{"id":"01KG8BDKW47GX9VES1YR5YT4GX","cid":"bafkreicdott46yibhdw6nvgnjwtzxfglalztfsvt2di444ppdw4kwk4q3u","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreigxlwfgbma2j6iwcg4pmvhzprp6aigyqx43yi4alicpxbi4hgkejq","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0295.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806914075-e5gnelen1cu","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0295.jpg","page_number":295,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":570618,"text":"THE PASSIONATE\nPILGRIM\n^\nfour\nand\ntwenty\nyears\nearlier.\nThe\npublisher\nhad\njust\nthen\nbegun\nbusiness\nfor\nhimself,\nand\nhis\nprospects were\nstill\ninsecure.\nEvery\ndetail\nin\nthe\nhistory of the enterprise pertinently\nillustrates\nthe\nunscrupulous methods which\nthe customs\nof\nthe trade\nencouraged\nthe Elizabethan\npublisher\nto pursue.\nBut\nit is\nerroneous\nto\nassume\nthat\nit\nwas\nreckoned\nby\nanyextensive public\nopinion\nof the\nday\npersonally\ndiscreditable\nin\nJaggard\nto\npublish\nunder\nShakespeare's\nname work\nfor\nwhich\nthe poet was\nnot responsible.\nIn\nall\nthat\nhe\ndid\nJaggard\nwas\njustified\nby\nprecedent,\nand he\nsecured\nthe\ncountenance and\nactive\nco-operation\nof an\neminent\nmemberof the\nStationers'\nCompany,\nwhose\ncharacter\nwas deemed\nirreproachable.\nWilliam Jaggard, who was Shakespeare's junior by some Jaggard's\nfive years, having been born in 1^6^^ enjoyed a good prelimi- ^^^'>'\"'\"^'\nnary training as a publisher. His fither, John Jaggard, citizen\nand barber-surgeon of London, died in William's boyhood,\nand he and a brother, John, both apprenticed themselves on the\nsame day, September 29, i ^84, to two highly reputable printers\nand publishers, each of whom was in a large way of business and\nowned as many as three presses.' Henry Denham, William's\nmaster, twice Under- Warden of the Stationers' Company, lived\nat the sign of the Star in Paternoster Row. John's master\nwas the veteran Richard Tottel, twice Master of the Stationers'\nCompany, who won lasting fame at the outset of his career by\nhis production in 15-5-7 of that first anthology of English\nverse which is commonly known as TottePs Miscellany.^ Tottel's\n^\nFor\nthe details\nand\ndates\nin\nthe\ncareer\nof\nJaggard\nand\nhis\nbrother\nI\namindebted\nto\nMr.\nArber's Transcript of the Stationers' Registers.\n^\nThe\nfull title\nof this\nvolume,\nof\nwhich The\nPassionate Fllgrlm\nwas\na\ndescendant,\nran\n:\n—\n'\nSonges\nand\nSoneties^\nwritten by\nthe\nryght honorable Lorde\nHenry Howard,\nlate\nEarle\nof\nSurrey, and other. Apud Richardum\nTottel,ifT?-'\nThe book reached an eighth edition in 1587.B","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T21:01:54.075Z","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":"2026-01-30T21:02:22.084Z","ts":"2026-01-30T21:02:29.477Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}