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. ^[1]

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.

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.

• 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^[2]
• 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

• 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

• Wikisource contiene una pagina 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

• Opere di John Timbs, su MLOL, Horizons Unlimited.
• (EN) Opere di John Timbs / John Timbs (altra versione), su Open Library, Internet Archive.
• (EN) Opere di John Timbs, su Progetto Gutenberg.
• (EN) John Timbs, su Goodreads.

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