{"id":"01KG8B0SZSF01XS402Z81VP7G5","cid":"bafkreid3rqadi5ynqsohnyht7cgbms4sqozt3ctbnud45a34tk3fytrvle","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreihcan452byqtl6ayuclwhcistacpxeuzateij2dvi623xxeffnm54","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0050.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521478-1zw192qxg65","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0050.jpg","page_number":50,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":547590,"text":"44\nVENUS\nAND\nADONIS\nhad his second poem, Lucrecc^ ready for the press. Contrary\nto expectation, the copyright of the Lucrece was acquired\non June 9, not by Field, but by Harrison. The arrange-\nment, whatever its cause, was a perfectly friendly one \\\nField accepted a commission from Harrison to print in\n15-94 the original edition of Lucrece^ of which Harrison\nhad just acquired the copyright, as well as a third edition\nin I f 9(5 of Venus and Jdonis^ the copyright of which Harrison\nhad bought from Field two years previously. In the latter\ncase the imprint ran :— ' Imprinted at London by R. F. for\nlohn Harison.'\nThat issue of 1 5-9(5 brought to a close the association alike\nof Field and Harrison with the publishing of Shakespeare's\nwritings. The three earliest editions of Venus and Adonis and\nthe first edition of Lucrece came from the press of the poet's\nfellow townsman, and there the connexion of his press with\nShakespeare's work ended.\nField's The title-pages of the four issues of Shakespeare's poems\nwhich Field printed are all distinguished by a large printer's\ndevice, which Field had borrowed of his master Vautrollier.\nIt consists of a suspended anchor, of which the ring is grasped\nby a right hand issuing from clouds. Two leafy boughs\ncross each other about the anchor, and the whole is enclosed\nin a heavily scrolled and ornamented frame of oval shape,\nwithin the top of which hang capital letters forming the\nmotto Anchora Spei. Vautrollier possessed at least four forms\nof this device, and Field seems to have employed as many.\nThose appearing on the title-pages of the Venus and Adonis of\n15-93 ^^^ If 94 ^r^ from one plate; that on the Lucrece of\n1 5-94 is from another of somewhat different design. Both are\nof good workmanship. The discrepancies, although slight, are\nwell marked ; the chief is that the intertwined boughs cross\neach other behind the shaft of the anchor in the first two\ndevice.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.478Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.361Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:24.923Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}