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VENUS
AND
ADONIS
had his second poem, Lucrecc^ ready for the press. Contrary
to expectation, the copyright of the Lucrece was acquired
on June 9, not by Field, but by Harrison. The arrange-
ment, whatever its cause, was a perfectly friendly one \
Field accepted a commission from Harrison to print in
15-94 the original edition of Lucrece^ of which Harrison
had just acquired the copyright, as well as a third edition
in I f 9(5 of Venus and Jdonis^ the copyright of which Harrison
had bought from Field two years previously. In the latter
case the imprint ran :— ' Imprinted at London by R. F. for
lohn Harison.'
That issue of 1 5-9(5 brought to a close the association alike
of Field and Harrison with the publishing of Shakespeare's
writings. The three earliest editions of Venus and Adonis and
the first edition of Lucrece came from the press of the poet's
fellow townsman, and there the connexion of his press with
Shakespeare's work ended.
Field's The title-pages of the four issues of Shakespeare's poems
which Field printed are all distinguished by a large printer's
device, which Field had borrowed of his master Vautrollier.
It consists of a suspended anchor, of which the ring is grasped
by a right hand issuing from clouds. Two leafy boughs
cross each other about the anchor, and the whole is enclosed
in a heavily scrolled and ornamented frame of oval shape,
within the top of which hang capital letters forming the
motto Anchora Spei. Vautrollier possessed at least four forms
of this device, and Field seems to have employed as many.
Those appearing on the title-pages of the Venus and Adonis of
15-93 ^^^ If 94 ^r^ from one plate; that on the Lucrece of
1 5-94 is from another of somewhat different design. Both are
of good workmanship. The discrepancies, although slight, are
well marked ; the chief is that the intertwined boughs cross
each other behind the shaft of the anchor in the first two
device.
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