Short answers, pulled from the story.
Thomas Thorpe was born in 1569 to an innkeeper father in Barnet, Middlesex. He spent nine years working as an apprentice under Richard Watkins in a small shop before obtaining his publishing rights on the 2nd of May 1594.
Nineteenth-century critics labeled Thomas Thorpe predatory and irresponsible for releasing Shakespeare's Sonnets in 1609 without clear evidence of the poet's permission. Sidney Lee specifically called him predatory and irresponsible regarding this publication act.
Ben Jonson published multiple works through Thomas Thorpe starting in 1605 including the play Sejanus His Fall alongside George Chapman's All Fools. The pair continued their collaboration on Hymenaei in 1606, Volpone in 1607, and The Masque of Blackness and The Masque of Beauty in 1608.
The dedication page of the 1609 sonnets addresses a mysterious figure known as Mr. W.H. One possibility suggests the manuscript came from a needy MR. W. H. who served as both dedicatee and recipient.
Thomas Thorpe likely arranged the internal order of the collection himself with sections one through seventeen functioning as procreation sonnets while eighteen through 126 focus on love for the Fair Youth. Numbers 127 to 154 cover diverse subjects including politics, sex, and the Dark Lady.