Author:Henry Benjamin Wheatley

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Henry Benjamin Wheatley
(1838–1917)

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British author, editor, and indexer; assistant secretary, Royal Society of Arts; president of the Pepys Club; vice-president of the Bibliographical Society

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "H. B. W.*"

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "H. B. W.*"

This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "H. B. W."

Works

"Folk-Lore Terminology" in The Folk-Lore Journal, 2 (1884)
"Celebrated Birthplaces: Samuel Johnson at Lichfield", in The Antiquary: 233–239. December 1884.
"Post-Restoration Quartos of Shakespeare's Plays", in The Library. Third Series. 4 (15): 237–269. July 1913.
Of Anagrams: A Monograph Treating of Their History from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (1862)
Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall, or, A ramble from Haymarket to Hyde Park (1870)
What is an Index? (1878)
Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In (1880; 5th ed. 1907)
The Bibliographer (1884) IA
How to Form a Library (2nd ed. 1886, 3rd ed. 1887)
The Dedication of Books to Patron and Friend (1887)
How to Catalogue a Library (1889)
Remarkable bindings in the British Museum (1889)
London Past and Present (1891)
Reliques of Old London (1896)
How to Make an Index (1902)
The Story of London (1904)
Literary Blunders (1905)

Contributions to EB1911

"London," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (History)

Contributions to DNB

"Fry, Danby Palmer," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.

As editor

Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britain Tongue by Alexander Hume (1865, 2nd ed. 1870)
Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson (1891) (transcription project)
Books in Chains by William Blades (1892) (includes Wheatley's introduction and biography of Blades)
Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys (1893)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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