John Baxter (1781–1858) was an English printer and publisher.

Life

Baxter was born at Rickhurst (Rykhurst),

Alfold Alfold is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England on the West Sussex border. Alfold is a dispersed or polyfocal village in the Green Belt, which is buffered from all other settlements. The Greensand Way runs north of the village along ...

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, on 20 October 1781. Early in life he settled in

Lewes Lewes () is the county town of East Sussex, England. The town is the administrative centre of the wider Lewes (district), district of the same name. It lies on the River Ouse, Sussex, River Ouse at the point where the river cuts through the Sou ...

as a bookseller and printer. With his youngest son, William Baxter, he started the ''Sussex Agricultural Express''. He was an enthusiastic

cricket Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...

er, and the joint—if not the sole—author of the first ever book of rules for that sport, the first ever published, named ''Lambert's Cricketer's Guide'', after the professional cricketer William Lambert. Baxter died 12 November 1858. His second son, George Baxter, was the inventor of the process of printing in oil colours.

Baxter's Bible

Among the earliest of Baxter's enterprises was the publication of a large quarto Bible, annotated by the Rev.

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, D.D., and illustrated with wood engravings. This work, known as ''Baxter's Bible'', sold well, especially in America.

''The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge''

''The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge'' had a very extensive circulation. It was published in 1830, with a second edition in 1832. George Sinclair wrote an article ''On the cultivation of the natural grasses'' for the publication. Baxter, J. 1830 Library of Agricultural & Horticultural Knowledge, 217 Other authors included

John Ellman John Ellman (17 October 1753 – 22 November 1832) was an English farmer and stock breeder who developed the Southdown breed of sheep. Biography Early life John Ellman was born on 17 October 1753 in Hartfield, Sussex. He moved with his fami ...

References

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Baxter, John 1781 births 1858 deaths English printers English publishers (people) People from Lewes 19th-century British publishers (people) 19th-century English businesspeople