25 Facts About Edward Allde

Edward Allde was an English printer in London during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.

Edward Allde was responsible for a number of significant texts in English Renaissance drama, including some of the early editions of plays by William Shakespeare.

Edward Allde was part of a family of professional printers: his father John, his mother Margaret, his widow Elizabeth, and two of her children all worked in the trade.

The elder Allde published the first edition of Ulpian Fulwell's Like Will to Like in 1568; the younger Allde published the second edition in 1587.

At first, Edward ran his late father's business with the help of his mother; it was located at the Long Shop in the Poultry, adjoining St Mildred's Church.

In 1593, Edward moved into his own establishment, at the sign of the Gilded Cup in Fore Street, Cripplegate, near the Barbican; Margaret Allde continued the Long Shop operation on her own, at least until 1601.

John Allde had maintained a flourishing business, with as many as eight apprentices simultaneously; Anthony Munday had been one of them for a time, and Edward Allde served his own apprenticeship under his father.

Edward Allde succeeded in business, keeping his two presses busy with chapbooks, playbooks, and more serious books too.

Edward Allde produced ballads, songbooks, and jestbooks, and was one of the "original innovators of the merry book trade;" in the years when the Stationer's Company limited ballad printing to only five of its members, Allde was one of the five.

Toward the end of his career, in the early 1620s, Edward Allde was involved in the syndicate that produced the first English newspapers, along with Nathaniel Butter, Thomas Archer, Nicholas Bourne, William Sheffard and Bartholomew Downes.

John Edward Allde spent time in the Poultry Compter in 1568 for printing a pro-Catholic text.

Edward Allde printed key texts of the original Shakespearean bibliography:.

Edward Allde shared the printing of Romeo and Juliet Q1 with colleague John Danter, apparently with the goal of a speedy result.

Danter printed sheets A through D, while Allde printed sheets E through K Only Danter is credited on the volume's title page.

Beyond the limits of the Shakespearean canon, Edward Allde printed important first editions of plays:.

Edward Allde maintained a long-term professional relationship with bookseller White, and printed a number of dramatic and non-dramatic works for him over the course of their careers.

Edward Allde worked on a few of the pamphlets of Samuel Rowlands, including The Knave of Clubs and the evocatively-titled Look to It for I'll Stab Ye.

Allde printed topical works like Henry Petowe's Elizabetha Quasi Vivens: Eliza's Funeral, an item in the mourning literature for Queen Elizabeth I For Cuthbert Burby, Allde printed the sixth volume of The Mirror of Knighthood, the vast, and vastly popular, chivalric romance that was one of the greatest best-sellers of the age.

Edward Allde printed the Thomas Ravenscroft's A Briefe Discourse, a music theory treatise.

Yet again like most printers of his era, Edward Allde did a certain amount of publishing himself; the editions of Cambyses, Like Will to Like, and The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses mentioned above are examples.

Edward Allde printed the third edition of the anonymous comedy Wily Beguiled for Thomas Knight.

Elizabeth Edward Allde published and printed the second edition of Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay and the third edition of Arden of Faversham, one of the plays of the Shakespeare Apocrypha.

Edward Allde published and printed a collection of the works of Sallust, and Thomas Chaffinger's The Just Man's Memorial.

Edward Allde was one of the four printers who worked on the 1630 collected edition of the works of John Taylor the Water Poet for publisher James Boler.

In 1633, the Edward Allde firm passed to Richard Oulton, Elizabeth's son-in-law.