author
Andrew White Tuer
1838–1900
A lively Victorian publisher and writer, he helped turn old chapbooks, children's books, and printing curiosities into treasures for new readers. His books mix a love of design, humor, and book history in a way that still feels fresh.
2 Audiobooks
Old London Street Cries and the Cries of To-day With Heaps of Quaint Cuts Including Hand-coloured Frontispiece
by Andrew White Tuer
Luxurious Bathing
by Andrew White Tuer
About the author
Born in Sunderland on December 24, 1838, Andrew White Tuer became a British publisher, writer, and printer best known for his work with Abraham Field in the firm Field & Tuer and its Leadenhall Press. Early in life he was orphaned, and later moved to London, where he first planned to study medicine before going into business instead.
Tuer built a reputation as an energetic and imaginative figure in Victorian publishing. He wrote on topics ranging from Francesco Bartolozzi to Japanese stencil designs and typography, and his press became especially known for illustrated books and facsimile reprints of eighteenth-century popular literature and children's books. He is also remembered as a pioneering collector of children's books and related printed ephemera.
He died in London on February 24, 1900, of pleurisy. Today he is remembered not just as a publisher, but as someone who delighted in the look, feel, and history of books, and who helped preserve older printed works for later generations.