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VENUS AND ADONIS
Field and Vautrollier.
was soon to be closely studied by Shakespeare, and was greatly to influence his work. Field’s relations with Vautrollier became very intimate. Vautrollier was a man of wide sympathies and independent views, which somewhat prejudiced his career in London. Threats of prosecution for printing a heretical book by the sceptic Giordano Bruno led him to retire temporarily (1584–6) to Edinburgh, where he established a press, and was patronized by the Scottish king, James VI. In his absence from England his printing business in London was carried on by his wife Jacquenetta with Field’s aid, but he resumed control of it before his death in July, 1587.
Field’s career before 1593.
Field was admitted a freeman of the Stationers’ Company on February 6, 1587, and subsequently filled all the great offices of the society.¹ On the threshold of his career he seems to have married Vautrollier’s widow Jacquenetta.² In the autumn of 1588, he was carrying on business with her in the house in Blackfriars near Ludgate, which had been occupied by Vautrollier. He adopted his old master’s device of an anchor in an oval with the motto, *Anchora Spei*.
The earliest work, on the title-page of which Field’s name figures, was a pamphlet describing the defeat of the Spanish Armada called *The Copie of a Letter sent out of England to John Bernardino Mendoza*. It appeared in October, 1588, and was described as ‘printed by l[acquenetta] Vautrollier for R. Field’. Next year Field both printed and published single-handed several books of importance, including Puttenham’s *The Arte of English Poesie*³, and *A summarie and true*
¹ He was recognized as a master printer in 1596, was admitted to the Livery, July, 1598, was warden in 1605 and was master in 1619 and 1622.
² Cf. Plomer’s *Wills of English Printers and Stationers* (Bibliogr. Soc.), p. 27 (Vautrollier’s will) and p. 50 (Field’s will).
³ The licence for Puttenham’s book, originally granted to Thomas Orwin in November, 1588, was transferred by him to Richard Field ‘dwelling in the black-Friers, neere Ludgate’, April 7, 1589.
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