Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Allde, Edward
ALLDE, ALDEE, or ALDEY, EDWARD (fl. 1583–1634), printer, son of the John Allde mentioned below, was made free of the Company of Stationers by patrimony 18 Feb, 1583–4, and resided for some time with his father near St. Mildred's Church, Poultry. In 1560 he was fined 5s. for printing a ballad without authority. He left the Poultry in 1590 for the sign of the Gilded Cup, without Cripplegate, and appears to have been more of a printer than his father, whose business was chiefly selling books. He was chosen to go to ‘my Lord Maiours dynner’ in 1611 (Arber, Transcript, iii. 695). Entries in the registers occur under his name down to 1623. On 29 June 1624 ‘Master Aldee’ acquired the stock of ‘Mistris White,’ consisting of twenty-one works, among which may be mentioned ‘Arden of Feversham’ (1592), Baxter's ‘Sir Philip Sydney's Ourania’ (1606), Greene's ‘Orpharion,’ &c. (ib. iv. 120). There is one more entry in respect to Master Aldee on 5 May 1627. After his death, which is supposed to have taken place about 1634, his widow (who could not be admitted to the company) carried on the business in the name of a son by a former husband (ib. iii. 701–2),.
[Ames's Typ. Antiq. ed. Herbert, ii. 1238.]