Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
|
See also: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 . |
|
|
[back] WILLIAM WHISTON (1667-1752) |
[next] SAMUEL WHITBREAD (1758-1815) |
There are no comments yet for this article.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.