 For one example, his 1609 edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets (see below) was printed by George Eld, and sold by William Aspley and William Wright.Thorpe had a cryptic relationship with Aspley; together the two men entered plays into the Stationers' Register – "The Malcontent" on 5 July 1604, and "Eastward Ho" on 4 September 1605 – yet when the plays were published soon after, they were issued by Aspley alone.Thorpe remained in business until at least 1624, when he and Blount transferred the copyright of Marlowe's "Hero and Leander" to fellow stationer Simon Vicars.