{"id":"01KG8B0SV9W3T9282QN4XVTHZ4","cid":"bafkreigewmumwxnudhlsnmworbtd6xmsb64uotwepk7yv6miw7dxlbdcdm","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreicmh3qrharkdfcfn6hbnbg2asx36fn6dco4tvcgdtsvzk27m5ecte","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0046.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521477-pncx6esi6h9","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0046.jpg","page_number":46,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":569180,"text":"Vautrollier,\ncareer before\n1593-\n40\nVENUS\nAND\nADONIS\nwas soon to be closely studied by Shakespeare, and was greatly\nField and to influence his work. Field's relations with Vautrollier\nbecame very intimate. Vautrollier was a man of wide sym-\npathies and independent views, which somewhat prejudiced\nhis career in London. Threats of prosecution for printing\na heretical book by the sceptic Giordano Bruno led him to\nretire temporarily (i ;84-d) to Edinburgh, where he established\na press, and was patronized by the Scottish king, James VI.\nIn his absence from England his printing business in London\nwas carried on by his wife Jacquenetta with Field's aid, but\nhe resumed control of it before his death in July, 15-87.\nField's Field was admitted a freeman of the Stationers' Company\non February 6^ lySj, and subsequently filled all the great\noffices of the society.' On the threshold of his career he\nseems to have married Vautrollier's widow Jacquenetta.^\nIn the autumn of 15\" 8 8, he was carrying on business with\nher in the house in Blackfriars near Ludgate, which had\nbeen occupied by Vautrollier. He adopted his old master's\ndevice of an anchor in an oval with the motto, j4?ichora SpeL\nThe earliest work, on the title-page of which Field's\nname figures, was a pamphlet describing the defeat of the\nSpanish Armada called T^he Copie of a Letter sent out of England\nto John 'Bernardino Mendo^a. It appeared in October, i5'8 8,\nand was described as < printed by I[acquenetta] Vautrollier\nfor R. Field '. Next year Field both printed and published\nsingle-handed several books of importance, including Putten-\nham's The Arte of English Poesie'^\"^ and u4 summarie and true\n' He was recognized as a master printer in i<r5)<), was admitted to the\nLively, July, i5'98, was warden in i()05' and was master in \\6iq) and \\6i\\.\n^ Cf. Plomer's Wills of Etiglish Trinters and Stationers (Biblogr. Soc),\np. 27 (Vautrollier's will) and p. 50 (Field's will).\n^ The licence for Puttenham's book, originally granted to Thomas Orwin\nin November, 1588, was transferred by him to Richard Field * dwelling in\nthe black-Friers, neere Ludgate', April 7, i5'89.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.477Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1632},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4X0DM39SSQK43XXG34R","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.217Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:24.839Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}