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- 46 VENUS AND ADONIS
by the said master Harrison's consent. A booke called. Venus
and Adonis vjd.
Leake fills an important place in the bibliographical
history of Shakespeare's first poem, although Shakespeare did
not presumably concern himself with his intervention. He
controlled the publication for a period approaching twenty
years — for the rest of Shakespeare's lifetime and for ten
months after the poet's death. He issued three editions. The
first which seems to have come out under his auspices was
dated i ^99, and was apparently printed for him by Peter Short.
Another followed about 1600. In July, 1602, he moved to
new premises in St. Paul's Churchyard — to a building bearing
the sign of the Holy Ghost — and before the end of the
year he produced a new edition of the poem, on the title-
page of which he gave his new address. He now seems to
have employed Humphry Lownes to print the book. Other
editions may have come from his press, but no copies of
them survive.* On February id, idi7, he transferred his
chief copyrights, including f^e/ms and Adonis^ to < Master
William [William] Barrett ', and there the third chapter in the
Barrett, publishing history of the poem closed. Leake's two successors
owner, Feb. enjoycd brief reigns. Barrett, the first of them, at once
March 8^" reprinted the volume in i<5i7, but there his interest in it
1620. ended. Three years later, on March 8, 1^20, he transferred
fifth owner,' V^nus and Adonts and the other property that he had acquired
March 8, q^ Lcakc to Tohu Parker. The title-pasre of one edition of
i6io-May
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7, \6z6, 1620 bears Parker's mitials (J. P.), and then on May 7, \6i6^
hnd anr'' ^^ Hiade the book over to John Haviland and John Wright
^ In i6'07, Robert Raworth, a printer, who purchased Adam Islip's press
the year before, was charged before the Star Chamber with printing Venus and
Adonis^ which was ' another's copy '. Raworth was found guilty, and his
printing oflfice was for a time forcibly closed, by way of punishment. It is
uncertain whether Raworth succeeded in circulating his piratical reprint. No
copy has been met with (cf. Arbcr's Transcript^ iii. 701, 703-4).
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