John Weale (publisher)

{{Short description|19th century English publisher}}

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John Weale (1791 – 18 December 1862, in Maida Vale){{cite book|title=Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862|year=1863|publisher=D. Appleton & Company|location=New York|page=695|url=https://archive.org/stream/1862appletonsan02newyuoft#page/n702/mode/1up}} was an English publisher of popular scientific, architectural, engineering and educational works.

Life

He first began publishing with George Priestley in St Giles, London who died around 1812, and worked then with Priestley's widow.{{ODNBweb|id=28908|title=Weale, John|first=Jonathan R.|last=Topham}} He took a particular interest in the study of architecture. In 1823 he issued a bibliographical Catalogue of Works on Architecture and the Fine Arts, of which a new edition appeared in 1854. He bought the architectural publishing business at 59 High Holborn built up by Isaac Taylor and his son Josiah Taylor as The Architectural Library,{{Cite web|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists|title=Art and artists | Royal Academy of Arts|website=www.royalacademy.org.uk|accessdate=2 March 2023}} after Josiah's death in 1834.

He followed the Catalogue in 1849–50 with a Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering, a work which reached a fifth edition in 1876.{{fact|date=February 2025}}

File:Annular marine engine.jpg, from Robert Murray, Rudimentary Treatise on Marine Engines and Steam Vessels (1858), published by John Weale.]]

Weale died in London on 18 December 1862.{{fact|date=February 2025}}

Works

Weale published also:

  • Steam Navigation, Tredgold on the Steam Engine, Appendix A, edited and published by John Weale, London, 1839
  • A Series of Examples in Architectural Engineering and Mechanical Drawing, London, 1841; supplemental Description, London, 1842.
  • Designs of ornamental Gates, Lodges, Palisading, and Ironwork of the Royal Parks adjoining the Metropolis, edited by John Weale’ London, 1841.
  • The Theory, Practice, and Architecture of Bridges of Stone, Iron, Timber, and Wire, edited by John Weale, London, 1843, 2 vols.; a supplemental volume, edited by George Rowdon Burnell and William Tierney Clark, appeared in 1853.
  • Divers Works of early Masters in Christian Decoration, London, 1846, 2 vols.
  • The Great Britain Atlantic Steam Ship, London, 1847.
  • Letter to Lord John Russell on the defence of the Country, London, 1847.
  • London exhibited in 1851, London, 1851; 2nd edit. 1852.
  • Designs and Examples of Cottages, Villas, and Country Houses, London, 1857.
  • Examples for Builders, Carpenters, and Joiners, London, 1857.
  • Old English and French Ornaments, comprising 244 Designs. Collected by John Weale, London, 1858

He edited Weale's Quarterly Papers on Engineering, London, 1843–6, 6 vols., and Weale's Quarterly Papers on Architecture, London, 1843–5, 4 vols.

Weale's ''Rudimentary Series''

Weale was on good terms with many men of science, and published cheap literature for technical education. His Rudimentary Series (over 130 works, usually selling at one shilling) and other educational series comprised standard works, both in classics and science. They were suggested initially by William Reid,{{cite DNB|wstitle=Reid, William (1791-1858)}} and were continued after his death, first by James Sprent Virtue. The Rudimentary Series was later followed by the Weale's Scientific & Technical Series (1881-1923), published first by John Weale and then by Crosby, Lockwood and Son.[https://www.publishinghistory.com/weales-scientific-and-technical-series-crosby-lockwood-and-son.html Weale's Scientific & Technical Series (Crosby, Lockwood and Son - Book Series List], publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 28 October 2021.

Source: Lists at end of the publications.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/atreatiseongasw00hughgoog#page/n398/mode/2up|title = A treatise on gas works and the practice of manufacturing and distributing coal gas|year = 1871}} The series was later taken on by the publisher Crosby Lockwood, who added volumes while retaining the system of reference numbers (across editions).{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/rudimentsofartof00dobsrich#page/n189/mode/2up|title = Rudiments of the art of building : In five sections--general principles of construction; materials used in building; strength of materials; use of materials; working drawings, specifications, and estimates|year = 1890}}

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!Series number

!First published

!Author

!Title

!Comments

1

|1849?

|George Fownes

|Rudimentary Chemistry

|[http://www.worldcat.org/title/rudimentary-chemistry-for-the-use-of-beginners/oclc/670439293/editions?start_edition=1&sd=asc&referer=di&se=yr&qt=sort_yr_asc&editionsView=true&fq= WorldCat editions]
[https://archive.org/stream/rudimentarychem00fowngoog#page/n6/mode/2up archive.org Read Online (1853).]

