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- THE PASSIONATE
PILGRIM
^
four
and
twenty
years
earlier.
The
publisher
had
just
then
begun
business
for
himself,
and
his
prospects were
still
insecure.
Every
detail
in
the
history of the enterprise pertinently
illustrates
the
unscrupulous methods which
the customs
of
the trade
encouraged
the Elizabethan
publisher
to pursue.
But
it is
erroneous
to
assume
that
it
was
reckoned
by
anyextensive public
opinion
of the
day
personally
discreditable
in
Jaggard
to
publish
under
Shakespeare's
name work
for
which
the poet was
not responsible.
In
all
that
he
did
Jaggard
was
justified
by
precedent,
and he
secured
the
countenance and
active
co-operation
of an
eminent
memberof the
Stationers'
Company,
whose
character
was deemed
irreproachable.
William Jaggard, who was Shakespeare's junior by some Jaggard's
five years, having been born in 1^6^^ enjoyed a good prelimi- ^^^'>'"'"^'
nary training as a publisher. His fither, John Jaggard, citizen
and barber-surgeon of London, died in William's boyhood,
and he and a brother, John, both apprenticed themselves on the
same day, September 29, i ^84, to two highly reputable printers
and publishers, each of whom was in a large way of business and
owned as many as three presses.' Henry Denham, William's
master, twice Under- Warden of the Stationers' Company, lived
at the sign of the Star in Paternoster Row. John's master
was the veteran Richard Tottel, twice Master of the Stationers'
Company, who won lasting fame at the outset of his career by
his production in 15-5-7 of that first anthology of English
verse which is commonly known as TottePs Miscellany.^ Tottel's
^
For
the details
and
dates
in
the
career
of
Jaggard
and
his
brother
I
amindebted
to
Mr.
Arber's Transcript of the Stationers' Registers.
^
The
full title
of this
volume,
of
which The
Passionate Fllgrlm
was
a
descendant,
ran
:
ā
'
Songes
and
Soneties^
written by
the
ryght honorable Lorde
Henry Howard,
late
Earle
of
Surrey, and other. Apud Richardum
Tottel,ifT?-'
The book reached an eighth edition in 1587.B
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