{"id":"01KG6S5HRBCZ3T053G811SA6FS","cid":"bafkreianytfvqwkxwdrz6sugjdsvsto3jx5543t7xpehz6qqbqhtqad2bu","type":"section","properties":{"description":"# His ownership of the manuscript of Marlowe’s Lucan.\n\n## Overview\nThis section, titled \"His ownership of the manuscript of Marlowe’s Lucan.\", is a textual document from January 30, 2026. It is part of a larger collection, \"PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53\", and was extracted from the file \"pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt\".\n\n## Context\nThis section is situated within the \"FACSIMILE OF THE EDITION OF 1609\" frontmatter. It follows the section titled \"Thorpe’s early life.\" and precedes the section titled \"Character of his business.\". The text discusses the historical context of publishing and bookselling, specifically mentioning figures like Edward Blount and Thomas Thorpe, and their involvement with literary works, including Marlowe's *Lucan* and *Hero and Leander*, and Shakespeare's sonnets.\n\n## Contents\nThe text details Thomas Thorpe's acquisition and publication of literary works. It highlights his ownership of the manuscript of Marlowe's *Lucan* and his dedicatory address to Edward Blount in 1600. The section also touches upon Blount's role as a proprietor of Marlowe's *Hero and Leander* and Thorpe's own publishing activities, including pamphlets and other volumes. It notes that Thorpe's publishing operations ceased around 1624, and he is identified with a Thomas Thorpe who received an alms-room in Oxfordshire in 1635, suggesting he may have ended his days in poverty. The text also briefly mentions the publication of Shakespeare's sonnets, involving the printer George Eld and booksellers John Wright and William Aspley.","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T06:26:10.986Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"His ownership of the manuscript of Marlowe’s Lucan.","end_line":9273,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:08.806Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"His ownership of the manuscript of Marlowe’s Lucan.","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":9261,"text":"His ownership of the manuscript of Marlowe’s *Lucan*.\nHis dedicatory address to Edward Blount in 1600.\n\n¹ Blount had already achieved a modest success in the same capacity of procurer or picker-up of neglected ‘copy’. In 1598 he became proprietor of Marlowe’s unfinished and unpublished *Hero and Leander*, and found among better-equipped friends in the trade both a printer and a publisher for his treasure-trove.\n\n<!-- [Page 441](arke:01KG6QHPTCAN3X088BWDJD2JFK) -->\n30\nSONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE\n\nwhen he designated Marlowe ‘that pure elemental wit’, and a good deal of dry humour in offering to ‘his kind and true friend’, Blount, ‘some few instructions’ whereby he might accommodate himself to the unaccustomed rôle of patron. Thorpe gives a sarcastic description of a typical patron. ‘When I bring you the book,’ he advises Blount, ‘take physic and keep state. Assign me a time by your man to come again. . . . Censure scornfully enough and somewhat like a traveller. Commend nothing lest you discredit your (that which you would seem to have) judgment. . . . One special virtue in our patrons of these days I have promised myself you shall fit excellently, which is to give nothing.’ Finally Thorpe, adopting the conventional tone, challenges his patron’s love ‘both in this and, I hope, many more succeeding offices’.\n\nThree years later he was able to place his own name on the title-page of two humbler literary prizes—each an insignificant pamphlet on current events. Thenceforth for a dozen years his name reappeared annually on one, two, or three volumes. After 1614 his operations were few and far between, and they ceased altogether in 1624. He seems to have ended his days in poverty, and has been identified with the Thomas Thorpe who was granted an alms-room in the hospital of Ewelme, Oxfordshire, on December 3, 1635.\n","title":"His ownership of the manuscript of Marlowe’s Lucan."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S4GWQC7KPJ59BAYCY3HXR","peer_type":"frontmatter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S5HRBWPK4X3NMFCJHG48H","peer_type":"section","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6S5HREBSVPPTK7ESJG7QA1","peer_type":"section","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:08.971Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:26:11.215Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}