Sarah Griffin was a professional printer who worked in London in the seventeenth century. She ran her own business from 1652 when she inherited the printing house of her ex-husband, Edward.[1] By 1668 she was operating two presses and employed one apprentice and six workmen.[2][3] Her varied output included multiple editions of Rose's Almanac for the Stationers' Company along with works in Latin and French.[4] Along with her son Bennett-John she printed the first published work by the poet Thomas Traherne, a work of Church history called Roman Forgeries (1673).
References
edit- ^ Henry R Plomer, A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland and Ireland From 1641 to 1667 (London: Bibliographical Society, 1907.
- ^ Henry R Plomer, A Short History of English Printing (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Trübner, 1900), p. 227.
- ^ McKenzie, Donald Francis; McDonald, Peter (2002). Making Meaning: Printers of the Mind and Other Essays (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book). University Massachusetts Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-1558493360.
- ^ See the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)