Thomas Purfoot (1546 - 1615) is the imprint of an

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bookselling and printing business based in

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. The business was successively owned by Thomas Purfoot Senior and Thomas Purfoot Junior. Purfoot's printshop was located in

St Nicholas Shambles St Nicholas Shambles was a medieval church in the City of London, which stood on the corner of Butcher Hall Lane (now King Edward Street) and Newgate Street. It took its name from the Shambles, the butchers area in the west of Newgate Street. The ...

. He largely printed translations of foreign works and medical and scientific texts. Thomas Orwin served as his apprentice. However, Orwin went on to work for the printer George Robinson.

Books printed

*1566

David Lyndsay Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount (c. 1490 – c. 1555; ''alias'' Lindsay) was a Scottish herald who gained the highest heraldic office of Lyon King of Arms. He remains a well regarded poet whose works reflect the spirit of the Renaissance, speci ...

''The Monarchie Ane Dialog betwixt Experience and ane Courteor'' *1567 (unknown author) ''Trial of Treasure'' *1571? Thomas Purfoote ''A coppie of the letter sent from Ferrara the xxii. of Nouember. 1570'' *1575

George Gascoigne George Gascoigne (c. 15357 October 1577) was an English poet, soldier and unsuccessful courtier. He is considered the most important poet of the early Elizabethan era, following Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and leading to ...

, ''The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting'' *1581 Robert Fletcher''An Introduction to the Looue of God. Accoumpted among the workes of St. Augustine, and translated into English by Edmund reake bishop of Norwich that nowe is … and turned into Englishe Meter by Rob. Fletcher'' *1597 Peter Lowe ''The whole course of chirurgerie ... Compiled by Peter Lowe Scotchman, Arellian, Doctor in the Facultie of Chirurgerie in Paris, and chirurgian ordinarie to the most victorious and christian King of Fraunce and Nauarre.'' *1605 John Marston, ''

The Dutch Courtesan ''The Dutch Courtesan'' is an early Jacobean stage play written by the dramatist and satirist John Marston circa 1604. It was performed by the Children of the Queen's Revels, one of the troupes of boy actors active at the time, in the Black ...

'' *1606 Samuel Gardiner, ''A Booke of Angling or Fishing. Wherein is shewed by conference with Scriptures the agreement betweene the Fishermen, Fishes, Fishing, of both natures, Temporall and Spirituall, Math. iv. 19.'' *1610

Andrea Ghisi Andrea Ghisi was a Venetian nobleman, and the first Lord of Tinos and Mykonos. There are no sources about him until 1207 when he participated in the expedition organized by Marco Sanudo for the conquest of the Greek islands which, three years aft ...

, ''Wits Laberynth''

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