Edward Allde - Others

Others

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

• Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (undated; 1592?), for Edward White;
• Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris (undated; 1594?), again for White;
• George Peele's The Battle of Alcazar (1594), for Richard Bankworth;
• the first and second editions of Samuel Daniel's Cleopatra (1594, 1595) conjointly with printer James Roberts, for publisher Simon Waterson;
• the first two editions of the anonymous Soliman and Persida (both 1599), again for White;
• Thomas Dekker's Satiromastix (1602), yet again for White;
• Daniel's masque The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses (1604);
• Edward Sharpham's Cupid's Whirligig (1607), for Arthur Johnson;
• Thomas Middleton's The Phoenix (1607), for Arthur Johnson;
• the anonymous Every Woman in Her Humour (1609), for Thomas Archer;
• John Mason's The Turk (1610), for John Busby;
• Philip Massinger's The Bondman (1624), for John Harrison and Edward Blackmore;

— among others. (Allde's habit of issuing undated books has been a nuisance for modern scholars.) Allde naturally printed plays in other than first editions too — like the second edition of Norton and Sackville's Gorboduc (1590), for John Perrin, and a 1606 edition of Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Part 2 for Edward White. 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.

Of course, Allde also printed a wide variety of non-dramatic works of virtually all types then in circulation. He worked on a few of the pamphlets of Samuel Rowlands, including The Knave of Clubs (1611) and the evocatively-titled Look to It for I'll Stab Ye (1604). Allde printed topical works like Henry Petowe's Elizabetha Quasi Vivens: Eliza's Funeral (1603), an item in the mourning literature for Queen Elizabeth I. For Cuthbert Burby, Allde printed the sixth volume of The Mirror of Knighthood (1598), the vast, and vastly popular, chivalric romance that was one of the greatest best-sellers of the age. For John Tappe, he printed an early attempt at juvenile literature, Nicholas Breton's The Passionate Shepherd...With many excellent conceited Poems and pleasant Sonnets, fit for young heads to pass away idle hours (1604).