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- VENUS
AND
ADONIS
43
Field.
He
had
been
in
continuous occupation
of the
shop
known
as
the
White
Greyhound
in
St.
Paul's
Churchyard
since
Iff
9.
Field
was
already
in close
business
relations
with
him
when
he
acquired
the
copyright
of
Venus
and
Jdonis,^
It
was
in
conformity
with
a
recognized
practice
that the
imprint
on
the title-page
of the
first
edition
ran
:
—
<
Imprinted by
Richard
Field
and
are to
be
sold
at
the
signe
of the
White
Greyhound
in Paules
Churchyard.' Next
year
a
second
edition
came
out
in
precisely the
same
conditions
from
Field's
press.
The
unaltered
title-page
announced
that copies
were
to
be
sold
at
Harrison's shop.
The
copyright
of Fenus
and Jdonis,
of
which
Field
was
The
first
the
first
owner, has
a
somewhat
complicated
history.
The
[he"co'-^
details
illustrate the
confused
methods
of
Elizabethan
"g^f-
publishing.
Shakespeare
may
be
absolved
from
responsi-
bility for
the
involutions
of
the
story. A
new
chapter
opens
after
the
appearance of the
second
edition early
in
1^94.
A
£qw
months
later,
on
June
27 of
that year,
Field
John
Harri-
found
it
convenient
to
make
over the
copyright
in the
poem oTne'rw
to
the
publisher
Harrison.
The
transfer
is
thus
recorded
in
m, 1/94-
the Stationers'
Company's
Register
^
—
{"9^^^'
[if 94] 2f lunij
Assigned
over
unto
him
[i.e.
Master Harrison,
Senior]
from Richard
Field
in
open Court holden
this
Day
a
book
called
Venus and Adonis
vj**.
The
which was before entred to Richard Field
18
Aprilis
If
93.
With
this act
of self-abnegation on
Field's
part another
has
to be
associated.
In
this
same
month
of June, Shakespeare' Field
had been
employed
by Harrison
to print in
15-90
an elaborate
treatise
on mechanical inventions by Cyprian Lucar, and in 1^91 had
at
Harrison's expense produced
two
works by foreign authors
:
—
Simon Vcrepaeus's
De
epistoits
Latine conscribendh^
and an English translation
of
Vasco Figueiro's
The Spaniards Monarchic and
Leagt^ers Olygarchle,
' Arber's
Transcript ^
ii.
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