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JOSEPH WHITAKER (1820-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 597 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:WHITAKER (1820-1895)  , See also:English publisher, was See also:born in See also:London on the 4th of May 1820, and apprenticed to a bookseller at the See also:age of fourteen . After a See also:long experience with various See also:bookselling firms, he began business on his own See also:account as a theological publisher . In See also:January 1858 he started the See also:Book-seller, and for 1869 published the first issue of See also:Whitaker's Almanack, the See also:annual See also:work of reference, which also met with immediate success . In 1874 he published the first edition of the Reference See also:Catalogue of Current Literature, of which several See also:editions have since appeared . Whitaker died at See also:Enfield on the 15th of May 1895 . He had been the See also:father of fifteen See also:children .

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