11 Facts About Thomas Pavier

1.

Thomas Pavier was a London publisher and bookseller of the early seventeenth century.

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2.

Thomas Pavier was able to set himself up in business that year; his shop was located at the sign of the Cat and Parrots, "over against Pope's Head Alley" in Cornhill.

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3.

Thomas Pavier followed this with many comparable works, with titles like The Lamentable Murthers of Sir John Fitz, A Cruel Murther in Worcestershire, The Fire in Shoreditch (1606), The Traitors' Downfall (1606), The Shepherd's Lamentation (1612), and The Burning of Tyverton (1612).

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4.

Thomas Pavier published ballads by Thomas Deloney and Samuel Rowlands.

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5.

Thomas Pavier's firm prospered and he eventually rose to be his guild's Junior Warden in 1622, but Thomas Pavier never abandoned ballads.

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6.

Thomas Pavier published several other plays, including the anonymous The Fair Maid of Bristow, and The First Part of Hieronimo, the anonymous "prequel" to Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy.

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7.

Thomas Pavier published the third quarto of A Looking Glass for London, by Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, in 1602, and the second quarto of the anonymous Jack Straw in 1604.

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8.

Thomas Pavier is best remembered for his editions of Shakespearean plays, and plays of the Shakespeare Apocrypha:.

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9.

Thomas Pavier was a business associate of Jaggard; but the real nature of his connection is debated by scholars.

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10.

When Thomas Pavier Millington transferred his rights to 2 and 3 Henry VI in 1602, Millington's copyright to Titus Andronicus was included in the deal.

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11.

Thomas Pavier, however, did not publish an edition of that play; the next, third edition of 1611 was issued by another bookseller, Edward White.

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