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WHITTINGHAM, CHARLES (1767-1840) , English printer, was born on the 16th of June 1767,. at Caludon or Calledon, Warwickshire, the son of a farmer, and was apprenticed to e Coventry printer and bookseller. In 1789 he set up a small printing press in a garret off Fleet
loan obtained from the typefounding firm of William Caslon, and by 1797 his business had so increased that he was enabled to move into larger premises. An edition of Gray's Poems, printed by him in 1799, secured him the patronage of all the leading publishers. Whittingham inaugurated the idea of printing cheap, handy editions of standard authors, and, on the bookselling trade threatening not to sell his productions, took a room at a coffee house
auction
paper -pulp factory at Chiswick
Chiswick
chief
Paper " edition. He was one of the first to use a steam-engine
His nephew, CHARLES WHITTINGHAM (1795-1876), who from 1824 to 1828 had been in partnership with his uncle, in 1838 assumed control of the business. He already had printing works at Took's Court, Chancery Lane, London, and had printed various notable books, specially devoting himself to the introduction of ornamental initial letters, and the artistic arrangement of the printed 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 April 1876.End of Article: WHITTINGHAM, CHARLES (1767-1840) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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