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VENUS
AND
ADONIS
41
discourse
of
Sir
Francis
Drakes
West
Indian
Voyage
(of
if8y-(J),
with
five
maps
of
very
high
interest.' At
the
same
time
he
acquired
Vautrollier's interest
in
many
interesting under-
takings, chief
of
which
was
North's
translation of
Plutarch
;
no
less
than
three editions
of that
work
were
printed
by
Field.''
Each
succeeding
year
Field's
business
career was
distinguished
by
some
new
venture of
importance.
In
i
f
9
1
he
produced
the
first
edition of
Sir
John
Harington's
translation
of
Ariosto's Orlando
Furioso^
a
handsome volume
liberallyillustrated
with
copper
plates,
of
which
a
second
edition
came
from
Field's
press
in
1607.
On
February
7,
1J92,
a
young
brother,
Jasper,
came
from
Stratford
to
serve
him
as
apprentice.
Field
was
thus
building up
a highly valuable
and
dig-
The
copy-
nified
connexion when
in
the
early spring of
15-93
he under-
'l^^lf^„i
took
the printing
of Shakespeare's Fenus and
Jdonis,
The
^'^^
early association
of
the
two
men
doubtless
led
Shakespeare
to
entrust to
Field
the
earliest
work
that
he
sent to
press.
But
despite
the
personal
relation
between
author and
printer,
there
is
nothing
to
show
that
Shakespeare took a
larger
control of the
publication than
was
customary
with contem-
porary authors.
It is
clear
that
Shakespeare
made
over
to
Field
all
rights
in
the
volume,
for
what
consideration
is
not
^ Field
printed
two
editions of
this
valuable
volume
in this
same
year
(^T^p)?
they are
distinguished from one another by
the presence
on
the
last
page
of
a
line of
errata
which
is
present
in
one and absent from
the
other.
Inboth editions
is
this
note
from
Field's
pen,
'The
reader
must understand,
that
this
Discourse was dedicated,
and intended
to
have bene
imprinted
somewhat
before the
comming
of
the
Spanish
FJeete
upon
our
coast of
England
: but
by
casualtie the
same was
forgotten and
slacked
for
a
time
of
some
better leasure.'
A
third edition of
the
book of
the
same
year
from
entirely different
type wasissued
subsequently by another
printer,
<
Roger Ward,
dwelling
upon
Lambard
Hill, neere olde Fish-Streete.'
^ In 1579
Vautrollier had published
the
first
edition
of
North's translation
in partnership with J.
Wright. The
first
edition
which
Field printed was
published jointly
by him and
Bonham Norton
in 1595-.
Field reprinted
it
with additions in 1^03,
when
he
and Thomas Wight
published it. In idizField reprinted
the
book and published
it
by
himself.
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