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BLOUNT (or BLUNT), EDWARD (b. 1565?)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 87 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLOUNT (or See also:BLUNT), See also:EDWARD (b. 1565?)  , the printer, in See also:conjunction with See also:Isaac Jaggard, of Mr See also:William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories and Tragedies . Published according to the true Originall Copies (1623), usually known as the first See also:folio of See also:Shakespeare . It was produced under the direction of See also:John Heming (d . 163o) and See also:Henry Condell (d . 1627), both of whom had been Shakespeare's colleagues at the Globe See also:theatre, but as See also:Blount combined the functions of printer and editor on other occasions, it is See also:fair to conjecture that he to some extent edited the first folio . The Stationers' See also:Register states that he was the son of See also:Ralph Blount or See also:Blunt, See also:merchant tailor of See also:London, and apprenticed himself in 1578 for ten years to William See also:Ponsonby, a stationer . He became a See also:freeman of the Stationers' See also:Company in 1588 . Among the most important of his publications are Giovanni See also:Florio's See also:Italian-See also:English See also:dictionary and his See also:translation of See also:Montaigne, See also:Marlowe's See also:Hero and Leander, and the Sixe See also:Court Comedies of John See also:Lyly . He himself translated Ars Aulica, or the Courtier's Arte (1607) from the Italian of Lorenzo Ducci, and See also:Christian Policie (1632) from the See also:Spanish of Juan de See also:Santa Maria .

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