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- THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 11
His first publications.
carried on one of the largest printing businesses in London, and produced and published many imposing folios besides the First Folio of Shakespeare’s Plays. In 1611 he became printer to the City of London; in 1613 he purchased from his partner Roberts the right of printing ‘the players’ bills’ or theatrical programmes; and in 1618 he issued ‘A catologve of such English Bookes as lately haue bene and now are in Printing for Publication’, which he promised to continue half-yearly. The reputation of his press for typographical accuracy was never high, but he violently denounced any authors who were bold enough to complain of its defects.
The year 1599, during which Jaggard produced *The Passionate Pilgrim*, was long anterior to the prosperous period of his life, which opened in 1605 with the control of Roberts’ press. Before 1599 he would seem to have published not more than two or three books. The first extant book, on the title-page of which his name figures, was a sermon preached by John Dove at St. Paul’s Cross, Nov. 3, 1594, which came out before the close of that year. The title-page stated that it was printed ‘by P. S. [i. e. Peter Short] for W. Jaggard’. Next year there was issued a new edition of the pedestrian verse of William Hunnis called *Hunnies Recreations*. The imprint was the same, with the addition of Jaggard’s address in Fleet Street.
The Stationers’ Company granted no licence for the publication of either of these books, and in fact Jaggard obtained only one licence from the Company before the end of the sixteenth century. On January 23, 1597–8, he was duly authorized by the Company to publish an embroidery pattern book, called *The true perfection of Cuttworkes*, of which no copy has been met with.
Jaggard was no slave of legal formalities. It was the exception rather than the rule for him to seek a licence
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