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- The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561
- The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Plates
- Preface: The Archaeology of a Printed Book
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Conventions
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 From Henry VIII to the First Edwardian Prayer Book
- Chapter 2 The Second Edwardian Prayer Book
- Chapter 3 Mary’s Reign and Elizabeth’s First Parliament
- Chapter 4 Richard Grafton’s Edition (STC 16291)
- Chapter 5 The First Jugge-and-Cawood Edition (STC 16292)
- Chapter 6 The Preliminaries: Collaboration and Cancels
- Chapter 7 The Orphaned Ordinal
- Chapter 8 The Third and Fourth Editions
- Chapter 9 The Quarto and Octavo Editions
- Chapter 10 The 1561 Revision of the Calendar
- Chapter 11 Concluding Summary
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 9 - The Quarto and Octavo Editions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2021
- The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561
- The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Plates
- Preface: The Archaeology of a Printed Book
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Conventions
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 From Henry VIII to the First Edwardian Prayer Book
- Chapter 2 The Second Edwardian Prayer Book
- Chapter 3 Mary’s Reign and Elizabeth’s First Parliament
- Chapter 4 Richard Grafton’s Edition (STC 16291)
- Chapter 5 The First Jugge-and-Cawood Edition (STC 16292)
- Chapter 6 The Preliminaries: Collaboration and Cancels
- Chapter 7 The Orphaned Ordinal
- Chapter 8 The Third and Fourth Editions
- Chapter 9 The Quarto and Octavo Editions
- Chapter 10 The 1561 Revision of the Calendar
- Chapter 11 Concluding Summary
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
After the four folio editions (intended mainly for the use of the clergy), the printers produced some smaller editions for more general sale. They have survived less well than the larger volumes, and while one octavo is known from a complete copy, neither of the quartos is complete and the other octavo is known only from a small fragment. As in Edward’s reign, the small-format editions were accompanied by a psalter, and the quarto psalters reveal a conflict of ‘copyrights’. The stationer William Seres, a former household servant of Sir William Cecil (Elizabeth’s Principal Secretary) had managed in July to acquire a patent that ostensibly gave him a monopoly of psalters, and the two surviving quarto copies were printed for him rather than the Queen’s Printers. That unintended conflict, however, was soon rectified, and by the time the extant octavo was printed the conflict had been resolved.
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