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VENUS
AND
ADONIS
known. The copyright became Field's exclusive property,
and he soon exercised his privilege of parting with it to
another trader. Interesting and instructive as is Field's pro-
fessional connexion with Shakespeare, it did not last long,
nor did it seriously influence the author's fortunes for good
or evil.
The grant to Field of the Stationers' Company's licence
to publish the volume was thus entered in the Company's
Register ' :—
[15-93]
xviij"
Aprilis
Entred
[to
Richard
Field]
for
his
copie
under
thandes
of
the
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
and master
Warden
Stirrop,
a
book
intituled
Venus
and
Adonis.
vj^*
It is probable that the publication followed within two or
three weeks. The first edition bears on the title-page the
date i5'93.'^ Copies were certainly on sale in June.
John Hani- The book was not sold to buyers by Field. The division
son
s
i
op.
^£
labour
between
the
producer and
the
distributor of
books
was
in
Shakespeare's
day
well
recognized.
Title-pages
as
a
rule
mentioned
the
name
of
both
producer and
distributor,
i.e.
of
both
printer
and publisher
(or
seller).
3
Field
entrusted
the
sale
and
distribution
of the
first
edition
of Venus and
Adonis
to
one
John
Harrison, whose shop
was
at
the
sign
of the
White Greyhound
in
St.
Paul's
Churchyard. JohnHarrison
was
a
wealthy
stationer
of
older
standing
than
' Arber's Transcript^ ii. ($'30.
" A note supplied by Isaac Reed to the Variorum edition of 1803 (ii. 152)
transcribes a manuscript memorandum bearing date June iz, 15" 5)3, which notes
the purchase for « xiid * of ' The Survey of Fraunce witla the Venus &
Adhonay of Mr. Shakspere '.
^ It was usually stated on the title-page, in cases where the printer owned
the copyright, that the work was « printed by A, and sold hy B', or ' at the shop
of B '. When^ as was common, the publisher (not the printer) owned the
copyright, the formula usually ran :— 'Printed by A (i.e. the printer) /or B
(i.e. the publisher).*
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