Edward Blount
Edward Blount | |
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Born | 1562 |
Died | 1632 (aged 69–70) |
Occupation | Publisher |
Edward Blount (or Blunt) (1562–1632) was a London publisher of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline eras, noted for his publication, in conjunction with William and Isaac Jaggard, of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays in 1623.
He was baptised in London on 31 January 1562;
Among the most important of his publications are
Though best remembered for the First Folio, Blount also published works by Miguel de Cervantes, Ben Jonson, Samuel Daniel, William Camden, José de Acosta and other important authors. Blount has been described as "a genuine lover of literature, with discriminating and generous taste."[3] Beyond the Folio, Blount had other minor connections with the Shakespearean canon. In 1601 he published Robert Chester's Love's Martyr, the volume that contained The Phoenix and the Turtle; he entered both Antony and Cleopatra and Pericles, Prince of Tyre in the Stationers' Register in 1608, though he published neither. Blount was also a close friend and professional colleague of Thomas Thorpe, the publisher of Shakespeare's sonnets. He was dead by October 1632.[1]
Notes
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2686. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Sheavyn, p. 67.
References
- Sheavyn, Phoebe. The Literary Profession in the Elizabethan Age. Manchester, University of Manchester Press, 1909.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Blount, Edward". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 87. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the