P · Registering books

Stationers' Register entries per year

10,453Entries 1557–1640

Key point

The register holds 10,453 entries for 1557–1640: 1,226 in the 1560s and 1,637 in the 1630s. No entries survive for July 1571 to July 1576.

Definition: Copy entries (permissions to publish) made in the register of the Stationers' Company each year.
Formula: entries per year by the SRO sort date
How to read it: About a thousand or more entries per decade: 1,226 in the 1560s, 1,637 in the 1630s.
Caveats: No entries survive for July 1571 to July 1576. Before 1637 entrance was not compulsory (SRO). Entries are not a count of books printed.

Shaded: 1571–1576, for which no entries survive, and 1637, when entrance became compulsory.

Table

Year	Entries	Works	Gap
1557	35	81	0
1558	31	49	0
1559	8	9	0
1560	74	88	0
1561	106	129	0
1562	124	175	0
1563	61	70	0
1564	65	87	0
1565	216	237	0
1566	140	145	0
1567	110	111	0
1568	126	127	0
1569	204	204	0
1570	91	94	0
1571	0	0	1
1572	0	0	1
1573	0	0	1
1574	0	0	1
1575	0	0	1
1576	44	44	0
1577	88	104	0
1578	124	177	0
1579	157	212	0
1580	198	215	0
1581	153	157	0
1582	93	167	0
1583	73	131	0
1584	57	73	0
1585	39	43	0
1586	94	299	0
1587	122	127	0
1588	166	182	0
1589	132	146	0
1590	179	204	0
1591	149	298	0
1592	126	143	0
1593	120	137	0
1594	162	214	0
1595	148	155	0
1596	103	133	0
1597	106	117	0
1598	133	156	0
1599	100	109	0
1600	123	186	0
1601	117	138	0
1602	139	172	0
1603	129	152	0
1604	157	179	0
1605	145	165	0
1606	165	167	0
1607	158	193	0
1608	159	176	0
1609	146	233	0
1610	129	174	0
1611	124	256	0
1612	193	238	0
1613	159	235	0
1614	164	199	0
1615	150	207	0
1616	133	169	0
1617	120	196	0
1618	143	236	0
1619	189	208	0
1620	132	287	0
1621	149	213	0
1622	216	228	0
1623	192	243	0
1624	178	369	0
1625	93	148	0
1626	125	451	0
1627	131	273	0
1628	116	193	0
1629	96	218	0
1630	151	326	0
1631	150	271	0
1632	126	314	0
1633	154	242	0
1634	140	228	0
1635	134	223	0
1636	105	157	0
1637	187	344	0
1638	263	520	0
1639	227	377	0
1640	189	277	0

Exact count: counted straight from a structured source, or transcribed by hand and checked against the page images

Source: SRO TEI, 10,453 entries; decade totals equal the SRO website's search counts in every decade

Giles Bergel & Ian Gadd (eds.), Stationers' Register Online, CREATe, University of Glasgow. TEI of the register volumes corrected against the manuscripts, GitHub gbergel/SRO_data (reg_A–reg_D-updated.xml, commit 562db00, 2019-08-27). The project website states a 'CC-BY-SA licence'; the TEI header states 'Creative Commons Attribution' (CC BY 4.0). This site distributes its entry table under the stricter CC BY-SA 4.0. (CC BY-SA 4.0 (entry table); https://stationersregister.online)