Andrew White Tuer

Andrew White Tuer (1838–1900) was a publisher, writer and printer.

In 1856 Tuer went to London with the plan of becoming a doctor. After changing his mind he went to a merchant's office.

Around 1862 Tuer set himself up as a stationer. In 1863 he was joined in his venture by Abraham Field and the company became Field and Tuer. The company's first book was published in 1870. The firm became established for its illustrated books and especially for reprints of old children's books.

In 1891 Field died and Tuer formed a limited company which he renamed Leadenhall Press Ltd.

Tuer was a keen antiquarian and was always conscious that he should document those aspects of London life that he felt were disappearing.

Tuer is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

The Dictionary of National Biography describes him as an 'omnivorous collector", who filled his house in Campden Hill Road Notting Hill with "books, engravings, clocks, china, silver and bric-a-brac of the most varied description". As an author, his magnum opus was "Bartolozzi and His Works" (1882, 2nd edition 1885) in two quarto volumes which the DNB justly describes as "discursive and unsystematic". He became an FSA in 1890.

Miscellaneous facts

Tuer's wife was Thomasine Louisa (Louttit).

Bibliography

* "History of the horn-book"
* "Pages and pictures from forgotten children's books"
* [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.TuerOldLdn "Old London street cries and the cries of to-day,: With heaps of quaint cuts including hand-coloured frontispiece"] , digitized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Digital Collections Center.
* "Lvxrious (sic) bathing;: A sketch"
* "The follies and fashions of our grandfathers (1807): Embellished with ... plates including ladies' and gentlemen's dress ... sporting and coaching sce ... fanciful prints, portraits of celebrities, ..."
* (1893) "A History of English Lotteries, Now for the First Time Written."
* "Bartolozzi and His Works" (1882, 2nd edition 1885) in two quarto volumes