The following list provides a small selection of the resources related to the Renaissance Essay available for use in Rare Books and Special Collections. Many of these titles are held in multiple editions, incarnations, and copies. Books are listed chronologically in order of publication under each author. Students have an opportunity to practice the proper handling of early materials, as well as gain an understanding of the experience of reading during the Renaissance. To request a class visit, please email the Curator.
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
[Advancement of learning.] The two bookes of Sr. Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of learning, divine and hvmane.
London: Printed for William Washington, and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard, 1629.
Rare Books Collection B1192 .A11629
335 p. 19 cm. Notes: Printed by N. Okes. Cf. STC 1165. Better known under title: Advancement of learning. An expanded translation was first published in 1623 under title: De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum, becoming afterward better known as De augmentis scientiarum. Errors in paging. First published in 1605.
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Certaine miscellany works of the Right Honovrable Francis Lo. Verulam, viscount S. Alban. Pvblished by William Rawley.
Published: London, Printed by I. Hauiland for H. Robinson, 1629.
Rare Books Collection B 1155 1629
[8], 166 p. Contents: Considerations touching a warre with Spaine.--An advertisement tovching an holy warre.--An offer to Ovr Late Soueraigne King Iames, of a digest to be made of the lawes of England.--The history of the reigne of King Henry the Eighth.References: STC 1124. Notes: Each part has special title-page. Signatures: A-Y4 (A4 blank, wanting). Bookplate: Ex Libris Fairfax of Cameron.
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Sylva sylvarum : or, A naturall historie. In ten centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. published after the authors death, by William Rawley ...
London : Printed by John Haviland for William Lee, and are to be sold by Iohn Williams, 1635.
Rare Books Collection QH41 .B2 1635
260, 47 p. : front.(port.) ; 28 cm. Notes: Added engraved t.-p., dated 1631. With this is bound the author's: New Atlantis. Armorial bookplate of Steuart of Allanton. STC 1172
Donne, John, 1572-1631. Biathanatos.
A declaration of that paradoxe, or thesis, that selfe-homicide is not so naturally sinne, that it may never be otherwise. Wherein the nature, and the extent of all those lawes, which seeme to be violated by this act, are diligently surveyed. Written by Iohn Donne.
London, Printed by John Dawson, [1644]
Rare Books Collection HV6544 D7
9 p.l., 218 (i.e. 220) p. 19 cm. Notes: Edited by his son, John Donne The dedicatory epistle signed, Io: Donne i.e. John Donne, 1604-1662. Error in paging: nos. 191-192 repeated.
Donne, John, 1572-1631.
[Correspondence. Selections.] Letters to severall persons of honour written by John Donne, sometime Deane of St. Pauls London ; published by John Donne, Dr. of the civill law.
London : Printed by J. Flesher, and are to be sold by John Sweeting ..., 1654.
Rare Books Collection PR 2248 .A3 1654
[6], 318 p. ; 19 cm. Sheets of the 1st edition with cancel t.p. Wing D1865; Keynes 56.
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.
The essayes or Morall, politike and millitarie discourses of Lo: Michaell de Montaigne ... First written by him in French. ; And now done into English by ... Iohn Florio.
[London] : Printed at London by Val. Sims for Edward Blount ..., 1603.
Rare Books Collection PQ1642. E5 F6 1603
[20], 179, [9], 193-450, [10], 475-664, [4] p. ; 30 cm. (fol. in 6s) References: STC (2nd ed.) 18041 ; Pforzheimer 378 Notes: Translated by John Florio. "By" at foot of t.p. is a catchword to the dedication (on verso of t.p.); the translator's name and the imprint follow the dedication. In three parts, each with special t.p. Copies are said to be extant with four pages of errata. Head- and tail-pieces. Signatures: A8 [par.]² B-Q6 R4 S-2P6 2Q 4 (-2Q4) 2R4 2S-3I6 3K4 chi2.
Yates, Frances Amelia. John Florio; the life of an Italian in Shakespeare's England by Frances A. Yates. New York, Octagon Books, 1968.
Main Collection--FML PR 2276.F5 Z85 1968
364 p. 21 cm. Includes: "Bibliography: John Florio's works": p. [345]-349.Notes: Reprint of the 1934 ed.
The Stationer's Company
Blagden, Cyprian. The Stationers' Company, a history, 1403-1959. Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1960.
Main Collection--FML Z329.S79 B5
321 p.; ill.
Greg, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959. Some aspects and problems of London publishing between 1550 and 1650. Lyell lectures 1955. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956.
