PDF hosted at the Radboud Repository of the Radboud University Nijmegen The following full text is a publisher's version. For additional information about this publication click this link. http://hdl.handle.net/2066/148221 Please be advised that this information was generated on 2021-10-10 and may be subject to change. ^rans Kellendonk John & Richard Marriott The History of a Seventeenth-Century Publishing House Promotor: Prof. T.A. Birrell Copyright с 1978 Ъу Frana Kellendonk, Amsterdam Deze uitgave kwam tot stand in samenwerking met Polak & Van Gennep Uitgeversmaatschappij B.V. , Amsterdam. ISBN 90 253 5535 Table of contents p. ν Introduction ix Abbreviations χ List of illustrations 3 I. John and Richard Marriott. Their lives and ca­ reers 19 II. Relations with authors 21 In partnership vith Gnsmand. George Wither, Mi­ chael Drayton, Mary Wroth. 27 Francis Quarles 31 The works of John Donne 46 Izaak Walton 67 Conclusion 69 Notes 75 III. A chronological list of books, published by John, Richard, and George Marriott 195 IV. Entries and assignments to John and Richard Marriott, not dealt with in the previous list 212 Indexes to parts III and IV 215 Bibliography 220 General index iii Introduction In his Life of John Milton David Masson devoted a few pages to the London booksellers and publishers of Milton's time, in which he remarked: 'All in all, the chiefs of the London book-trade, in poetry a.nd whatever the phrase "the finer literature" can include, had been Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriott, and Henry Herringman. But of these three chiefs one was still the chief. Marriott and Herringman would have knelt to Humphrey Moseley' (VI, 400). Since then articles have been written about Moseley by John Curtis Reed and about Herringman by Clarence William Miller (see my Biblio­ graphy), but Richard Marriott has remained unstudied, and so has his father, John Marriott, who is of equal importance, but is not mentioned by Masson because the main part of his career was before Milton's time. In the following pages I hope to do justice to these stationers, who published some of the best literature of their age, among which the works of John Donne, of Francis Quarles, the first part of Samuel Butler's Hudibras, and Izaak Walton's Lives and Compleat Angler. It is common knowledge by now that the changing economic conditions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries affected literature profoundly. The spread of wealth and the increase of literacy created a new middle-class reading public with its own tastes and interests, and owing to the decline of patronage authors gradually diverted their attention from the aristocracy to this new public. In the seventeenth century print began to lose its stigma and authors began· to look upon the press as a le­ gitimate means of supplementing their income, especially after the publishing boom of I64O-6O, whereas before then a literary profession had only been possible in the theatre and poetry was written by amateurs and circulated in manuscript as a rule. In this period the modern man-of-letters came into being. At the same time publishers began to specialize in belles lettres, and Moseley, the Marriotts, and Herringman were publishers with a marked interest in literature, even though they continued to issue books in other fields, especially theology. The consequen- r cea of this development were far-reaching and would eventually prepare the way for the novel. Publishers who, to cull a phrase from Q.D. Leavis's Fiction and the Reading Public, are the middle­ men between the writer and his audience, performed an essential part m this development and therefore literary scholarship should not pass them by. Until now no full study of publishing in the seventeenth century has appeared. H.G. Aldis, Cyprian Blagden, H.S. Bennett, P.M. Handover, F.A. Mumby, Marjory Plant, ana J.W. Saunaers all devote invaluable chapters to this period, but what their books provide are either sweeping surveys or accounts which, owing to the bias of their subjects, touch only laterally on the history of pu­ blishing at that time. Nor will such a full study be possible until at least the more important of seventeenth-century statio­ ners will have been dealt with in detail. This study has no loftier pretention than to be a systematic presentation of all the facts concerning John and Richard Marriott and their publications that I have been able to gather. The mam text of this thesis treats first the lives and careers of John and Richard Marriott, which have been reconstructed with the aid of manuscript materials from Stationers' Hall, the Guildhall Library, and the Public Record Office, and secondly their publi­ shing policy, which I have investigated by concentrating on their relations with authors and by devoting