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kindred Teutonic dialects, — a proficiency which afterwards proved 

 of eminent utility in his professional career, by far the greater 

 number of the Anglo-Saxon works, and works connected with 

 that branch of literature, published in London during the last 

 forty years, having issued from his press. 



On the expiration of his apprenticeship, he carried on business 

 for a short time in Chancery Lane, in partnership with a Mr. 

 Wilks; but on his birthday in the year 1803, at the age of 

 twenty-two, he established himself, in partnership with his father, 

 in Blackhorse Court, Fleet Street, from whence he soon after 

 removed to Shoe Lane, and subsequently to E.ed Lion Court. 

 His press speedily became the medium through which nearly all 

 the more important works in scientific natural history were 

 ushered into the world ; and the careful accuracy by which all its 

 productions were distinguished led to a rapid extension of its use. 

 It was immediately adopted by the Linnean Society ; the Eoyal 

 Society and many other learned bodies succeeded ; individual 

 members naturally followed the example of the Societies to which 

 they belonged ; and the same valuable qualities which had rendered 

 it so acceptable to men of science were equally appreciated by 

 those engaged in other pursuits. The beautiful editions of the 

 Classics which proceeded from it, soon rendered his favourite 

 device (the lamp receiving oil, with its motto of " Alere flammam") 

 as familiar to all who had received a classical education in Eng- 

 land as it had been from the beginning to the world of science. 

 It would be tedious to enumerate even the more important of 

 these works ; but there is one in all respects so remarkable as to 

 deserve especial mention. This is the facsimile of the Psalms 

 from the Codex Alexandrinus, edited by the Eev. H. H. Baber, 

 " at whose chambers in the British Museum," says Mr. Taylor in 

 his Diary, under date of the 11th Nov. 1811, " I have collated the 

 proofs of the first and second sheets with the Codex letter by 

 letter, and I intend, if possible, to do the same for all the rest." 

 A more striking proof could not be adduced of his strict attention 

 to the accuracy of his press, and of his persevering devotion even 

 to the minutest duties of his profession. It was by such means, 

 aided by his high moral worth, that he nobly sustained the credit 

 of the profession to which his abilities were devoted, and de- 

 servedly acquired the friendship, esteem, and confidence of the 

 large circle of eminent men with whom it brought him into con- 

 stant and familiar intercourse. 



In the year 1807 he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, 



