John Timbs

John Timbs, noto anche con lo pseudonimo di Horace Welby (Clerkenwell, 17 agosto 1801 – Edenbridge, 6 marzo 1875), è stato uno scrittore, editore e antiquario inglese.

Biografia

Timbs è nato nel 1801 a Clerkenwell, Londra, e ha studiato in una scuola privata a Hemel Hempstead. Nel suo sedicesimo anno fu apprendista di un droghiere e tipografo a Dorking. Aveva mostrato presto capacità letterarie e, quando ebbe diciannove anni, iniziò a scrivere per il The Monthly Magazine. Un anno dopo divenne segretario di Sir Richard Phillips, il suo titolare, e adottò permanentemente la letteratura come professione.

È stato successivamente redattore di The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, il Harlequin, The Literary World e viceredattore di The Illustrated London News. È stato anche fondatore e primo redattore del Yearbook of facts in Science and Art. Le sue opere pubblicate ammontano a più di centocinquanta volumi. Nel 1834 fu eletto membro della Society of Antiquaries of London.

Timbs morì il 6 marzo 1875 e fu sepolto nel cimitero di San Pietro e San Paolo, Edenbridge, nel Kent.

Opere

Alcune di queste opere sono state pubblicate con lo pseudonimo di Horace Welby. Le sue opere continuarono ad essere rieditate e ripubblicate anche dopo la sua morte.

Opere letterarie

A picturesque promenade round Dorking, in surrey, 1822
Signs before death, and authenticated apparitions: in 100 narratives, collected by Horace Welby, 1825
Laconics, 1826
Arcana of science and art: or, an annual register of useful inventions and improvements, discoveries and new facts, in mechanics, chemistry, natural history, and social economy, 1828
Cameleon sketches, 1828
Table-wit, and after-dinner anecdote, 1840
A manual of cage birds, british and foreign: with directions for breeding, rearing and keeping them, 1847
Wellingtonia: anecdotes, maxims and characteristics of the duke of Wellington, 1852
Curiosities of London, 1855
Things not generally known, 1856
Curiosities of history, 1857
Curiosities of science ...: a book for old and young, 1858
School-days of eminent men, 1858
Painting popularly explained: including fresco, oil, tempera, mosaic, encaustic, water-colour, miniature, missal, painting on pottery, porcelain, enamel, glass, &c., with historical sketches of the progress of the art, 1859
Things not generally known, familiarly explained, 1859
Anecdote lives of William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence and J.M.W. Turner, 1860
Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts, 1860
Mysteries of life, death, and futurity, 1861
Anecdote lives of wits and humourists, 1862
Anecdote lives of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and Edmund Burke, 1862
Notabilia: or, curious and amusing facts about many things, explained and illustrated, 1862
Popular errors explained and illustrated, 1862
Things to be remembered in daily life, 1863
A century of anecdote from 1760 to 1860, 1864
Knowledge for the time, 1864
The romance of London, 1865
Club life of London, 1866
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, 1866
Something for everybody; and a garland for the year, 1866
Strange stories of the animal world: a book of curious contributions to natural history, 1866
Nooks and corners of english life, past and present, 1867
Historic ninepins: a book of curiosities, where old and young may read strange matters, 1868
London and Westminster: city and suburb, 1868
Ancestral stories and traditions of great families, 1869
Mountain adventures in the various countries of the world, 1869
Abbeys, castles, and ancient halls of England and Wales, 1870
Wonderful inventions: from the mariner's compass to the electric telegraph cable, 1870
Clubs and club life in London, 1872
Curiosities of animal and vegetable life, 1872
Oddities of history: and strange stories, 1872
Thoughts for times and seasons, 1872
Doctors and patients: or, anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine, 1873
Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists
English eccentrics: portraits of strange characters and oddballs
Strange sights and sporting scenes

Periodici

Harlequin. A journal of the drama, dal 1829
The Literary World, dal 1839
Yearbook of facts in Science and Art, dal 1853
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction

Note

↑ (EN) Hugh Chisholm, Timbs, John, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Volume 26, Cambridge University Press. URL consultato il 15 marzo 2019.
↑ (EN) John Timbs, Curiosities of London, Londra, David Bogue, 1855. URL consultato il 15 marzo 2019.

Altri progetti

Wikisource contiene una pagina in lingua inglese dedicata a John Timbs
Wikisource contiene una pagina in lingua inglese dedicata a John Timbs
Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su John Timbs

Collegamenti esterni

Opere di John Timbs, su MLOL, Horizons Unlimited.

(EN) Opere di John Timbs / John Timbs (altra versione), su Open Library, Internet Archive.

(EN) John Timbs, su Goodreads.

Controllo di autorità	VIAF (EN) 42620079 · ISNI (EN) 0000 0001 0892 2518 · SBN SBLV134186 · BAV 495/267791 · CERL cnp01896039 · LCCN (EN) n50012717 · GND (DE) 117627925 · BNF (FR) cb12951933q (data) · J9U (EN, HE) 987007268958505171 · NDL (EN, JA) 01064121

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[1] (EN) Hugh Chisholm, Timbs, John, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Volume 26, Cambridge University Press. URL consultato il 15 marzo 2019.

[2] (EN) John Timbs, Curiosities of London, Londra, David Bogue, 1855. URL consultato il 15 marzo 2019.