Nichols, John
1745 - Born on February 2nd in Islington, London. An English printer and author.
1759 - Became one of London’s most learned and influential printers.
1766 - Nichols became Bowyer’s partner and inherited the business on Bowyer’s death.
- He continued Bowyer’s tradition of printing for private gentlemen, learned societies and the Palace of Westminster.
1778 - Purchased a share in the Gentleman’s Magazine, a popular monthly periodical specialising in literature, history and the arts.
- John Nichols mixed business with his own interests in antiquities and biography. His press published many of the county histories of his day and his own History and Antiquities of the Town and County of Leicester, remains the standard history of that county.
1780 - He also produced a biography of Hogarth, edited the letters of Sir Richard Steele and published a Select Collection of Miscellaneous Poems 8 vols.
1804 - He was Master of the Stationers’ Company. A registrar of the Royal Literary Fund and a founder of the Royal Humane Society and a sea-bathing infirmary for ‘scrophulous diseases’ at Margate, Kent.
1810 - He was admitted a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
1812 - His memoirs of William Bowyer grew over thirty years to form the Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century 9 vols.
1817 - Wrote the Illustrations if the Literary History of Eighteenth Century, 8 vols.
1826 - Died on November 26th.
1759 - Became one of London’s most learned and influential printers.
1766 - Nichols became Bowyer’s partner and inherited the business on Bowyer’s death.
- He continued Bowyer’s tradition of printing for private gentlemen, learned societies and the Palace of Westminster.
1778 - Purchased a share in the Gentleman’s Magazine, a popular monthly periodical specialising in literature, history and the arts.
- John Nichols mixed business with his own interests in antiquities and biography. His press published many of the county histories of his day and his own History and Antiquities of the Town and County of Leicester, remains the standard history of that county.
1780 - He also produced a biography of Hogarth, edited the letters of Sir Richard Steele and published a Select Collection of Miscellaneous Poems 8 vols.
1804 - He was Master of the Stationers’ Company. A registrar of the Royal Literary Fund and a founder of the Royal Humane Society and a sea-bathing infirmary for ‘scrophulous diseases’ at Margate, Kent.
1810 - He was admitted a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
1812 - His memoirs of William Bowyer grew over thirty years to form the Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century 9 vols.
1817 - Wrote the Illustrations if the Literary History of Eighteenth Century, 8 vols.
1826 - Died on November 26th.
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