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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
for the publication of a book. Though he published several books in the interval, he did not seek a second licence until March 16, 1603, when he obtained one for a work appropriately called *The Anatomie of Sinne*. He faced the risk of punishment for his defiance of the law, and, when a penalty was exacted, paid it without demur.¹
His two undertakings in 1599.
No extant book which bears Jaggard’s name came out during the three years 1596, 1597, and 1598. In 1599 two volumes appeared with the intimation on the title-page that they were ‘printed for W. Jaggard’.² In neither case was the Stationers’ Company made officially cognizant of Jaggard’s operations. Of these two volumes, one was Thomas Hill’s *School of Skil*, an astronomical treatise in black letter, which was stated to be ‘printed for W. Jaggard’ at the press of T. Judson. The other was *The Passionate Pilgrim*, the imprint of which declared that it was ‘Printed for W. Jaggard, and are to be sold by W. Leake at the Greyhound in Paules Churchyard’.
William Leake’s association with the venture guaranteed it against official censure. He was a prominent and respected member of the Stationers’ Company. He had joined the livery the year before, and subsequently became assistant (1604) and Master (1618). Before associating himself with Jaggard’s venture of *The Passionate Pilgrim*, he had given notable proof of interest in Shakespeare’s work. On June 25, 1596, he had acquired the copyright of *Venus and Adonis* from John
William Leake’s co-operation.
¹ On October 23, 1600, William Jaggard and a kindred spirit, Ralph Blower, were fined by the Stationers’ Company 6s. 8d. for ‘printing without license and contrary to order a little booke of Sir Anthony Sherley’s Travels’, and all ‘the said books so printed’ were forfeited by the Company. The offenders were threatened with imprisonment in default of compliance with the judgement, but Jaggard cheerfully paid his share of the fine on Sept. 7, 1601, and purged his offence. Cf. *Arber*, ii. 831, 833.
² The preposition ‘for’ in the imprint of Elizabethan books usually precedes the name of the proprietor of the copyright.
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