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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
place of business was at the sign of the Hand and Star in Fleet Street, within Temple Bar, between the two Temple gates, and there his young apprentice helped him in 1587 to prepare an eighth edition of his popular anthology.
In due course the brothers were admitted freemen of the Company, William on December 6, 1591, and John next year, on August 7, 1592. They were thus fully qualified to play their part in the history of English publishing, when Shakespeare was winning his earliest laurels.
John Jaggard, successor to Richard Tottel.
John’s career only indirectly concerns us here. He became assistant to his old master Tottel, and in 1597, four years after Tottel’s death, was established in Tottel’s well-seasoned house of business, the Hand and Star in Fleet Street. Though he did not acquire Tottel’s printing-presses, and never printed for himself, he rapidly made a name as a publisher and bookseller. Among his publications were two editions of Fairfax’s great translation of Tasso’s *Gerusalemme Liberata*, and the third, fourth, and fifth editions of Bacon’s *Essays* (1606, 1612, 1613). He entered the livery of his Company July 3, 1602, and acted as Warden in 1619 and 1620.
William Jaggard’s early struggle, 1594–1605.
William, whose rise was less rapid, was a rougher-tempered man than his brother, and never obtained office in his Company. He began business on his own account in 1594, acquiring premises, which have no ascertainable history, at the east end of the churchyard at St. Dunstan’s-in-the-West, in Fleet Street. There, for eleven years, he published books on a limited scale. He owned no printing-press, and his operations were restricted. But in 1605 his position completely changed. He acquired a preponderating interest, which he soon converted into a sole interest, in the old-established printing business of James Roberts, in the Barbican. Thenceforth his fortunes were not in doubt. Between 1605 and 1623, the year of his death, he
His prosperous years, 1605–23.
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