 One of Okes's earliest jobs was the printing of the fifth edition of Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece" (1607) for the bookseller John Harrison (the fourth octavo edition, O4; often called, inaccurately, Q5).In the following year, 1608, Okes printed the famous and crucial first quarto of "King Lear" for Nathaniel Butter.Q1 of "Lear" was the first play (of many) printed by Okes; it has been argued that some of the peculiarities in that intensely studied volume resulted from the inexperience of Okes and his compositors with works of drama.