separate sections to the publication of works by John Donne, Francis Quarles and Izaak Walton. I am, of course, heavily indebted to previous research on these authors, due acknowledgement of which is made in my notes and Bibliography. Especially David Novarr's The Making of Walton's Lives has proved a rich mine of information. In the 'Chronological List of Books, Published by John and Richard Marriott', which tells the history of the Marriott firm in the fullest possible detail, the items have been arranged chronolo­ gically and, within each year, alphabetically. I have transcribed the title-pages in quasi-facsimile. Italics have been indicated by underlining, the use of red ink by dotted underlining. Mottoes and extended decnptions of contents have been omitted from the transcriptions for the sake of brevity. Author names that do not vi appear on the title-pagea have been supplied between square brae-. keta; author names that can be proved to be incorrect have been put between quotation marks. The descriptions of the title-pages are followeo by a short collation formula, the entry from the Stationers' Registers, a note indicating the libraries where I bave examined copies and, where possible, by the date on which George Thomason purchased the book and the advertisement from the Term Catalogues. Any additional information -e.g. on printers, engravings, variants- is given m the annotations, which also copy the publisher's prefaces ard contain accounts of the book's publication, if available, and if not dealt with in the main text. Each item has been numbered and the numbers of previous and later issues and editions are supplied between brackets. For the compi­ lation of this list I have used the copies in the British Library, the Bodleian Library, and Cambridge University Library. Of books of which no copies were to be found in these libraries I have tried to obtain microfilms. In a few cases I have not succeeded and there I have copied descriptions from whatever catalogues and bibliographies were available. The list of 'Entries and Assignments' contains extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company which could not conveniently be dealt with in the previous list. Assignments of batches of books have been listed and also assignments of titles that do not appear to have been published above the Marriott imprint, either because the transfer was not only a transfer of copyright, but also of stock and further editions were deemed unnecessary, or because the transferred title was published above another statio­ ner's imprint. Entries for new titles that were not published above the Marriott imprint must be interpreted as concerning books that either were published for another bookseller, or were not published at all, which is what the annotation 'not traced' must be taken to mean, unless it is assumed that all copies of such a book have been lost. The arrangement is again chronologi­ cal and the items have been numbered in italics, so as to distin­ guish them from the numbers in the previous list. Both lists have been indexed on authors, printers, partners, and engravers. Throughout this thesis I have expanded contractions and abbrevi­ vi! ations in quotations from seventeenth-century sources which might not be immediately understandabxe, and I have assumed the year to begin on 1 January. This thesis could not have been undertaken, let alone completed, without the aid and encouragement of others. At various stages of its composition I have had the honour to profit by the knowledge of Messrs. I.A. Shapiro and R.L. Smallwood of the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham, and of Mr. H.M. Nixon, Keeper of the Muni­ ment Room and Library in Westminster Abbey. Thanks are also due to Mrs. Miriam Foot-Romme, who allowed me to consult the type­ script of NSTC in the British Library, and to Miss N. Carol Evans, who kindly invited me to avail myself of her corrections to Wing. A grant from the British Council has enabled me to do my research in England. I am very much obliged to the staff members of the libraries where I have worked, who patiently and without questio­ ning heaped pile after pile of books on my desk. I also thank the editors of Neophilologus for their permission to reproduce sub­ stantial parts of my article 'Izaak Walton and Sir Henry Wotton's Panegyriek of King Charles'. The publication of this book would have been much more difficult without the aid of Messrs. Johan Polak and Ben Hosman. Finally I must express my gratitude to all those colleagues, friends and relatives, whose constant enquiries after the progress of this thesis shamed me into finishing it. viii Abbreviations anr. - arother Butt - John Butt, 'A Bibliography of Izaak Walton's Lives', Oxford Bnblicgraphical Society. Proceecings and Papers, vol. II.