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Like most printers of his era, Edward Allde concentrated on printing, and left publishing decisions to the booksellers who commissioned printers to print books. Yet again like most printers of his era, Allde did a certain amount of publishing himself; the editions of
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Allde's widow
Elizabeth continued his business from his 1628 death until 1633. Since both Elizabeth and Edward Allde identified themselves on title pages as "E. A." or "E. Allde," 19th-century scholars sometimes confused their works.
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regimes were serious about censorship and control of the press.) Edward Allde ran into the same types of troubles in his career: he was fined for printing unregistered works and works to which he did not own the
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While his output was massive and significant, Allde's craftsmanship has not been rated highly by modern scholars, critics, and bibliographers. In the succinct verdict of one commentator, "his work was poor."
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mentioned above are examples. As with his printing, Allde published a range of works of various types: he issued the tracts and pamphlets that were so common in his period, like the third edition of
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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.
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485:(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,
512:(1614), a music theory treatise. Though his name appeared on a list of those granted monopolies to print set songs under James I, he seems to have used this privilege seldom.
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had been one of them for a time, and Edward Allde served his own apprenticeship under his father. Edward also succeeded in business, keeping his two presses busy with
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147:; the prison's stocks were outside the Allde shop door). In 1593, Edward moved into his own establishment, at the sign of the Gilded Cup in Fore Street,
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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
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February of that year, "by patrimony." The son continued his father's practices and publications; John Allde, for example, had issued the undated
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Printers who published usually had to arrange with booksellers for the retail distribution of their products. Allde's edition of
Richard Rich's
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In 1633, the Allde firm passed to
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It was not unusual, in this period, for stationers to run into difficulties with the authorities, both those of their
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and the higher civil administration; most were fined for infractions large and small, and some, like Butter, Archer,
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At first, Edward ran his late father's business with the help of his mother; it was located at the Long Shop in the
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of the same play, sometime after 1584. The elder Allde published the first edition of Ulpian
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in 1568; the younger Allde published the second edition in 1587.
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sometime before 1584; Edward Allde issued the undated
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328:(undated; 1594?), again for White;
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