{"id":"01KG8B0T2XRNDY4DRVVJG14Z2Y","cid":"bafkreiamz4zakd77x6vps3cbbhn52ocpl34mqhjam3da66ec7jxt55v5ga","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreia3y7nltajew3nrqaw3i7bmqk7zhcgy6xlshq54ctgj5ex65wrpiu","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0052.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521479-w2vaoxgrvb","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0052.jpg","page_number":52,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":593800,"text":"46 VENUS AND ADONIS\nby the said master Harrison's consent. A booke called. Venus\nand Adonis vjd.\nLeake fills an important place in the bibliographical\nhistory of Shakespeare's first poem, although Shakespeare did\nnot presumably concern himself with his intervention. He\ncontrolled the publication for a period approaching twenty\nyears — for the rest of Shakespeare's lifetime and for ten\nmonths after the poet's death. He issued three editions. The\nfirst which seems to have come out under his auspices was\ndated i ^99, and was apparently printed for him by Peter Short.\nAnother followed about 1600. In July, 1602, he moved to\nnew premises in St. Paul's Churchyard — to a building bearing\nthe sign of the Holy Ghost — and before the end of the\nyear he produced a new edition of the poem, on the title-\npage of which he gave his new address. He now seems to\nhave employed Humphry Lownes to print the book. Other\neditions may have come from his press, but no copies of\nthem survive.* On February id, idi7, he transferred his\nchief copyrights, including f^e/ms and Adonis^ to < Master\nWilliam [William] Barrett ', and there the third chapter in the\nBarrett, publishing history of the poem closed. Leake's two successors\nowner, Feb. enjoycd brief reigns. Barrett, the first of them, at once\nMarch 8^\" reprinted the volume in i<5i7, but there his interest in it\n1620. ended. Three years later, on March 8, 1^20, he transferred\nfifth owner,' V^nus and Adonts and the other property that he had acquired\nMarch 8, q^ Lcakc to Tohu Parker. The title-pasre of one edition of\ni6io-May\n^ ....\ni\nT\n7, \\6z6, 1620 bears Parker's mitials (J. P.), and then on May 7, \\6i6^\nhnd anr'' ^^ Hiade the book over to John Haviland and John Wright\n^ In i6'07, Robert Raworth, a printer, who purchased Adam Islip's press\nthe year before, was charged before the Star Chamber with printing Venus and\nAdonis^ which was ' another's copy '. Raworth was found guilty, and his\nprinting oflfice was for a time forcibly closed, by way of punishment. It is\nuncertain whether Raworth succeeded in circulating his piratical reprint. No\ncopy has been met with (cf. Arbcr's Transcript^ iii. 701, 703-4).","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.479Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.461Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:24.945Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}