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Name
  
Henry Wheatley


Role
  
Author


Died
  
1917, London, United Kingdom

Books
  
London Past and Present, Literary Blunders, How to form a library, Round About Piccadilly, What is an index?

Similar People
  
Samuel Pepys, Philip Henry Delamotte, Richard Le Gallienne, John Evelyn

Henry Benjamin Wheatley FSA (1838–1917) was a British author, editor, and indexer. His London Past and Present was described as his most important work and "the standard dictionary of London".

Contents

Life

He was a posthumous son of Benjamin Wheatley, an auctioneer, and his wife Madalina; the bibliographer Benjamin Robert Wheatley was his brother, and passed on expertise.

Wheatley was Assistant Secretary to Royal Society of Arts, 1879-1909; founding member (1903) and President of the Samuel Pepys Club, 1903-1910; Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society, 1908-1910, and its President 1911-1913. In 1909 he was the President of the Sette of Odd Volumes, an English bibliophile dining-club.

Articles

  • "Folk-Lore Terminology". Folk-Lore Journal. 2: 340–347. 1884. 
  • "Celebrated Birthplaces: Samuel Johnson at Lichfield". The Antiquary: 233–239. December 1884. 
  • "Post-Restoration Quartos of Shakespeare's Plays". The Library. Third Series. 4 (15): 237–269. July 1913. 

    • Books

  • Of Anagrams: A Monograph Treating of Their History from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. Williams & Norgate, 1862.
  • "Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall, or, A ramble from Haymarket to Hyde Park, 1870
  • What is an Index?, 1878
  • Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In, 1880, 1st edition; online text, 5th edition, 1907 from hathitrust.org
  • The Bibliographer, 1884.
  • How to Form a Library, 1887
  • The Dedication of Books to Patron and Friend, 1887
  • How to Catalogue a Library. Published by Eliot Stock 1889.
  • Remarkable bindings in the British Museum, 1889
  • London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions. John Murray, 1891.
  • Reliques of Old London, George Bell & Sons, 1896. (descriptions of buildings with lithographs by Thomas Robert Way)
  • How to Make an Index, 1902.
  • The Story of London, [Mediæval Towns Series] 1904
  • Literary Blunders, 1905

    • As editor

  • Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britain Tongue by Alexander Hume at Project Gutenberg, 1865; 2nd edition, 1870
  • Editor, Books in Chains by William Blades (includes Wheatley's introduction and brief bio of Blades, whom he knew), 1892

    • References

    Henry B. Wheatley Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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