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WHITAKER, JOSEPH (1820-1895)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 597 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WHITAKER, JOSEPH (1820-1895) ,
English
  publisher, was
born
  in London on the 4th of May 1820, and apprenticed to a bookseller at the age of fourteen. After a
long
  experience with various bookselling firms, he began business on his own
account
  as a theological publisher. In January 1858 he started the
Book
 -seller, and for 1869 published the first issue of
Whitaker
 's Almanack, the annual
work
  of reference, which also met with immediate success. In 1874 he published the first edition of the Reference Catalogue of Current Literature, of which several
editions
  have since appeared.
Whitaker
  died at
Enfield
  on the 15th of May 1895. He had been the father of fifteen children.


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