Author:William West (1770-1854)

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William West
(1770–1854)

Works

• Tavern Anecdotes and Reminiscences of the origin of Signs, Clubs, Coffee Houses, Streets, City Companies, Wards, &c., by one of the Old School, London [1825], sm. 8vo (anonymous).
• Fifty Years' Recollections of an Old Bookseller, consisting of Anecdotes, Characteristic Sketches, and Original Traits and Eccentricities of Authors, Artists, Actors, Books, Booksellers, and of the Periodical Press for the last half-century, and an unlimited Retrospect, including some circumstances relative to the Letters of Junius, Cork, 1830, 8vo (portraits and plates); 2nd edit. 1st ser., to which is added some additional sketches of the late Captain Grose, London, 1837, 8vo
• The History, Topography, and Directory of Warwickshire, inclusive of some portions of the ancient histories of Rous, Camden, Speed, and Dugdale, Birmingham, 1830, 8vo (with etchings and map and Birmingham directory).
• Picturesque Views and Descriptions of Cities, Towns, Castles, and Mansions, and other Objects of interesting Features in Staffordshire and Shropshire, from Original Drawings taken expressly for this Work by Frederick Calvert, Birmingham, 1830–31, 2 vols. 4to.
• Three Hundred and Fifty Years' Retrospection of an old Bookseller, containing an Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing, &c., Cork, 1835, 8vo (plates, supplementary to No. 2).
• Description of some of the principal Paintings, Machinery, Models, Apparatus, and other Curiosities at the Leeds Public Exhibition, by W. West and E. Baines, junr., Leeds, 1839, 8vo.
• The Aldine Magazine of Biography, Bibliography, Criticism, and the Arts, vol. i. 1839, London (edited by West, who contributed ‘Letters to my Son at Rome,’ the magazine ran from 1 Dec. 1838 to June 1839).

Works about West

• "West, William (1770-1854)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.