Chiswick Press

The founder of Chiswick Press was Charles Whittingham (1767-1840).

Upon completion of his printing apprenticeship in Coventry, Whittingham set up his own press in London in 1795, a short-lived Tory journal The Tomahawk. He eventually settled in the Thameside suburb of Chiswick, giving the name of the town to the book publishing division of Charles Whittingham and Co. Whittingham's nephew, Charles Whittingham the younger, joined his uncle as a partner in the firm. The firm then began publishing books, among them a series called "Whittingham's Cabinet Library." After four years the younger Whittingham left the firm and set up his own independent shop in London.

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