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- LUCRECE 27
Entred [to Master Harrison, senior] for his copie under
thand of master Cawood Warden, a booke intituled the
Ravyshement of Lucrece viᵈ C.
Harrison employed Richard Field, Shakespeare’s fellow towns-
man, to print the work, and Field’s device of an anchor,
hanging in an oval frame with the motto *Anchora Spei*, is
prominently displayed on the title-page of the original edition.
Harrison retained the copyright of the poem for nearly
twenty years, until March 1, 1612, and published at least four
editions—in 1594, 1598, 1600, 1607. But only the first was
printed by Field. Peter Short printed that of 1598; Harrison’s
son, also named John, printed that of 1600, and Nicholas Okes
that of 1607. All the printers were men of position in the
trade. Okes was on intimate terms with Field, who had acted
as his surety when he was admitted a freeman of the Stationers’
Company on December 5, 1603, while Thomas Heywood,
the author, in his *Apology for Actors* which Okes printed for
him in 1612, addressed him as his ‘approved good friend’,
and commended his care and industry—compliments which
were rare in the intercourse of printer and author.
On March 1, 1612, Harrison parted with the copyright of
*Lucrece* and of three other of his publications of a different
class to a stationer of comparatively minor reputation, Roger
Jackson, whose shop over against the Great Conduit in Fleet
Street bore the sign of the White Hart.¹ The transaction
is thus entered in the Stationers’ Company’s Registers (iii.
542):—
¹ Roger Jackson, son of Martin Jackson, of Burnholme, Yorkshire, had
been apprenticed to Ralph Newbery, a well-known stationer, on July 5, 1591
(Arber, ii. 175). He had been admitted a freeman of the Stationers’ Company
on August 10, 1599, and acquired his first copyright (Greene’s *Guest Hunting*
*Cenoy Catchers*) on September 3, 1602 (Arber, iii. 216). His first apprentice,
Richard, son of Thomas Gosson, joined him April 23, 1604.
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