vol. xlvi , 1952 ; C. A. Rivington , ‘ Early Printers to the Royal Society , 1663–1708 ’ , Notes and Records of the Royal Society , vol. xxxix , part 1 , 1984 ; records of the Stationers ' Company ; A. R. and M. B. Hall ( eds . ) ,
11 While retaining an interest in the Artillery Company , he transferred to the Stationers ' Company in 1777 , becoming a liveryman in 1776 at the time of his move to 33 Leadenhall Street .
12 William became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 6 December 1591 .
13 Jaggard 's first book was registered with the Stationers ' Company on 4 March 1595 ; he rapidly became a successful businessman .
14 He had printed four volumes before the lord chamberlain forbade the Stationers ' Company to print any of the King 's Men 's plays without permission .
15 [ Edward Arber , A Transcript of the Registers of the Stationers ' Company 1554–1640 , 1875–94 ; E. Gordon Duff , A Century of the Book Trade , 1905 ; Henry R. Plomer , Abstracts from the Wills , 1903 ; A. W. Reed , Early Tudor Drama , 1926 ; Colin Clair , ‘ Thomas Berthelet , Royal Printer ’ , Gutenberg Jahrbuch , 1966 ; A. W. Pollard et al . ,
16 He started work at the Stationers ' Company School , London , in 1874 , and by the time he took up a post at Grantham Grammar School in 1884 he had already taught in Saffron Walden , Winchester , Newbury , and Cambridge .
17 Software , as it is written and developed , can be deposited with an independent person ( for example , a bank manager or solicitor or the Stationers ' Company ) who can verify important dates such as when the software was first written and when it was modified .
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