{"id":"01KG8B0SYGYEGPRWZH094ZVTAH","cid":"bafkreidt2cfyvtocw2ba44odyt5pfp6vy6gj464qbx3qiygdzqesmaqqba","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreibldytwi6dkw2bwks2sc2nvnfdz5pgk7sbvsve5yv7bssba26we4u","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0045.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521476-7vd48li2a1g","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0045.jpg","page_number":45,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":592166,"text":"VENUS\nAND\nADONIS\nS9IV\nThe first chapter in the history of the publication of The publica-\ntion o'\"\npoem.\nShakespeare's\nFemis and\nAdonis\nthrows\nan\ninteresting sidelight\n\"°\"\n°\n^\n^\non Shakespeare's biography. It brings the poet temporarily\ninto close association with a fellow townsman of Stratford-on-\nAvon, Richard Field, who seems to have been born in the The printer\nsame year as himself. The fathers of the two men had been p/eid!*^\nfriends and neighbours at Stratford-on-Avon. Richard Field's\nfather, Henry Field, was a fairly prosperous tanner. He\ndied in 1^92, when his neighbour John Shakespeare, the\npoet's father, attested in accordance with custom < a trew and\nperfecte inventory ' of his goods and chattels. Meanwhile\nRichard Field had left Stratford to follow the trade of a\nprinter in the metropolis of London. On September 29, 1^79,\nRichard at the usual age of fifteen was apprenticed to a\nLondon printer and stationer of good repute, George\nBishop.' But it was arranged five weeks later that he should\nserve the first six years of his apprenticeship with a singularly\ninteresting member of the fraternity, Thomas VautroUier, a\nFrenchman who had originally come to London as a Hugue-\nnot refugee, and had established his position by publishing\nNorth's translation of Plutarch's Lives in ij'79, a book which\nHis song was vvorthie merrit {Shakspeare hee)\nSung the faire blossome, thou the withered treej\nLaurell is due to him, his art and wit\nHath purchast it. Cypres thy brow will fit.\nIt is perhaps worth noting that copies of Barksted's Mirrha and H. A.'s Scourge\nof Venus were bound up with copies oi Venus and Adonis {\\6i6) and Lucrece\n(i6'i5), and of some other early poetical tracts, in a volume, in the library ofThomas Pearson, which fetched £i zs. cd. at the Pearson sale of 1788.\n' Besides Richard Field and his brother Jasper, who was apprenticed to\nRichard in 15\" 91, two other of Shakespeare's Stratford-on-Avon contemporaries\nwere apprenticed to London printers in the poet's early life, viz. :— Roger, son\nof John Lock, a Stratford glover, on Sept. 2, 1577, to Richard Pickering,\ncitizen and stationer of London, and Allan, son of a Stratford tailor, Thomas\nOrrian, to Thomas Fowkes, stationer, on March i, 1585-.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.476Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.320Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:25.353Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}