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- lo THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
place of business was at the sign of the Hand and Star in
Fleet Street, within Temple Bar, between the two Temple
gates, and there his young apprentice helped him in 15-87
to prepare an eighth edition of his popular anthology.
In due course the brothers were admitted freemen of
the Company, William on December 6, lypi, and John
next year, on August 7, 1^92. They were thus fully qualified
to play their part in the history of English publishing, when
Shakespeare was winning his earliest laurels.
tqj^j^
John's
career
only
indirectly
concerns
us
here.
He
jaggardjsuc- became assistant to his old master Trttel, and in i5'9 7, four
Richard
ycars
after
TottePs
death, was established
in Tottel's
well-
Tottei.
seasoned house
of business, the
Hand
and
Star
in
Fleet
Street.
Though he did not acquire TottePs printing-presses, and
never printed for himself, he rapidly made a name as a
publisher and bookseller. Among his publications were two
editions of Fairfax's great translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme
Liherata^ and the third, fourth, and fifth editions of Bacon's
Essays (i(5o<5, idi2, i<^i3). He entered the livery of his
Company
July
3,
i(5o2,
and
acted
as
Warden
in
1(^19
and
1610.
William William, whose rise was less rapid, was a rougher-tempered
jaggard
s ^-^.^^^
^j^^^^
]^
jg
brother, and never
obtained
office
in his
Com
pany.early Strug- ' _ ^ •'
gle, 1J94- He began business on his own account in i5'94, acquiring
°^' premises, which have no ascertainable history, at the east end
of the churchyard at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, in Fleet Street.
There, for eleven years, he published books on a limited scale.
He owned no printing-press, and his operations were restricted.
His But in idoy his position completely changed. He acquired
yearr'°"^ a preponderating interest, which he soon converted into a sole
t6oj-2 3. interest, in the old-established printing business of James
Roberts, in the Barbican. Thenceforth his fortunes were not
in doubt. Between 160^ and i<^2 3, the year of his death, he
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