{"id":"01KG8BDBVAN9156209V49KEK6P","cid":"bafkreiaaqqbpwnw7mozohd53acvxjo6uoviaztf34dzd3o5o5fnwkkwin4","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreihlaoclgmviq3gcfny23sdumk4ypmcv4q6nydcsivfzjb3vy7h6aq","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0299.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806914076-eqh84d3wf6f","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0299.jpg","page_number":299,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":546088,"text":"THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 13\nHarrison, who had bought it from its first holder, Richard\nField, three years before. Leake retained his property in\nShakespeare's earliest printed book for nearly twenty-one\nyears. His first edition of Venus and Adonis appeared in\n15-99, i^ the same year as the first edition oi The Passionate\nPilgrim^ and on the title-pages of both volumes figured his\naddress — * the Greyhound in Paules Churchyard.' ' Thus in i ^9 9,\na year after Leake was clothed with the livery of his Company,\ntwo newly printed volumes, which were identified with Shake-\nspeare's name and fame, adorned for the first time the shelves\nof his shop in St. Paul's Churchyard.\nThe unnamed printer of T^he Passionate Pilgrim was doubt- Peter Short,\nless Peter Short, who had printed for Jaggard the only volume P\"\"*^^'-\nof verse which he is known to have undertaken previously,\nviz. Hun/lies J^ecreations^ in 1S9S' Short also printed for\nJaggard his first book. Dove's Sermon^ in i5'94. Short's print-\ning office was at 'the Star on Bread Street Hill, near to the\nend of Old Fish St.' ; his business was a large one and many\nvolumes of verse came from his press. Not only had he\nprinted recently the work of the poets Spenser and Daniel, but\nhe had produced for Leake the two editions of Venus and\nAdonis which appeared respectively in if 99 and 1(^02, as well\nas Harrison's edition of Shakespeare's Lucrece in iy98. More\nthan one song-book, with the literary contents of which The\nPassionate Pilgrim had close affinity, also came from his press —\none in the same year as Jaggard's miscellany, viz. ' Ayres for four\nVoyces composed by Michael Cavendish '.^\nThe\ntypographical quality of the\nfirst\nedition\nof\nJaggard's\n' These premises enjoyed a traditional fame. They had been long in\nJohn Harrison's occupation, until at the close of 1^96 Leake took them over j\nhe remained there till 16^02.\n- Cf. Feter Shorty Printer ^ and his Marks^ by Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S.\n(Bibliograph. Soc), 1898.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T21:01:54.076Z","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":"2026-01-30T21:02:13.866Z","ts":"2026-01-30T21:02:28.807Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}