Background
Baxter was born at Rickhurst (Rykhurst), Alfold, Surrey, on 20 October 1781.
Baxter was born at Rickhurst (Rykhurst), Alfold, Surrey, on 20 October 1781.
Early in life he settled in Lewes as a bookseller and printer. Among the earliest of Baxter"s enterprises was the publication of a large quarto Bible, annotated by the Review John Styles, Doctor of Divinity, and illustrated with wood engravings.
This work, known as Baxter"s Bible, sold well, especially in America.
He died 12 November 1858. Baxter"s second son, George Baxter, was the inventor of the process of printing in oil colours.
The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge
The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge had a very extensive circulation. lieutenant 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.
Other authors included John Ellman.
He was an enthusiastic cricketer, 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 celebrated professional cricketer William Lambert of that name.