2

|1848

|Charles Tomlinson

|Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy

|[http://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-the-study-of-natural-philosophy/oclc/316512953/editions?start_edition=1&sd=asc&referer=di&se=yr&qt=sort_yr_asc&editionsView=true&fq= WorldCat editions]

3

|1849

|Joseph Ellison Portlock

|Rudimentary Geology

|[http://www.worldcat.org/title/rudimentary-treatise-on-geology/oclc/316447841/editions?start_edition=1&sd=asc&referer=di&se=yr&qt=sort_yr_asc&editionsView=true&fq= WorldCat editions]
There was an 1871 rewrite as Rudimentary Treatise on Geology by Ralph Tate: [http://www.worldcat.org/title/rudimentary-treatise-on-geology-ltpartly-based-on-major-gen-portlocks-rudiments-of-geologygt/oclc/13511649/editions?start_edition=1&sd=asc&referer=di&se=yr&qt=sort_yr_asc&editionsView=true&fq= WorldCat editions]

4, 5

|1848

|Delvalle Varley

|Rudimentary Mineralogy

|[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/67896550 WorldCat editions]
[http://www.worldcat.org/title/rudimentary-treatise-on-mineralogy/oclc/8758137/editions?start_edition=1&sd=asc&referer=di&se=yr&qt=sort_yr_asc&editionsView=true&fq= Later editions] with James Dwight Dana, as Rudimentary Treatise on Mineralogy. Delvalle Varley was the second wife of John Varley, and daughter of Wilson Lowry;{{ODNBweb|id=28115|title=Varley, John|first= C. M.|last=Kauffmann}} her mother Rebekah Eliza Delvalle was a mineralogist.{{ODNBweb|id=17103|title=Lowry, Wilson|first= Mary|last=Guyatt}}

6

|1849

|Charles Tomlinson

|Rudimentary Mechanics

|[http://www.worldcat.org/title/rudimentary-mechanics-being-a-concise-exposition-of-the-general-principles-of-mechanical-science-and-their-applications/oclc/697598742/editions?start_edition=1&sd=asc&referer=di&se=yr&qt=sort_yr_asc&editionsView=true&fq= WorldCat editions]
[https://archive.org/stream/rudimentarymech00tomlgoog#page/n9/mode/2up archive.org Read Online]

7

|1848

|William Snow Harris

|Rudimentary Electricity

|[http://www.worldcat.org/title/rudimentary-electricity/oclc/34642976/editions?start_edition=1&sd=asc&referer=di&se=yr&qt=sort_yr_asc&editionsView=true&fq= WorldCat editions]
[https://books.google.com/books?id=bI0DAAAAQAAJ&q=William+Snow+Harris+Rudimentary Google Books, 1851 edition]

8, 9, 10

|1850

|William Snow Harris

|Rudimentary Magnetism

|[http://www.worldcat.org/title/rudimentary-magnetism/oclc/11266178/editions?start_edition=1&sd=asc&referer=di&se=yr&qt=sort_yr_asc&editionsView=true&fq= WorldCat editions]

11

|1852

|Edward Highton

|The Electric Telegraph: its history and progress

|Edward Highton was the brother of Henry Highton, and they both experimented with electricity, taking a particular interest in telegraphy.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofwireles00fahirich#page/40/mode/2up|title=A history of wireless telegraphy, 1838-1899: Including some bare-wire proposals for subaqueous telegraphs|year=1899}}
[http://www.worldcat.org/title/electric-telegraph-its-history-and-progress/oclc/1423965/editions?start_edition=1&sd=asc&referer=di&se=yr&qt=sort_yr_asc&editionsView=true&fq= WorldCat editions]
[https://archive.org/details/electrictelegrap00highrich archive.org]

