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- LUCRECE 29
Harrison, apparently a grandson of the original holder, and the printer of the edition of 1600. (He was Master of the Stationers’ Company in 1638.) This transaction, which involved the transfer to ‘Master Harison’ of over thirty books, is thus entered in the Stationers’ Registers (iv. 237):—
29 Junij 1630.
Assigned over vnto him [i. e. Master Harison] by master Francis Williams and order of a full Court all his estate right title and Interest in the Copies hereafter menconed
viz¹. . . . . xijs vj¹./
Lucrece.
Master Harison produced an edition in 1632, which was printed by R. B. [i. e. Richard Bishop]¹, and he retained the property until his death twenty-three years later. His widow, Martha Harrison, sold it on March 15, 1653, to yet another John Harison (or Harrison), apparently a nephew of her late husband, and the third of the name to hold the property. The third John Harrison was in partnership with William Gilbertson of the Bible in Giltspur Street, who had lately acquired the copyright of *Venus and Adonis*. Under some arrangement with Harrison, Gilbertson produced in 1655, with another coadjutor, John Stafford, the latest edition of *Lucrece* which appeared in the seventeenth century.
master printer from March 1, 1613, and a livery-man of the Stationers’ Company from Feb. 4, 1635, was one of the most prosperous printers of his day.
¹ The initials R. B. alone appear on the title-page, but the full name of Richard Bishop figures as printer for Harrison in the same year of a new edition of John White’s Short Catechism. No other member of the Stationers’ Company, who was a printer, bore the same initials. Robert Bird, who acquired the copyright of *Pericles* in 1630, was a publisher or bookseller only. John Norton printed for him an edition of the play in that year. But it is puzzling to note that the printer’s device with the motto ‘In Domino Confido,’ which appears on the last page of the 1632 *Lucrece*, is found on the title-page of the 1630 *Pericles*.
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