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See also:WHITTINGHAM, See also:CHARLES (1767-1840) , See also:English printer, was See also:born on the 16th of See also:June 1767,. at Caludon or Calledon, See also:Warwickshire, the son of a See also:farmer, and was apprenticed to e See also:Coventry printer and bookseller. In 1789 he set up a small See also:printing See also:press in a See also:garret off See also:Fleet See also:Street, See also:London, with a See also:loan obtained from the typefounding See also:firm of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Caslon, and by 1797 his business had so increased that he was enabled to move into larger premises. An edition of See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray's Poems, printed by him in 1799, secured him the patronage of all the leading publishers. Whittingham inaugurated the See also:idea of printing cheap, handy See also:editions of See also:standard authors, and, on the See also:bookselling See also:trade threatening not to sell his productions, took a See also:room at a See also:coffee See also:house and sold them by See also:auction himself. In 1809 he started a See also:paper-pulp factory at See also:Chiswick, near London, and in 1811 founded the Chiswick Press. From 1810 to 1815 he devoted his See also:chief See also:attention to illustrated books, and is credited with having been the first to use proper overlays in printing woodcuts, as he was the first to See also:print a See also:fine, or " See also:Indian Paper " edition. He was one of the first to use a See also:steam-See also:engine in a pulp See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill, but his presses he preferred to have worked by See also:hand. He died at Chiswick on the 5th of See also:January 184o.
His See also:nephew, CHARLES WHITTINGHAM (1795-1876), who from 1824 to 1828 had been in See also:partnership with his See also:uncle, in 1838 assumed See also:control of the business. He already had printing See also:works at Took's See also:Court, See also:Chancery See also:Lane, London, and had printed various notable books, specially devoting himself to the introduction of ornamental initial letters, and the See also:artistic arrangement of the printed See also:page. The imprint of the Chiswick press was now placed on the productions of the Took's Court as well as of the Chiswick works, and in 1852 the whole business was removed to London. Under the management of the younger Whittingham the Chiswick Press achieved a considerable reputation. He died on the 21st of See also:April 1876.
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