A decree of Star Chamber concerning printing, made July 11, 1637
Subtitle: reprinted by the Grolier Club from the first edition by Robert Barker, 1637.
Contributors: English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Reprinted by the Grolier Club ...
Published: 1884
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
Subjects: Freedom of the press -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- 17th century.; Printing industry -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Government and the press -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Other titles: Decree of Star Chamber concerning printing, made the eleventh day of July, 1637; Decree of Starre-Chamber concerning printing made the eleuenth day of July last past, 1637
Notes: From reproduction of the original 1637 t.p.: A decree of Starre-Chamber concerning printing, made the eleuenth day of July last past, 1637. Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, 1637.
Colophon on recto of p. [93]: Press of Theo. L. De Vinne & Co., New-York.
"One hundred and fifty copies printed from type, in the month of December, 1884 ...": page [3].
Pagination: [7] leaves (including 1884 t.p. and preface, etc.); [33] leaves reproducing the 1637 ed. (beginning with the leaf before the 1637 t.p. which is blank except for signature-mark "A" in part of a woodcut, and ending with a leaf without signature-mark that would be leaf H5 of original - the leaf before it has signature-mark H4); [7] leaves (historical background on the 1637 ed. in an "Appendix," and the colophon leaf).
Original ed. listed in STC (2nd ed.) as no. 7757.
LC copy numbered 93 of 150 copies printed.