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See also:CASSELL, See also:JOHN (1817–1865) , See also:British publisher, was See also:born in See also:Manchester on the 23rd of See also:January 1817. His See also:father was the landlord of a public-See also:house, and John was apprenticed to a joiner. He was self-educated, gaining by his own efforts a considerable acquaintance with See also:English literature and a knowledge of See also:French. He came to See also:London in 1836 to See also:work at his See also:trade, but his energies at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time were chiefly centred in the cause of See also:temperance,for which he was an active worker. In 1847 he established himself as a See also:tea and See also:coffee See also:merchant, and soon after started a See also:publishing business with the aim of supplying See also:good literature to the working classes. From the offices of the See also:firm, which became in 1859 Messrs. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., were issued the Popular Educator (1852-1855), the Technical Educator (187o–1872), the See also:Magazine of See also:Art (1878–1903), Cassell's Magazine (from 1852), and numerous See also:editions of See also:standard See also:works. A See also:special feature of Cassell's popular books was the See also:illustration. At the time of the See also:Crimean See also:War he procured from See also:Paris the cuts used in L'Illustration, and by See also:printing them in his See also:Family See also:Paper (begun in 1853) secured a large circulation for it. The firm was converted in 1883 into a limited liability See also:company, under the name of Cassell & Company, Limited. John Cassell died in London on the 2nd of See also:April 1865.
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