Details for: WOLFE, John

Name: WOLFE, John
County: London
Town: London
Address(es): Distaff La, o/a Castle. O/a S Door of St Paul's, or at St Paul's Chain &c
Book Trades: Printer
Non-Book Trade: Not known
Trading Dates: 1579 - 1601 (date of death)
Biographical Dates: 1562 (date of apprenticeship) - 1601 (date of death)
Notes: `servant to Sir Philip Sydney' c1579; ran secret press in London (1581-4). Apprenticed to John Day sr. Husb Alice Wolfe
Sources:
  • Aldis, H.G. et al, A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books 1557-1640 (London, 1910)