A dictionary of printers and booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of foreign printers of English books 1557-1640 / by H.G. Aldis [and others] ; general editor: R.B. McKerrow.

Date:
1910
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Credit: A dictionary of printers and booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of foreign printers of English books 1557-1640 / by H.G. Aldis [and others] ; general editor: R.B. McKerrow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WISE or WYTHES (ANDREW), bookseller in London, 1589-1603; The Angel in St. Paul’s Churchyard, This stationer whose name is frequently written in the Registers as Wythes or Withes, was the son of Henry Wythes of Ollerton Mallyveres, co. York, yeoman, and was apprentice to Henry Smith, stationer of London, for eight years from March 25th^ 1580, but on April loth, 1581, was transferred to Thomas Bradshaw, by whom he was made free on May 26th, 1589 [Arber, ii. 96, 104, 705]. He appears to have taken over the business of John Perrin and in 1593 published Thomas Nashe’s Chrisfs tears over Jerusalem^ which having originally been entered to Alice Charlewood was printed for Wise by James Roberts. Andrew Wise is chiefly remembered as a publisher of Shakespeare’s works. On August 29th, 1597, he entered The tragedye of Richard the Second [Arber, iii. 89], and on October 20th of the same year. The tragedie of hinge Richard the Third with the death of the Duke of Clarejice [Arber, iii. 93]. On February 25th, 1598, Wise entered T'he history of He7iry the IVth^ and on August 23rd, 1600, Heyiry IV, Part ii, and the play Much ado about Nothing [Arber, iii. 105, 170]. Andrew Wise transferred his copyrights to Mathew Law on June 25th, 1603, and is not heard of again [Arber, iii. 239]. WOLF (ALICE), see Wolf (John). WOLF or WOLh^E (JOHN), printer in London, 1579-1601 ; (i) Distaff Lane, over against the Castle; (2) Over against the South Door of St. Pauls, or, at St. Paul’s Chain, 1592. John Wolf was a member of an old Sussex family, and was a retainer of the family of Goring [Lower’s Hist, of Sussex, vol. I, p. 23 ; Cartwright’s Rape of Bramber, vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 102]. He is spoken of originally as a member of the Fishmongers’ Company, perhaps by “ patrimony,” but there is no evidence on the point. The first heard of him in connection with printing is on March 25th, 1562, when he began an apprenticeship of ten years with John Day [Arber, i. 172]. He was therefore rightly out of his time in 1572, after which he appears to have gone abroad and to have been for some time in Italy. In 1576 two Rapreseyitazione were printed in Florence “ad instanzia di Giovanni Vuolfio, Inglese.” One of these is in the British Museum [C. 1|, h. 6.]. Professor Gerber in his articles in Modern Language Notes, vol. xxii, p. 131, suggests that Wolf worked for a time in the printing office of