Details for: ROTHWELL, John I

Name: ROTHWELL, John I
County: London
Town: London
Address(es): Sun & Fountain in St Paul's Chyd
Book Trades: Bookseller, Bookbinder
Non-Book Trade: Not known
Trading Dates: 1600 (date of freedom) - 1649
Biographical Dates: 1592 (date of apprenticeship) - 1649 (date of death)
Notes: Also Rodwell; Rodway. Apprenticed to Thomas Stirrop; freed by widow of Stirrop. Father of John Rothwell 2
Sources:
  • Plomer, Henry R., A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 (London, 1907)
  • Pollard, A.W. and Redgrave, G.R., A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640, 2nd ed. revised and enlarged, 3 vols. (London 1986, 1976, 1991), esp. vol. 3
  • Bell, Maureen, 'Hannah Allen and the Development of a Puritan Publishing Business, 1646-51', in Publishing History 26 (1989), pp5-66