Thomas Heyes

Thomas Heyes was the publisher-bookseller who published the first quarto edition of William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, in London, in 1600.

Entred for his copie vnder the handes of bothe the wardens, a booke of the Marchaunt of Venyce or otherwise called the Jewe of Venyce Prouided that yt bee not prynted by the said James Robertes or anye other whatsoeuer without lycense first had from the Right honorable the lord Chamberlen.

[6] Proving this copyright was probably prompted by the publication of the False Folio edition by William Jaggard earlier that year.

Lawrence published the third quarto edition of Merchant of Venice in 1637, to be sold at his shop in Fleetbridge.

[11] Thomas published a number of other works, including England’s Parnassus by Robert Allot (in 1600),[12] in partnership with Nicholas Ling and Cuthbert Burby.