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- VENUS AND ADONIS 47
jointly. The official entry in the Stationers’ Company’s Register runs thus:—
> 7° Maij 1626
Assigned over unto them [i.e. to John Haviland and John Wright] by master Parker and by consent of master Islip warden A Booke called Venus and Adonis vjd.
John Haviland was a printer, not a bookseller, and he alone actively controlled the newly-purchased copyright. At least two editions—those of 1630 and 1636—came from his press, and the bookseller whom he employed to distribute the copies was ‘Francis Coules in the Old Bailey without Newgate’. On September 4, 1638, the title of Haviland and his partner Wright to the poem was confirmed anew by the officers of the Stationers’ Company’s Registers. After 1640, the copyright passed to Edward Wright. He had begun life August 6, 1604, as apprentice to Haviland’s partner, John Wright, doubtless his uncle. Edward Wright did not adhere to the volume long. On April 4, 1655, he assigned it to one William Gilbertson, who acquired at the same time a share in *Lucrece*. Gilbertson was the last publisher to claim any exclusive property in *Venus and Adonis*. It is likely enough that both he and his immediate predecessor Edward Wright issued new editions, but no copies survive to confirm the suggestion; and the two men have left small impression on the history of the book.
There were thus eight formal transfers of the copyright of the poem with due payment of fees in the course of sixty-two years—a proof that the volume retained throughout that long period a marketable value in the sight of publishers. The authorized London editions numbered at least eleven; a serious attempt was made to infringe the copyright in London in 1607, and there was a surreptitious issue at Edinburgh in 1627. In 1675 a rough reprint was issued by
John Wright, sixth owners, May 7, 1626—1640 (?).
Edward Wright, seventh owner, 1640 (?)—April 4, 1655.
William Gilbertson, eighth owner, April 4, 1655.
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