George Eld was a London printer of the Jacobean era, who produced important works of English Renaissance drama and literature, including key texts by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Middleton.
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George Eld established himself in his own printing business in 1604, at the sign of the White Horse in Fleet Lane, by marrying the widow of not one but two master printers.
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George Eld's shop featured two or perhaps three presses, and four compositors – a substantial operation for the time.
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George Eld was primarily a printer during his career, working on specific projects for specific booksellers.
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George Eld worked regularly for Thomas Thorpe; the two produced more than twenty titles together.
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Thorpe and George Eld were involved in two "dubious publishing enterprises" – one, a failed attempt to print a work to which they did not have the rights, and the other, a successful such attempt of some work by Thomas Coryat.
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In 1612, Thorpe and George Eld issued a work of modern Shakespearean controversy, the Funeral Elegy that Donald Foster proposed as a work by Shakespeare, without convincing most scholars and critics.
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George Eld printed the 1609 second quarto of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus for John Wright.
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George Eld printed first editions of a range of other texts in Jacobean drama:.
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George Eld published the types of religious books that were so common in his era, like Bishop Gervase Babington's Works, Containing Comfortable Notes on the Five Books of Moses.
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