Ordinances of the Stationers' Company.
1678—1682. A.D.
^LL the earlier manuscript Ordinances appear to have perished.
It is however very necessary to a right understanding of the
operations of the Company that we should give the earliest known
(privately-printed) text of them, which are those printed in 1678,
1682 and 1683. These Regulations, though they may vary in
some particulars, are doubtless substantially the same as those
now lost: and they are, with some variations, the Ordinances at present in
force in the Company.
i^iid(on^0 of Wilt Clin of ilotUv<i%
for the bell QSiObtvninQ of tftat Soirtetg^
L OND ON,
Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1678.
16 Fed. 167|.
We do allow the Printing of these Orders for the Use of
the Members of the Company.
Richard Rainseord.
Francis North.
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