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- 44 VENUS AND ADONIS
had his second poem, *Lucrece*, ready for the press. Contrary to expectation, the copyright of the *Lucrece* was acquired on June 9, not by Field, but by Harrison. The arrangement, whatever its cause, was a perfectly friendly one; Field accepted a commission from Harrison to print in 1594 the original edition of *Lucrece*, of which Harrison had just acquired the copyright, as well as a third edition in 1596 of *Venus and Adonis*, the copyright of which Harrison had bought from Field two years previously. In the latter case the imprint ran:—«Imprinted at London by R. F. for Iohn Harison.»
That issue of 1596 brought to a close the association alike of Field and Harrison with the publishing of Shakespeare’s writings. The three earliest editions of *Venus and Adonis* and the first edition of *Lucrece* came from the press of the poet’s fellow townsman, and there the connexion of his press with Shakespeare’s work ended.
Field’s device.
The title-pages of the four issues of Shakespeare’s poems which Field printed are all distinguished by a large printer’s device, which Field had borrowed of his master Vautrollier. It consists of a suspended anchor, of which the ring is grasped by a right hand issuing from clouds. Two leafy boughs cross each other about the anchor, and the whole is enclosed in a heavily scrolled and ornamented frame of oval shape, within the top of which hang capital letters forming the motto *Anchora Spei*. Vautrollier possessed at least four forms of this device, and Field seems to have employed as many. Those appearing on the title-pages of the *Venus and Adonis* of 1593 and 1594 are from one plate; that on the *Lucrece* of 1594 is from another of somewhat different design. Both are of good workmanship. The discrepancies, although slight, are well marked; the chief is that the intertwined boughs cross each other behind the shaft of the anchor in the first two
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