Post Mortem
The exact date of Burby's death is not known, though it fell between August 24 and September 26 in 1607. In 1609 Burby's widow assigned his copyrights, mainly of theological works, to the publisher's former apprentice Nicholas Bourne, who printed no dramatic works in his career but was a successful publisher of news who worked for many years in partnership with Nathaniel Butter.
The overall quality of Burby's work as a publisher has been variously evaluated. Commentators have complained about the quality of the printing in some of Burby's texts; while Burby was not a printer, it can be asserted that he should have employed better craftsmen. It has even been argued that the printing in the "bad quarto" of Romeo and Juliet, Danter's 1597 Q1, is superior to the printing of the Burby/Creede Q2, the "good" quarto of 1599 — that Q2 "is on the whole less carefully printed than Q1."
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