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Copyright, 1896, by THE GROlier Club PREFACE

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T may easily be believed that this would have been a better book had it been written by another hand, and written years ago while the Whittingham correspondence and many other useful papers were extant, and while there still lived certain men whose recollections might have increased the information, as well as the number, of these pages. But it is not conceivable that any author could be served with greater loyalty and enthusiasm on the part of his printer than I have been by Mr. Theodore L. De Vinne. In his advice and cheerful, untiring labor I have found inestimable help. Of his skill I need not speak.

London, September, 1896.

A. W.

Charles the Uncle and Charles the Nephew - Their services to literature and their
distinction as printers - Charles the Uncle born 1767 - Indentured as apprentice
at Coventry in 1779- A master printer in London in 1789 His early books.
Neglected by publishers His reprisals and association with Sharpe in the pub-
lication of important books

CHAPTER SECOND

Whittingham makes paper-stock at Chiswick in 1809 - Beginning of the Chiswick
Press - Partnership with Arliss which ended 1817 - Early work on woodcuts
designed by Thurston and engraved by Clennell and Thompson - The Shakespeare
of 1813 and the "London Theatre" - Books printed for Samuel Weller Singer.
Thomas Williams, the engraver, and other friends of Whittingham - Chiswick
Press edition of 1822 of the "British Poets."

CHAPTER THIRD

Charles Whittingham the Nephew born in 1795 - Indentured to his Uncle 1810.
Freeman in Stationers' Company 1817- Partner in Chiswick Press 1824-Per-
sonal peculiarities - Sojourn in Paris - His early work, the "Whittingham
French Classics" and "Whittingham Pocket Novels" - Business relations with
Cruikshank and Thompson, Tegg and Murray, Ainsworth and other authors.
Separated from his Uncle 1828.