Charles Henry Timperley
Charles Henry Timperley(1794–1869) was anEnglishprinter and writer.
Life
[edit]He was born inManchester,and educated at theManchester Grammar School.In March 1810 he enlisted in the33rd Regiment of Foot,was wounded at theBattle of Waterloo,and was discharged on 28 November 1815. He went back to his apprenticeship to an engraver and copperplate printer, and in 1821 became a letterpress printer by indenture to Messrs. Dicey & Smithson, proprietors of theNorthampton Mercury.Around 1829 he hadSpencer Timothy Hallas a colleague in the firm.[1]
In April 1828 Timperley gave two lectures on the art of printing to the Warwick and Leamington Literary Institution. He then became foreman to T. Kirk ofNottingham,and editor of theNottingham Wreath.He married a widow there.[1]
Timperley later managed a bookseller's shop owned by Bancks & Co. of Manchester. The business was undermined by sharp practice and fraud.[2]He accepted a post with Fisher & Jackson, publishers, of London, and remarried after the death of his first wife. His second wife left him to emigrate to Australia, however, and he suffered paralysis and poverty after 1846.[2]
Works
[edit]In 1833 he producedSongs of the Press and other Poems relating to the art of Printing, original and selected; also Epitaphs, Epigrams, Anecdotes, Notices of early Printing and Printers,London, and an enlarged edition of the poetical portion appeared in 1845; some of the verse is by Timperley himself. In 1838 he publishedThe Printers' Manual.[3]It was followed byA Dictionary of Printers and Printing, with the Progress of Literature, ancient and modern, Bibliographical Illustrations,London, 1839. The remaindered stock of these two works was purchased byH. G. Bohn,who issued the two together, with some additions, under the title ofEncyclopædia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote.[4]Timperley also wroteAnnals of Manchester, biographical, historical, ecclesiastical, and commercial, from the earliest period,Manchester, 1839, and helped to editGeorge Newenham Wright'sGallery of Engravings(from 1845).[1]
References
[edit]- ^abc.Dictionary of National Biography.London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^abWoolrich, A. P. "Timperley, Charles Henry (1794–1861)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27461.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^The Printers' Manual, containing Instructions to Learners, with Scales of Impositions and numerous Calculations, Recipes, and Scales of Prices in the principal Towns of Great Britain, together with practical Directions for conducting every Department of a Printing Office,London.
- ^Encyclopædia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote, being a Chronological Digest of the most interesting Facts illustrative of the History of Literature and Printing from the earliest period to the present time,2nd edit. London, 1842.
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