John Wolfe and the Impact of Exemplary Go-Betweens on Early Modern Print Culture'

John Wolfe is identified in this essay as a key link between Continental printers, who were often learned scholars in their own right or worked closely with prominent humanists who prepared printer's copies of classical or vernacular works for their presses, and London stationers, who occasionally pretended to imitate Continental practice by adding fake editorial pledges (or false imprints) to the title-pages of their books, but who also sometimes genuinely strove to improve the quality of their presswork by emulating their European counterparts.