12

|

|Tomlinson

|Pneumatics{{cite book|author=Robert Main|title=Rudimentary astronomy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TTpYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA157|year=1852|publisher=John Weale|page=157}}

13, 14, 15, 15*

|1848

|Henry Law

|Rudiments of Civil Engineering

|Henry Law (1824–1900) was a civil engineer, a pupil of Brunel much involved in the Thames Tunnel.{{Cite web|url=http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/docserver/fulltext/imotp.1900.18800.pdf?expires=1315476208&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=89B84A9A378F2FFBD423A6EF09D8CC0B|title=Obituary (PDF)|accessdate=2 March 2023}}
[http://www.worldcat.org/title/rudiments-of-civil-engineering/oclc/373952/editions?start_edition=1&sd=asc&referer=di&se=yr&qt=sort_yr_asc&editionsView=true&fq= WorldCat editions]
[https://archive.org/stream/rudimentscivile06burngoog#page/n7/mode/2up archive.org Read Online, 1852 edition]

16

|1852

|William Henry Leeds

|Rudimentary Architecture (Orders)

|[https://archive.org/details/rudimentaryarch00leedgoog Internet Archive]

17

|1849

|Thomas Talbot Bury

|Rudimentary Architecture (Styles)

|[http://www.worldcat.org/title/rudimentary-architecture-for-the-use-of-beginners-the-history-and-description-of-the-styles-of-architecture-of-various-countries-from-the-earliest-to-the-present-period/oclc/11366337/editions?start_edition=1&sd=asc&referer=di&se=yr&qt=sort_yr_asc&editionsView=true&fq= WorldCat editions]
[https://archive.org/details/rudimentaryarch00burygoog Internet Archive (2nd edition)]

18, 19

|

|Edward Lacy Garbett

|Architecture (Principles of Design)

|Garbett (died 1900) was son of the architect Edward William Garbett.{{cite book |author=Howard Colvin |author-link=Howard Colvin |title=A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840 |year=1978 |publisher=John Murray |isbn=0-7195-3328-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000colv/page/331 331] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000colv/page/331 }}

20, 21

|

|G. Pyne

|Perspective

|

22

|

|Edward Dobson

|Art of Building

| Dobson emigrated to New Zealand where he had a successful career as an engineer.

23, 24

|

|Edward Dobson

|Art of Tile-making, Brick-making

|

25, 26

|

|Edward Dobson

|Masonry and Stone-cutting

|

27, 28

|

|George Field

|Art of Painting

|

29

|

|G. R. Dempsey

|Art of Draining Lands

|

30

|

|Dempsey

|Art of Draining and Sewage of Towns and Buildings

|

31

|

|Burnell

|Art of Well-sinking and Boring

|

32

|

|J. F. Heather

|Art of the Use of Instruments

|

33

|1853

|Samuel Hughes

|A treatise on gas works

|Samuel Hughes (c. 1816–1870), son of the engineer Thomas Hughes,A. W. Skempton, A biographical dictionary of civil engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, p. 378 was a civil engineer and Fellow of the Geological Society.'Obituary - Samuel Hughes', Geological Magazine, vol. 9 (1872)
[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4661471 WorldCat edition]

45

|

|G. R. Burnell

|Limes, cements, mortars, concretes, mastics, plastering etc.

|George Rowdon Burnell (1814–1868) was a writer on architecture and engineering, "one of the very few who have united a Fellowship of the Royal Institution of British Architects with a Membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers".Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 31 (1871), pp. 211 –212
[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24049706 WorldCat edition]

61

|1850

|Thomas Baker

|Rudimentary treatise on mensuration

|

63-65

|1852-53

|G. H. Andrews

|Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering

|George Henry Andrews (1816–1898), though trained as an engineer, was better known as a marine watercolorist.Martin Hardie & Dudley Snelgrove, eds., Water-colour Painting in Britain: The Victorian period, 1966, p. 80
[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215622647 WorldCat edition]

66

|1852

|John Donaldson

|Rudimentary treatise on clay lands and loamy soils

|John Donaldson (1799–1876) described himself as a 'Professor of Botany'.ODNB He taught at the Agricultural Training College at Hoddesdon, established in the 1840s under the headmastership of William Haselwood.
[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11250054 WorldCat edition]

