assigned to Middleton, Eld attributed it to "W. S." Eld published Northward Ho, by Thomas Dekker and John Webster, in 1607. 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 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 the inscription "to be sold by John Hodgets" – another demonstration of the printer/publisher's need for a retail outlet for his products. Grimeston 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 the Netherlands (A. Islip and G. Eld, 1609), The General History of Spain (A. Islip and G. Eld, 1612), The General History of the Magnificent State of Venice (G. Eld and W. Stansby, 1612), and A General History of France (G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1624). References English printers Publishers (people) from London Stationers (people) 17th-century deaths from plague (disease) 17th-century English businesspeople 16th-century births 1624 deaths