John Taylor (English publisher)
John Taylor | |
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Born | East Retford, Nottinghamshire, England | 31 July 1781
Died | 5 July 1864 | (aged 82)
Occupation(s) | Publisher, essayist, writer, Egyptologist |
Known for | Publisher of John Keats and John Clare |
John Taylor (31 July 1781 – 5 July 1864) was an English publisher, essayist, and writer. He is noted as the publisher of the poets John Keats and John Clare.
Life
He was born in
Taylor and Hessey
Taylor formed a partnership with
.In 1821 John Taylor became involved in publishing the
Taylor and Walton
In later years he became Bookseller and Publisher to the then new
After a long bachelor's life fraught with illness and depression, he died at 7 Leonard Place, Kensington, on 5 July 1864 and was buried in the churchyard at Gamston, near Retford, where his tombstone was paid for by the University of London.[2]
Legacy
After Taylor's death, many of his manuscripts were put up for sale at Sotheby's, but the poets of the Regency era were out of fashion, and the total only fetched about £250. In contrast, when sold in 1897, the manuscripts of Endymion and Lamia fetched £695 and £305 respectively.
Publications
Taylor wrote and published his own work, Junius Identified, naming the writer of Letters of Junius, probably correctly, as Sir Philip Francis. It ran to two editions, the second in 1818.
- Taylor, John. The Great Pyramid: Why Was It Built, & Who Built It? Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859 (London).
- Taylor, John. The Battle of the Standards. The Ancient, of Four Thousand Years, Against the Modern, of the Last Fifty Years--the Less Perfect of the Two. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864 (London).
In The Great Pyramid (1859), Taylor argued that the numbers
According to Bernard Lightman, these two publications are strongly linked. He says: "Taylor and his disciples urged that the dimensions of the Pyramid showed the divine origin of the British units of length."[3]
Family
His brother, James Taylor (1788–1863), banker of Bakewell in Derbyshire, published a number of articles on bimetallism.
See also
References
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27060. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Chilcott, Tim (1972). A publisher and his circle. The life and works of John Taylor, Keats's publisher. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 196–197.
- ^ Bernard Lightman, Victorian Science in Context, p.450, University of Chicago Press, 1997 [1]
Further reading
- Blunden, Edmund. Keats's Publisher: A Memoir Of John Taylor (1781-1864). London, Jonathan Cape, 1936.
- Chilcott, Tim. A Publisher and His Circle: The Life and Work of John Taylor, Keats's Publisher. London and Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972.
External links
- Stray, Chris (1996). John Taylor and Locke’s Classical System. Retrieved October 19, 2005.
- Portraits of John Taylor at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Works by or about John Taylor at Internet Archive
- Publications by Taylor and Hessey at the Internet Archive
- Taylor, John (1781-1864) Publisher at the National Archives, London
- John Taylor, publishers at the National Archives, London
- John Taylor and James Augustus Hessey at the National Archives, London