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- VENUS
AND
ADONIS
45-
editions o^
Venus
and Adonis^
and
m
front of
the shaft
in
the
first
edition of
Lucrece
j
the inner
beading
of
the
oval
frames
also
differs.^
The
device assumes quite
a
new
form
in
the
third
edition of the
Venus
of
lyp^:
the
pattern
is
simplified
and
far
more roughly
engraved/
The ownership of the copyright of Shakespeare's Venus William
and Adonis underwent a third change in the author's lifetime owntr'ofthe
in the summer of i79<^, just two years to a day after <^opy"ght,
Harrison acquired it. Harrison, who was advanced in age, {"^^^Peb.
appears to have reorganized his business in that year. He ^^' '^'7.
moved from his old premises, the White Greyhound in
St. Paul's Churchyard, to a house, on which he bestowed
the same sign, in Paternoster Row, and he made over his
former house, with some important items of his stock there,
to another prominent stationer, William Leake. On June 2f,
ir9(^, the transaction, so far as it bore on Shakespeare's Venus
and Adonis^ was duly entered in the Stationers' Company's
Register thus :—
[lypc^] 2y lunij.
Assigned
ouer
vnto
him
[i.e.
William Leake]
for his
copie
from
master harrison
thelder, in full
Court holden
this
day.
"
The
Uicrece
pattern
of
i^p^
is
more
frequently met
with than
the
Venus
of
IT5)5-+-
The
Venus pattern
of i^c??-^
appears
in Field's issue in
i')Vj6
of
Sir
John
Harington's
A
neiv
discourse
of
a
stale
subject called
<
The
Metamorphosis
ofAjax
'.
Of
the
Lucrece
pattern,
a
rough
cast
figures in Vautroilier's edition
oi
Essaies of
a
Fre7zt}se^
1^84;
a
fine
impression was
set
by
Field
before
Puttenham's
Arte
of
English
Poesie^
1585,,
and
the
first
edition
of
the
second
volume
of
Spenser's Faerie
^eene, which
Field printed in
i^^6
for
William
Ponsonby.
The
general
scheme
of the
device
was
a
crude adaptation
of
the
famous Aldine
anchor, entwined with
a
dolphin. Antoine
Tardif,
a well-
known
sixteenth-century printer of
Lyons, fashioned
a
new
device of
an
anchor with a dolphin within a heavily
ornamented
scroll
and bearing
the
punning
motto,
Festina
tarde. The arrangement
of
Tardif
's
device and motto
resembles that adopted by
Vautrollier
(cf.
L. C.
Silvestre's
Marques
Typo-
graphiques^ Paris, iS^^-^J;,
No.
505,).
Vautrollier's
and
Field's
motto
is
common.
Spenser, in his
Shepheards Calender
(1^75)),
adopted
as
<
Colin's
emblemc
' the Italian
words Anchora Speme
(i.
c.
Hope
the anchor).
^ See facsimile on p.
6^0.
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