Thomas Purfoot

Thomas Purfoot (1546 - 1615) is the imprint of an English bookselling and printing business based in London.

Purfoot's printshop was located in St Nicholas Shambles.

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.

Title page of The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting by George Gascoigne (1611 edition)