Richard Field (printer)

For the theologian of the same name, see Richard Field (theologian).

Title page of the first quarto (1593) of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, printed by Richard Field, adorned with his emblem the Anchora Spei, "anchor of hope."

Richard Field (or Feild) (1561–1624) was a printer and publisher in Elizabethan London, best known for his close association with the poems of William Shakespeare, with whom he grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon.[1]

  1. ^ Kirwood, A. E. M. "Richard Field, Printer, 1589–1624." The Library 12 (1931), pp. 1–35.