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- VENUS AND
ADONIS
47
jointly.
The
official
entry
in
the
Stationers'
Company's
John
Register
runs
thus
:
—
Wright,
■» r • • Sixth owners,
7"
MaiJ
1616
Mzy7,i6i6
Assigned over unto them [i.e. to John Haviland and John "'^^° ^'^'
Wright] by master Parker and by consent of master Islip
warden A Booke called Venus and Adonis vjd.
John
Haviland
was
a
printer,
not
a
bookseller,
and
he
alone actively
controlled
the
newly-purchased copyright.
At
least
two
editions
—
those
of 16^0
and
16^6
—
came
from
his
press,
and
the
bookseller
whom
he
employed
to
distribute
the
copies
was
<
Francis
Coules
in
the
Old
Bailey without
Newgate
'.
On
September
4,
1(^38,
the
title
of
Haviland and
his
partner
Wright
to
the
poem
was
confirmed
anew
by
the
officers
of
the
Stationers'
Company's
Registers.
After
1
64.0,
Edward
the
copyright passed
to
Edward
Wright.
He
had
begun
life
YJ£^ll
August
d,
1(^04, as
apprentice
to
Haviland's
partner,
John
o^ner,
Wright,
doubtless
his
uncle.
Edward Wright
did not
adhere
ipn^i^)"
to
the
volume
long.
On
April
4,
idj-j-,
he assigned
it
to
one
^^^J-
William
Gilbertson,
who
acquired
at
the
same time
a
share in
William
Lucrece,
Gilbertson was the last
publisher
to
claim
any
9'^^^"'*^">
exclusive
property
in Venus and
Adonis.
It
is
likely
enough
owner,
that
both he
and
his
immediate
predecessor
Edward Wright
^f^\
'^'
issued
new
editions,
but no
copies survive
to
confirm
the
suggestion
;
and
the
two
men
have
left
small
impression
on
the
history
of the
book.
There
were thus eight
formal
transfers of the
copyrightof the
poem
with due
payment
of
fees in
the course of
sixty-
two years
—
a
proof
that the
volume
retained
throughout
that
long period
a
marketable
value in the sight of publishers.
The authorized
London
editions
numbered
at least
eleven
;
a
serious
attempt was
made
to infringe the copyright
in
London
in
i<^o7,
and there was
a
surreptitious
issue at
Edin-
burgh in
1
527. In
idjf
a rough reprint was
issued
by
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