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- THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM n
carried on one of the largest printing businesses in London,
and produced and published many imposing folios besides the
First Folio of Shakespeare's Plays. In 1611 he became printer
to the City of London; in 161^ he purchased from his
partner Roberts the right of printing <■the players' bills ' or
theatrical programmes; and in idi8 he issued 'A catologve of
such English Bookes as lately haue bene and now are in Printing
for Publication ', which he promised to continue half-yearly.
The reputation of his press for typographical accuracy was
never high, but he violently denounced any authors who were
bold enough to complain of its defects.
The year 15-99, during which Jaggard produced T/;^ His first
Passionate Pilgrim^ was long anterior to the prosperous period P"'''^^^"^"^'
of his life, which opened in i6oy with the control of Roberts'
press. Before 1J99 he would seem to have published not
more than two or three books. The first extant book, on the
title-page of which his name figures, was a sermon preached by
John Dove at St. Paul's Cross, Nov. 3, 1^94, which came out
before the close of that year. The title-page stated that it
was printed ' by P. S. [i. e. Peter Short] for W. Jaggard '. Next
year there was issued a new edition of the pedestrian verse of
William Hunnis called Hunnies ^creations. The imprint was
the same, with the addition of Jaggard 's address in Fleet Street.
The Stationers' Company granted no licence for the
publication of either of these books, and in fact Jaggard
obtained only one licence from the Company before the end
of the sixteenth century. On January 23, 15-97-8, he was
duly authorized by the Company to publish an embroidery
pattern book, called The true perfection of Cuttrvorkes^ of
which no copy has been met with.
Jaggard was no slave of legal formalities. It was the
exception rather than the rule for him to seek a licenceB 2
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