 His career advanced in 1606, in connection with the printing establishment of George and Lionel Snowden; Lionel left the firm and Okes took the man's place as George Snowden's partner (29 January 1606).Snowden, in turn, left the business on 13 April 1607, when Okes bought him out.Okes continued to use the Snowden's characteristic device, a winged horse above a caduceus (as on the title page of "Lear," Q1) – though he later used an ornament of Jupiter riding an eagle between two oak trees.