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- THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 13
Harrison, who had bought it from its first holder, Richard
Field, three years before. Leake retained his property in
Shakespeare's earliest printed book for nearly twenty-one
years. His first edition of Venus and Adonis appeared in
15-99, i^ the same year as the first edition oi The Passionate
Pilgrim^ and on the title-pages of both volumes figured his
address — * the Greyhound in Paules Churchyard.' ' Thus in i ^9 9,
a year after Leake was clothed with the livery of his Company,
two newly printed volumes, which were identified with Shake-
speare's name and fame, adorned for the first time the shelves
of his shop in St. Paul's Churchyard.
The unnamed printer of T^he Passionate Pilgrim was doubt- Peter Short,
less Peter Short, who had printed for Jaggard the only volume P""*^^'-
of verse which he is known to have undertaken previously,
viz. Hun/lies J^ecreations^ in 1S9S' Short also printed for
Jaggard his first book. Dove's Sermon^ in i5'94. Short's print-
ing office was at 'the Star on Bread Street Hill, near to the
end of Old Fish St.' ; his business was a large one and many
volumes of verse came from his press. Not only had he
printed recently the work of the poets Spenser and Daniel, but
he had produced for Leake the two editions of Venus and
Adonis which appeared respectively in if 99 and 1(^02, as well
as Harrison's edition of Shakespeare's Lucrece in iy98. More
than one song-book, with the literary contents of which The
Passionate Pilgrim had close affinity, also came from his press —
one in the same year as Jaggard's miscellany, viz. ' Ayres for four
Voyces composed by Michael Cavendish '.^
The
typographical quality of the
first
edition
of
Jaggard's
' These premises enjoyed a traditional fame. They had been long in
John Harrison's occupation, until at the close of 1^96 Leake took them over j
he remained there till 16^02.
- Cf. Feter Shorty Printer ^ and his Marks^ by Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S.
(Bibliograph. Soc), 1898.
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