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Dissertation Information for Janet Thompson Ing

NAME:
- Janet Thompson Ing

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Berkeley (USA) (1985)

ADVISORS:
- Robert D. Harlan

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Frederic J. Mosher
- Alan Holm Nelson

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM THE YOUNGER AND THE CHISWICK PRESS, 1852-59 (PRINTING, LONDON, ENGLAND)

Abstract: Charles Whittingham the Younger (1795-1876) set up his own London printing office in 1828, and in 1839 took over the Chiswick shop of his uncle Charles the Elder, in business as a printer from around 1789. Through the 1840s Whittingham operated shops both at Chiswick and in central London, but in 1852 he abandoned the Chiswick office, concentrating his men and equipment in his shop in Tooks Court, off Chancery Lane in Holborn. This study of Whittingham's printing activity, based primarily on the surviving records of the firm now held by the British Library, focuses onhe printer's last eight years as an active participant in the Chiswick Press (1852-59).

In large part because of his work during the 1830s and 1840s for the publisher William Pickering, Whittingham acquired a considerable reputation in his own time as a craftsman of unusual ability. He combined a shrewd business sense with a deep concern for the quality of the books produced in his shop, and ran a successful business that catered to the needs of discriminating clients. Examination of nearly 400 books and pamphlets printed at the Press during the period 1852-59 has led to a better understanding of the printer's use of various design formulae, his treatment of particular kinds of work, and his methods of collaboration with clients. The business records of the firm have been used to reconstruct Whittingham's unique stock of ornamental and typographic material, and the equipment of the shop as a whole. Wage records have given an idea of the size and composition of Whittingham's staff, as well as information about the earnings of workmen in one London shop of the 1850s. Various production and accounting routines have been reconstructed on the basis of extant records that show speed of production, overlapping production of jobs, and costs and charges for individual items.

In the absence of detailed studies of other nineteenth-century English printing offices, it is difficult to draw conclusions as to how representative Whittingham's shop was of the entire class of medium-sized London shops specializing in book printing. It is certain, however, that such analysis of the records of even one printer can provide necessary information to better document standard printing house practice at the end of the handpress era.

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