Bob Barker & Rich Fields
Art Neuendorffer
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> In 1616 King James prose works were published with a brilliant
> but anonymous inscription engraved under his portrait on the
> title page. The anonymous inscription could only have been
> written by the author of the Shakespeare works:
> Crowns have their compass; length of days their date;
> Triumphs their tombs; felicity her fate.
> Of more than earth can earth make none partaker,
> But knowledge makes the King most like his maker.
> The inscription is repeated in various 17th century works,
> two with attributions to Shakespeare. In one work the
> lines are ascribed to *Mr. Robert Barker* . Barker was the
> printer of the 1616 edition but since he produced no other
> writing the inscription has produced no Barkerians for the
> Authorship Dispute.
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*Mr. Robert Barker* was born on December 12, 1923.
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http://www.cbs.com/daytime/price/about/bios/cast_bios_bbarker.shtml
<<Bob Barker is in his 31st year as host of CBS' The Price Is Right.
Not only is it America's highest rated daytime game show, it is also
the longest running game show in television history, surpassing
"What's My Line?" which ran for 18 seasons. On April 26, 2002,
Bob broke Johnny Carson's record for continuous performances on
the same network television show. Johnny retired from The Tonight
Show after 29 years, seven months and 21 days (10/1/62 - 5/22/92).
Bob bypassed that record on April 26 of 2005
- and is still going strong!
Another recent honor came when one of the most historic sites in
the history of television, Stage 33 at CBS Television City in
Los Angeles, was re-dedicated as the Bob Barker Studio in
ceremonies following the taping of the 5,000th episode of
The Price Is Right in March of 1998. Barker is the first performer
to whom CBS has ever dedicated a stage. Stage 33, opened in
November 1952, has been the home of such legendary television
series as The Jack Benny Show, The Red Skelton Show and
The Carol Burnett Show, as well as some of the network's most
memorable entertainment specials starring such performers as
Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. The Gary Moore Show, based in
New York, used it during its annual trip to the West Coast,
and The Ed Sullivan Show, used it for all of its West Coast
inserts. It was from Stage 33, in fact, that Elvis Presley
made his historic first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.>>
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TPIR announcers:
Don Pardo: 1956-1962
Johnny Gilbert: 1963-1964
Johnny Olsen: 1972-1985
Rod Roddy: 1986-2003
*Rich Fields* : Friday *April 23* 2004-Present
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PRINTer: *Rich Field* ...come on up!
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_The Late Mr. Shakespeare_ by Robert Nye
<<Under Richard Field's control, the Vautrollier printing
house became even more distinguished. Having published
Puttenham's important _The Art of English Poesie_,
it went on to publish Mr. Shakespeare's
_Venus and Adonis_ & _The Rape of Lucrece_.
1593 VENVS & ADONIS Imprinted BY RICHARD FIELD
1594 LUCRECE. Printed BY RICHARD FIELD
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<<Richard Field - like members of Shakespeare's troupe,
the Lord Chamberlain's Men - was a patient of Simon Forman.
On the 30th August 1596 a "Richard Field", described as being
37 (actually, he was born in 1561), visited the physician:
he had swallowed a gold coin which
"LIES in the pit of the mouth of the stomach".>>
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2Esdr 14:37 So I took the FIVE men, as he commanded me,
and we went into the *FIELD* , and remained there.
And the next day, behold, a voice called me, saying,
Esdras, open thy mouth, and drink that I give thee to drink.
Then opened I my mouth, and, behold,
he reached me a full CUP, which was full as it were
with water, but the colour of it was like fire.
And I took it, and drank: and when I had
drunk of it, my heart uttered UNDERSTANDing, and wisdom
grew in my breast, for my spirit strengthened my MEMORY:
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Rich Field: Master of the Stationers' Company in 1619 & again in 1622
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<<Born at Stratford-on-Avon on November 16th 1561, Richard Field is
presumed to have attended the local grammar school. In 1579 he came
to London [and served] the first 6 of the 7 years apprenticeship
with the great Huguenot printer, Thomas Vautrollier, a decision which
coloured his future career greatly. In 1587 he married Vautrollier's
widow, Jacqueline, acquiring a backlist of titles of considerable
quality, with an evident Protestant emphasis. He prospered: not
the RICHest of the London printer-booksellers, he was one of
the more successful by the time he died in December 1624.
His status is underlined by the fact that he served as
*Master of the Stationers' Company in 1619 and again in 1622*.
Field's father Henry died at Stratford-on-Avon in 1592;
John Shakespeare, the Bard's father, helped to value Henry's goods
& chattels on the 25th August. On the 18th April 1592 Field entered
Venus & Adonis on the Stationers' Register, which he printed in a
fine first edition. In 1594 he printed the first edition of The Rape
of Lucrece, which was published, however, by John Harrison the elder.
The last "hard fact" in our litany concerns _Love's Martyr,
or Rosalin's Complaint_ by Robert Chester; published in 1601,
it has appended poems by Marston, Chapman, Ben Jonson & "Ignoto"
- and Shakespeare's most mysterious poem,
The Phoenix and the Turtle. Sold by Edward Blount,
the frontispiece shows Field's printing device.
Strangely, Field was not called upon to print the Sonnets.>>
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The Apocrypha in the King James Bible
by T.L. Hubeart Jr. © 1999, 2003, 2004 by T.L. Hubeart Jr.
http://members.aol.com/kjvisbest/apocrypha.htm
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Another indicator of lack of care is a rather glaring blunder in the
title of "The Song of the Three Holy Children" mentioned above. This
title, meant to indicate at what point in the canonical book of Daniel
the apocryphal "book" was meant to be read, actually references the
wrong verse (the first verse of the apocryphal passage itself rather
than Daniel 3:23, after which is the true insertion point).20 Now it
is true that a certain amount of the gaffes in the first edition's
Apocrypha may stem from the printing house of Robert Barker, the
"Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty," who produced the
volume; the canonical books are certainly not free from errors of
the press in this edition. But features such as book titles can
only have been prepared by the translators, or by someone
working under their immediate supervision.
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"Elizabeth Weir" <elizabeth_w...@mail.com> wrote
> The pamphlet written by Bacon and Cecil went
> through three printings. The first was entitled:
>
> A True and Perfect Relation of the proceedings at
> the several Arraignments of the Late Most
> Barbarous Traitors. It had James I's ornament
> opposite the title page and was 'imprinted at
> London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings
> most Excel-lent Maiestie. Anno 1606.'
>
> It was given a more expansive title in the 2nd printing:
>
> A True and Perfect Relation of the Whole
> proceedings against the late most barbarous
> Traitors, GARNET a Jesuite, and his Confederats;
> Contayning sundry Speeches delivered by the Lords
> Commissioners at their Arraignments, for the
> better satisfaction of those that were hearers, as
> occasion was offered; The Earle of Northamptons
> Speech having bene enlarged upon those grounds
> which are set downe. And lastly all that passed at
> GARNETs Execution.'
>
> The second edition included Northumberland's 250-page
> speech that wasn't ready for the printer when the first
> edition was rushed to press which probably justifies
> one scholar calling it a 'small book.' The third edition
> had minor changes in the title but all three were
> published by the royal printer with James I's impresa.
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Art Neuendorffer