19. What was the situation in England all through the Middle Ages with regard to labor troubles? 20. What social change took place in the nineteenth century, and what was the result? 21. How did the English deal with the problem of the regulation of printing? 22. What can you say about English craft guilds? 23. What were the reasons for the organization of the Company of Stationers? 24. What was the form of organization of the Company? 25. What was the Star Chamber? 26. What were the powers and the duties of the Company? 27. What followed the organization of the Company? 28. Give the substance of the edict of 1586. 29. What did the Company do in the execution of this edict? 30. What difficulties, other than those caused by the edicts, troubled the printers? 31. Tell the story of John Wolfe. 32. What was the result of the reduction in the number of offices, and what was done about it? 33. Describe English printing apprenticeship at this period. 34. What were the relations between author, printer, and bookseller? 35. Tell the story of John Day. 36. Mention other printers of this time, and give some distinguishing fact about each. 37. What tendency appears in English printing after Day, and why? 38. How did printing fare under James I; under Charles I? 39. Give the substance of the edict of 1637. 40. What legislation was enacted to protect English printing? 41. What happened when Parliament got the upper hand, and why? 42. How did printing fare under Cromwell? 43. Tell the story of the attempt to incorporate the Company of Printers. 44. Sketch the course of government regulation from 1662 to 1694. 45. Tell about Roycroft and his work. 46. Tell about the four type-founders of this time. 47. Describe the rise to prominence of the Oxford Press. 48. What three special changes took place in the eighteenth century? 49. Tell the story of the invention of stereotyping. 50. Tell how the publishers became the principal power in the book business. 51. Give the substance of the copyright act of 1709. 52. What was the effect of this act on the author and on the manufacture of books? 53. Tell the story of William Caslon. 54. Tell the story of Samuel Richardson. 55. Tell the story of the life of Baskerville. 56. Tell about Baskerville as a type-founder. 57. Tell about Baskerville’s press; his methods; the reason for his lack of success. 58. Was Baskerville’s work a failure, and why? 59. Tell the story of Charles Whittingham, the elder. 60. Tell the story of Charles Whittingham, the younger. 61. Tell the story of Pickering and his alliance with Whittingham. 62. Tell the story of Morris and the Kelmscott Press. 63. Describe Morris’s ideas and tell about his work. 64. What was the effect of Morris’s work?