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4 R. Day. London: Printed for the company of Stationers
1608. HEHL. 60968 S.T.C. 6432.
5th + final edition - all editions have the
same portrait of Queen Elizabeth.

Richard Yardley - printer in London 1589-97,
The star, on Bread St. Hill.
Apprentice to Richard Jugge, stationer of London for 7 yrs.
In 1589 he joined Peter Short at the Star, on Bread St. Hill,
but he died before July 4th 1597.
Peter Short - printer in London 1589 - 1603. He
appears to have succeeded to the business of Henry
Denham + was 1st in partnership with R. Yardley.
Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 (1598).
Lucrece (1598).

Day, Daye, or F'aje, Richard - eldest son of the printer John Dya,
by his 1st wife - printer, translator + divine - was born at
Aldersgate, in London Dec. 21, 1552. The 1st book licensed to him
was on 28 May 1578. In 1578 he brought out with a new preface,
'A Booke of Christian Prayers' commonly known as 'Queen Elizabeth's
Prayer Book' Printed by his father who is believed to have been
the compiler of the 1st ed. of 1569 from which the 2nd differs
so materially as to form a new book. The charming woodcut
border + illust. are finer + more varied in the 1578 ed.
The last book printed by him was in 1580. He only pritned
4 or 5 books + parted with his apprentice in 1581.
Assigns of Richard Day 1585-1603.
1569 - cannot compare in delicacy with the work of Tory, on which
it was largely based, but Updike's condemnation of it as a
"rough, tasteless, black letter vol." seems a little harsh. p. 92