NIU--Main Collection--FML Z325 .G82
v, 131 p. 23 cm. Includes: Bibliographical footnotes. References: McCoy, Freedom, G278
The Stationers' Company and the book trade, 1550-1990 edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris. St. Paul's bibliographies Publishing pathways. New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press, 1997.
NIU--Main Collection--FML Z329.S79 S74 1997
xiii, 210 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Includes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
McKerrow, Ronald Brunlees, 1872-1940. A dictionary of printers and booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of foreign printers of English books 1557-1640, by H. G. Aldis [and others]. General editor: R. B. McKerrow. London, Bibliographical Society, 1968.
NIU--Rare Books Reference Z151 .D51 1968
xxiii, 346 p. 22 cm. Includes: Bibliography: p. [xxi]-xxiii. Notes: First published in 1910.
Plomer, Henry Robert, 1856-1928. A dictionary of the booksellers and printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667, by Henry R. Plomer. London, Bibliographical Society, 1968.
NIU--Main Collection--FML Z151 .D52 1968
NIU--Rare Books Reference Z151 .D52 1968
xxiv, 199 p. 22 cm. Notes: First published in 1907.
Stationers' Company (London, England). Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company. Publications (Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)) 1955 and 1956. London, Bibliographical Society, 1930-
NIU--Main Collection--FML Call Number: Z329 .S79 v. 2
Rare Books Reference Z329 .S79 v. 1 v. 2
NIU--Reference 1st FL Z329 .S79 Copy: 3: v. 2
Contents.--[v. 1] 1576-1602, from Register B, ed. by W. W. Greg & E. Boswell.--[v. 2] 1602-1640, ed. by William A. Jackson. Notes: Vol. 2 issued as Bibliographical Society publication forthe years 1955 and 1956.
Greg, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959. A companion to Arber: being a calendar of documents in Edward Arber's "Transcript of the registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640" with text and calendar of supplementary documents edited by W.W. Greg. Oxford, Clarendon P., 1967.
NIU--Main Collection--FML Z151.3 .G68 1967
ix, 451 p. 25 cm.
Stationers' Company (London, England). A transcript of the registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640 A.D. London, Priv. print., 1875-94. [Reprinted, Gloucester, Mass., Peter Smith, 1967],5 v.
NIU--Reference 1st FL--FML Z 2002 .S79 1875A v. 1-v. 5
Stationers' Company (London, England) A transcript of the registers of the worshipful Company of Stationers, from 1640-1708 A.D. London, Priv. print., 1913-14. [New York, P. Smith, 1950]
NIU--Reference 1st FL--FML Z2002 .S791 1913A v. 1-v. 3
3 v. 26 cm. Contents: v.1. 1640-1655.--v.2 1655-1675.--v.3 1675-1708.
McKenzie, D. F. (Donald Francis). Stationers' Company apprentices, 1605-1640. Charlottesville, Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1961.
NIU--Main Collection--FML Z122.5.G73 M3
178 p. 25 cm. Notes: Compiled from the Register of apprentices, 1605-1666, and the Register of freemen, 1605-1704, unprinted records of the Stationers' Company of London. "Part I ... was published in Studies in bibliography, XIII (1960)."
McKenzie, D. F. (Donald Francis) Stationers' Company apprentices, 1641-1700 edited by D.F. McKenzie. Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications. New series ; v. 17. Oxford, [Eng.] : Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1974.
NIU--Main Collection--FML Z122.5.G73 M32
x, 234 p. ; 25 cm. Notes:
Stationers' Company (London, England) Extracts from the registers of the Stationers' Company : of works entered for publication between the years 1557 and 1587 with notes and illustrations by J. Payne Collier. Shakespeare Society, London. Publications ; v.12. Nendeln : Kraus Reprint, 1966.
NIU--Main Collection--FML PR2888 .L51966
Physical Description: 2 v. in 1 ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes indexes. Reprint of the 1848 and 1849 editions.
Williams, William Proctor, 1939- Index to the Stationers' register, 1640-1708 : being an index to A transcript of the registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers from 1640-1708 A.D., edited by Eyre, Rivington & Plomer (1913-1914). Edited by William P. Williams. Published: La Jolla, Calif. : L. McGilvery, 1980.
NIU--Reference 1st FL--FML--Non-Circulating Call Number: Z2002 .S7913 1980
Physical Description: 67 p. ; 28 cm. + Includes: 2 microfiche (11 x 15 cm.) Notes: Microfiche in pocket. "300 copies published."