69-70

|

|Charles Child Spencer

|A rudimentary and practical treatise on music

|Charles Child Spencer (1797–1869) was an organist and choirmaster of St. James's Chapel, Clapton, London.Jamie Croy Kassler, The science of music in Britain, 1714–1830: a catalogue of writings, lectures, and inventions, Volume 2, 1979, p, 961
[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7142090 WorldCat edition]

80

|

|Robert Murray

|Rudimentary treatise on marine engines and steam vessels

|[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80159110 WorldCat edition]

83

|1853

|Editor Charles Tomlinson, materials by Alfred Charles Hobbs, compiler by George Dodd

|Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks

|{{cite book|author1=Alfred Charles Hobbs|author2=George Dodd|title=Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks|url=https://archive.org/details/rudimentarytreat00hobb|accessdate=10 May 2013|year=1853|publisher=J. Weale}}

99–100

|

|John Radford Young

|Tables intended to facilitate the operations of navigation and nautical astronomy

|John Radford Young (1799–1885) was professor of mathematics at Belfast College from 1833 to 1849.Norman St. John Stevas, ed., The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Letters, Harvard University Press, 1986, p.
[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6582915 WorldCat edition]

101

|1852

|W. S. B. Woolhouse

|The elements of differential calculus

|[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/496984742 WorldCat edition]

102

|1852

|Homersham Cox

|The integral calculus

|[https://archive.org/details/3910943.0001.001.umich.edu At archive.org]

|1852

|Robert Main

|Rudimentary Astronomy{{cite DNB|wstitle=Main, Robert|volume=35}}

132

|

|S. H. Brooks

|Erection of Dwelling-houses

|[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3181987 WorldCat edition]

File:Steam Navigation, Tredgold on the Steam Engine, Appendix A.jpg

One of John Weale's earliest books published was Steam Navigation, Tredgold on the Steam Engine Appendix A which was edited and published under direction from Thomas Tredgold himself. Steam Navigation, Tredgold on the Steam Engine, Appendix A was printed by W. Hughes, King’s Head Court, Gough Square.

Its cover price in August 1839 was twelve shillings.

  • John George Swindell, Well-digging, Boring, and Pump-work
  • Edmund Beckett Denison, Clock and watch making{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/bub_gb_F3sDAAAAYAAJ|title=A rudimentary treatise on clock and watch making: with a chapter on church clocks; and an account of the proceedings respecting the great Westminster clock|first=Edmund Beckett|last=Grimthorpe|date=2 March 1850|publisher=London, J. Weale|accessdate=2 March 2023|via=Internet Archive}}
  • Joseph Glynn, On the construction of cranes, and machinery for raising heavy bodies{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L90OAAAAYAAJ|title=Rudimentary treatise on the construction of cranes and machinery for raising heavy bodies|first=Joseph|last=Glynn|date=2 March 1849|publisher=J. Weale|accessdate=2 March 2023|via=Google Books}}
  • Joseph Glynn, On the power of water, as applied to drive flour mills, and to give motion to turbines and other hydrostatic engines{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/rudimentarytrea04glyngoog|title=Rudimentary treatise on the power of water, as applied to drive flour mills, and to give motion to turbines and other hydrostatic engines|first=Joseph|last=Glynn|date=2 March 1853|publisher=London, J. Weale|accessdate=2 March 2023|via=Internet Archive}}
  • Alan Stevenson, On the history, construction, and illumination of lighthouses{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SMHonupCh3MC|title=A Rudimentary Treatise on the History, Construction, and Illumination of Lighthouses|first=Alan|last=Stevenson|date=2 March 1850|publisher=J. Weale|accessdate=2 March 2023|via=Google Books}}
  • William Snow Harris, On Galvanism{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/rudimentarytrea00harrgoog|title=Rudimentary treatise on galvanism and the general principles of animal and voltaic electricity|first1=W. Snow (William Snow)|last1=Harris|first2=Robert|last2=Sabine|date=2 March 1869|publisher=London : Strahan & Co.|accessdate=2 March 2023|via=Internet Archive}}
  • Thomas Roger Smith (1861) AcousticsDictionary of National Biography, Smith, Thomas Roger (1830–1903), architect, by Paul Waterhouse. Published 1912.

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