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 deceased husband, Edward.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. By 1668 she was operating two presses and employed one apprentice and six workmen.Henry R Plomer, A Short History of English Printing (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Trübner, 1900), p. 227. Her varied output included multiple editions of Rose's Almanac for the Stationers' Company along with works in Latin and French.See the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) 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).
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