Reginald (or Reyner) Wolfe (died 1573) was a

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-born

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and one of the original members of the Royal Stationers' Company.

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Wolfe was born in

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in the Netherlands. A learned and devout Protestant, he settled in England some time before 1530 and established himself as a bookseller at St. Paul's Churchyard,

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. Wolfe began to print in 1542. He was the first printer in England to maintain a large stock of Greek type.

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made him Royal Printer in Latin, Greek and Hebrew and awarded him an annuity of 26s. 8d. for life. Despite his Protestantism,

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made him one of the original members of the Stationers' Company. Under

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, he served as Master of the Company in 1559, 1564, 1567 and 1572. Wolfe published works by

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, the antiquarian John Leland,

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and

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. In 1548, he conceived a project for a "Universal Cosmography of the whole world, and therewith also certain particular histories of every known nation." He hired

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and William Harrison to assist in the task, but it remained unfinished at Wolfe's death in 1573. Much of the material was published by Holinshed in 1577 as ''The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland'' (usually known as

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Family

Wolfe married Joan (died 1574), who briefly ran his business after his death. The family included sons John and Robert, a daughter who married John Harrison, another bookseller, and Elizabeth who married Stephen Nevinson.

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*An illustration of Reginald Wolfe'
printing device
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolfe, Reginald Year of birth unknown 1573 deaths People from Druten English printers English Protestants 16th-century English businesspeople 16th-century Protestants Holinshed's Chronicles

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