Excerpt from Abstracts From the Wills of English Printers and Stationers: From 1492 to 1630 The reason why abstracts are given in preference to copies of the wills is, first of all, space. Even the shortest of these documents is framed in legal words, which become monotonous with constant repetition, and are of no value from the literary standpoint. Nor, from the point of view of interest, was anything to be gained by printing the wills as a whole. Not even the importance of the testator as a member of the Company of ...
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Excerpt from Abstracts From the Wills of English Printers and Stationers: From 1492 to 1630 The reason why abstracts are given in preference to copies of the wills is, first of all, space. Even the shortest of these documents is framed in legal words, which become monotonous with constant repetition, and are of no value from the literary standpoint. Nor, from the point of view of interest, was anything to be gained by printing the wills as a whole. Not even the importance of the testator as a member of the Company of Stationers, and still less the length of the will, is any guarantee that it will be of interest; indeed, very often the reverse is the case. For instance, the will of John Sedley, stationer, covers seven closely written folio pages, but there is not a word of reference to his business, and the names met with in it have no bearing on the history of printing or bookselling. Again, in the will of Ralph Howell, stationer, who died in 1603, out of two pages, one and a half consists of an expression of his religious belief. No good end would have been served by printing these in full, while the bulk of the volume would have been greatly increased. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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