Shakespeare
Edward Allde printed key texts of the original Shakespearean bibliography:
- Part of the first quarto, the "bad quarto," of Romeo and Juliet (1597), for publisher Cuthbert Burby.
- The third quarto of Titus Andronicus (1611), for Edward White.
- The second edition of Robert Chester's Love's Martyr (1611), which contained Shakespeare's The Phoenix and the Turtle, for Matthew Lownes. (Lownes re-titled the book The Annuals of Great Britain.)
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, however, is credited on the volume's title page. Bibliographers determined Allde's participation in Romeo and Juliet in part by tracking damaged type used in Allde's E-K sheets and in three books that he printed in the 1597–9 period.
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