8-640: The Chiswick Press was founded by Charles Whittingham I (1767–1840) in 1811. The management of the Press was taken over in 1840 by the founder's nephew Charles Whittingham II (1795–1876). The name was first used in 1811, and the Press continued to operate until 1962. C. Whittingham I gained notoriety for his popularly priced classics, but the Chiswick Press became very influential in English printing and typography under C. Whittingham II who, most notably, published some of
16-427: Is credited with having been the first to use proper overlays in printing woodcuts , as he was the first to print a fine, or "Indian Paper" edition. He was one of the first to use a steam engine in a pulp mill , but his presses he preferred to have worked by hand. He died at Chiswick. His nephew Charles Whittingham (1795–1876) , who from 1824 to 1828 had been in partnership with his uncle, in 1838 assumed control of
24-459: The Rev. Orby Shipley also used Basle roman: Lyra eucharistica (1863), Lyra messianica (1864) and Lyra mystica (1865). After William Morris's Kelmscott Press closed, leftover paper and the type fonts were given to the Chiswick Press. Charles Whittingham Charles Whittingham (16 June 1767 – 5 January 1840) was an English printer. He was born at Caludon or Calledon , Warwickshire ,
32-504: The business. He already had printing works at Took's Court, Chancery Lane , London, and had printed various notable books, especially 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
40-630: The early designs of William Morris . The Chiswick Press deserves conspicuous credit for the reintroduction of quality printing into the trade in England when in 1844 it produced The Diary of Lady Willoughby . The typeface Basle Roman was cut for the Chiswick Press in 1854 by William Howard and cast at his foundry in Great Queen Street. It was first used for the Rev. William Calvert's The Wife's Manual (a book of religious verse), published in 1854; later editions followed in 1856 and 1861, both set in
48-494: 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 and sold them by auction himself. In 1809, he started a paper-pulp factory at Chiswick , near London, and in 1811 founded the Chiswick Press . From 1810 to 1815 he devoted his chief attention to illustrated books and
56-561: The same type which apparently had only one size, 10-11 pt and no italic. The Basle roman is a type based on the kind of roman type used by Johannes Froben of Basle in the early 16th century. In 1889 it was used by William Morris for his romance A Tale of the House of the Wolfings , and again for The Roots of the Mountains (dated 1890 but appeared the year before). The volumes of religious verse by
64-463: The son of a farmer, and was apprenticed to a Coventry printer and bookseller. In 1789 he set up a small printing press in a garret off Fleet Street , London , with a loan obtained from the Caslon Type Foundry , 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
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