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- LUCRECE 29
Harrison,
apparently
a
grandson
of
the
original
holder,
and
the
fomth
printer
of the
edition
of
1
600.
(He
was
Master
of
the
Stationers'
T^'^^'s^o-''
Company
in
i<^3
8.)
This
transaction,
which
involved
the
March
u,
transfer
to
'
Master
Harison
'
of over
thirty
books,
is thus
entered
in
the Stationers'
Registers
(iv.
237):
ā
29
Junij
16^0.
Assigned
over
vnto
him
[i. e.
Master Harison]
by
master
Francis
Williams and
order
of a
full
Court
all
his
estate
right
title
and
Interest
in
the
Copies
hereafter
menconed
.
xii/
^f./
viz* J J /
Lucrece.
Master Harison produced an edition in 1(^32, which was
printed by R. B. [i. e. Richard Bishop] \ and he retained the
property until his death twenty-three years later. His widow,
Martha Harrison, sold it on March if, 16 ^j^ to yet another
John Harison (or Harrison), apparently a nephew of her late John Hani-
husband, and the third of the name to hold the property, '^"j^ Jj^g
The third John Harrison was in partnership with William fifth holder.
Gilbertson of the Bible in Giltspur Street, who had lately
acquired the copyright of %)enus and Adonis. Under some
arrangement with Harrison, Gilbertson produced in K^ff,
with another coadjutor, John Stafford, the latest edition of
Lucrece which appeared in the seventeenth century.
master printer from March i, i(^i 3, and a livery-man of the Stationers' Company
from Feb. 4,, 16^3^', was one of the most prosperous printers of his day.
^ The initials R. B. alone appear on the title-page, but the full name of
Richard Bishop figures as printer for Harrison in the same year of a new
edition of John White's Short Catechism. No other member of the Stationers'
Company, who was a printer, bore the same initials. Robert Bird, who
acquired the copyright of Pericles in 1(^30, was a publisher or bookseller only.
John Norton printed for him an edition of the play in that year. But it is
puzzling to note that the printer's device with the motto 'In Domino Con-
fido,' which appears on the last page of the 16^31 Lucrece, is found on the title-page of the 1^30 Pericles,
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