 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Tragedy) - 1905 - 704 pages
...to be vendible, whether the Author be willing or no, he will publish it ; And it shall be contriued and named alsoe, according to his owne pleasure :...Bookes come forth imperfect, and with foolish titles.' The publisher Jones was indifferent to the complaint, and in 1 f j>4 he exposed the poet Breton to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Adonis (Greek deity) in literature - 1905 - 702 pages
...to be vendible, whether the Author be willing or no, he will publish it 5 And it shall be contriued and named alsoe, according to his owne pleasure :...Bookes come forth imperfect, and with foolish titles.' THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 17 The publisher Jones was indifferent to the complaint, and in i jj>4 he exposed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English poetry - 1905 - 140 pages
...to be vendible, whether the Author be willing or no, he will publish it; And it shall be contriued and named alsoe, according to his owne pleasure :...Bookes come forth imperfect, and with foolish titles.' The publisher Jones was indiffèrent to the complaint, and in i 7 94 he exposed the poet Breton to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1905 - 696 pages
...to be vendible, whether the Author be willing or no, he will publish it; And it shall be contriued and named alsoe, according to his owne pleasure: which...Bookes come forth imperfect, and with foolish titles.' THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 17 The publisher Jones was indifferent to the complaint, and in 15-94 he exposed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Adonis (Greek deity) in literature - 1905 - 696 pages
...George Wither had in mind when he wrote of the ^f Jcajfaanfy s stationer that * he oftentymes giues bookes such names as in his opinion will make them saleable, when there is little or nothing in the whole volume sutable to such a tytle'.1 The title which Jaggard devised has... | |
 | Harry Gidney Aldis - Book industries and trade - 1909 - 52 pages
...powre, likely to be vendible ; whether the Author be willing or no, he will publish it ; And it shallbe contrived and named alsoe, according to his owne pleasure...Bookes come forth imperfect, and with foolish titles— with much more in the same vein. But the publisher of that day was not necessarily a mere profit seeker,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1909 - 608 pages
...likely to be vendible ; •whether the Author be willing or no, he will publish it ; And it shallbe contrived and named alsoe, according to his owne pleasure...Bookes come forth imperfect, and with foolish titles — with much more in the same vein. But the publisher of that day was not necessarily a mere profit... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1910 - 354 pages
...when the impression of some pamphlet lyes upon his hands to imprint new titles for yt. .. If he get any written Coppy into his powre, likely to be vendible,...Bookes come forth imperfect and with foolish titles. .. If he once gett to be an officer in the Company he forgetts to speake in the first person for ever... | |
 | Local history - 1920 - 662 pages
...1625, contains a very interesting character sketch of a good stationer and another of a bad stationer.1 It must of course be remembered that Wither's quarrels...nothing in the whole volume sutable to such a Tytle.* It was probably somewhat more than forty years later that Samuel Butler wrote his character of A Stationer,... | |
 | Colonial Society of Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1920 - 690 pages
...edition of a book; and when the impression of some pamphlet lies upon his hands, to imprint new Tides for it (and so take men's moneys twice or thrice for...opinion will make them saleable, when there is litle or nothuig in the whole volume sutable to such a Tytle.2 It was probably somewhat more than forty years... | |
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If he gett any written Coppy into his powre, likely to be vendible, whether the Author be willing or no, he will publish it; And it shall be contrived and named alsoe, according to his owne pleasure: which is the reason, so many good Bookes come forth... 
