Nicholas Ling

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Nicholas Ling's publisher's emblem was a "ling" (a species of cod) entwined with a honeysuckle .

Nicholas Ling (died 1607) was a London publisher, bookseller and editor. He has published a number of major Elizabethan works, including the first two quartos of Shakespeare 's Hamlet .

Ling was the son of John Lynge, a parchment maker from Norwich. He started his apprenticeship with Henry Bitteman in 1570 and became a member of the Stationer in 1578. He often works with other publishers. In 1597 he published a collection of quotations from Politeuphuia, or Wits Commonwealth . Editing of the poetry collection England's Helicon (1600) is also attributed to him. In 1603 he edited the first quarto of Shakespeare's Hamlet with John Trundell. This edition was printed by Valentine Simmes and is known as the so-called "bad quarto". A few months later James Roberts printed Hamlet's second quarto on his behalf. It is considered a Shakespeare authorized version of the play. Some authors suspect that John Trundell had a mangled version of Hamlet available and wanted to publish it quickly to meet demand. Roberts, on the other hand, owned the copyright for the piece, confirmed by the Stationers entry of 1602, and possibly arranged with Ling to print the better version, which gave Ling the opportunity to sell the piece twice.

Before his death, Ling sold 16 copyrights to John Smethwick , including several Shakespeare plays.

Others

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Camden Hotten: The history of signboards: from the earliest times to the present day. 1866, p. 474.
  2. ↑ Notes & Queries. 6th Series, V. VI (Nov. 11, 1882) p. 395.
  3. ↑ Nicholas Ling. In: OJ Campbell (Ed.): Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare. 1966, p. 462.
  4. ^ J. William Hebel: Nicholas Ling and England's Helicon. In: Library. S4-V (2), 1924, pp. 153-160.
  5. ^ GR Hibbard (ed.): Hamlet. Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 69-75.
  6. ^ A b Gerald D. Johnson: Nicholas Ling, Publisher 1580-1607. In: Studies in Bibliography. 38, 1985, pp. 203-214.
personal data
SURNAME Ling, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English publisher and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH England
DATE OF DEATH 1607
Place of death England