George Eld (died 1624) 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 .
14-1136: (Redirected from ELD ) [REDACTED] Look up eld or -eld in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Eld or ELD may refer to: People [ edit ] George Eld (died 1624), English printer George Eld (antiquary) (1791–1862), English antiquary Henry Eld (1814–1850), United States Navy officer and explorer Eld Martin (1886–1968), Canadian politician Technology [ edit ] ELD glass , extraordinary low-dispersion glass Electroluminescent display Electronic logging device Other [ edit ] Eld (album) , by Norwegian band Enslaved Economics of Land Degradation Initiative , promotes sustainable land use globally acronym for English Language Development, any teaching program for English Language Learners Fire (Elfgren and Strandberg novel) (Swedish: Eld ) Old age South Arkansas Regional Airport at Goodwin Field Union of People's Democracy ,
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56-543: 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 . Thorpe and Eld's most significant project was the 1609 first edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets . In 1612, Thorpe and Eld also 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. More Shakespeare: Eld printed
70-401: Is a good example – Eld also published work on his own authority. He was active in drama here too: Eld published beyond the confines of Jacobean drama as well, with works like John Healey 's 1610 translation of The City of God by St. Augustine . (That volume bore a dedication to William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke , signed by Thorpe.) In 1622 he issued a volume of satires by John Taylor
84-1104: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages eld [REDACTED] Look up eld or -eld in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Eld or ELD may refer to: People [ edit ] George Eld (died 1624), English printer George Eld (antiquary) (1791–1862), English antiquary Henry Eld (1814–1850), United States Navy officer and explorer Eld Martin (1886–1968), Canadian politician Technology [ edit ] ELD glass , extraordinary low-dispersion glass Electroluminescent display Electronic logging device Other [ edit ] Eld (album) , by Norwegian band Enslaved Economics of Land Degradation Initiative , promotes sustainable land use globally acronym for English Language Development, any teaching program for English Language Learners Fire (Elfgren and Strandberg novel) (Swedish: Eld ) Old age South Arkansas Regional Airport at Goodwin Field Union of People's Democracy ,
98-474: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages George Eld Eld was the son of a carpenter from Derbyshire . He served an eight-year apprenticeship to bookseller Robert Bolton, starting in 1592, and became a "freeman" (a full member) of the Stationers Company on 13 January 1600. He established himself in his own printing business in 1604, at
112-816: Is the "G. E." who printed William Camden 's Remains of a Greater Work (1605) for Simon Waterson, John Selden 's The Duello (1610) for John Helme, and Peter Gosselin's The State Mysteries of the Jesuits (1623) for Nicholas Bourne. Eld worked regularly for Thomas Thorpe ; the two produced more than twenty titles together. These included the first quartos of Jonson's Sejanus (1605), Volpone (1606), and The Masque of Blackness and The Masque of Beauty (in one volume, 1608). They also issued John Marston 's What You Will (1607), and George Chapman 's All Fools (1605) and The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608). Thorpe and Eld were also involved in two "dubious publishing enterprises" – one,
126-432: The 1609 quarto of Troilus and Cressida , for Richard Bonian and Henry Walley. Some critics have complained that the text in this volume is so poor that it should be classed as a " bad quarto ;" how much blame for this should fall on Eld, and how much is due to a faulty manuscript source that Eld had to work with, is open to question. (Eld's Sejanus text, in contrast, is excellently printed.) Eld has also been identified as
140-524: The Water Poet called The Water Cormorant His Complaint . He 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 (1615). And inevitably, Eld published and printed many now-obscure works by forgotten authors. The title page of his 1606 edition of Robert Pricket's Time's Anatomy bears
154-657: The inscription "to be sold by John Hodgets" – another demonstration of the printer/publisher's need for a retail outlet for his products. In 1607, Eld printed and published Edward Grimeston 's A General Inventory of the History of France, the book that provided Chapman source material for his tragedies on then-recent French history (including the Byron plays cited above). Eld followed this with several other large histories by Grimeston, partnering with fellow stationers Adam Islip, M. Flesher, and William Stansby : A General History of
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#1732787719570168-493: The printer of John Smethwick 's third quarto of Hamlet ( 1611 in literature ). Eld also printed the 1609 second quarto of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus for John Wright. And for William Aspley , he printed one of the most controversial plays of the period, Eastward Ho (three editions, 1605). Eld printed first editions of a range of other texts in Jacobean drama: Like some printers of his generation – Richard Field
182-569: The sign of the White Horse in Fleet Lane, by marrying the widow of not one but two master printers. His shop featured two or perhaps three presses, and four compositors – a substantial operation for the time. Eld entered into a partnership with Miles Fletcher in 1617; Fletcher took over the business after Eld died of plague in 1624. In Eld's historical era, most stationers concentrated on either printing or bookselling; and most publishing
196-431: Was done by the booksellers, who commissioned the printers to print their works. Eld was primarily a printer during his career, working on specific projects for specific booksellers. In his two-decade career, Eld printed a wide variety of works; when the printer is identified on title pages only with initials, researchers have used Eld's characteristic title-page device, "two volutes with foliage," for supporting evidence. He
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