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He was born in 1713 in Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, the son of a farmer, Robert Newbery, but other members of his family were active in the publishing business.
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He was born in 1713 in Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, the son of a farmer, Robert Newbery, but other members of his family were active in the publishing business.
Newbery received a modest education in his home district, learning only the basics traditionally thought necessary for a farmer.
At the age of 16, he was apprenticed to a printer in the town of Reading, nine miles from his home.
The success of his work was due in part to the rise of the British middle class during this period and the increased amount of money and leisure time they were able to spend on their children.
Another factor was a changing philosophy about the role and nature of children; rather than being looked upon as miniature adults, children were beginning to be recognized as having interests, energies, and attention spans that were greatly different from those of adults.
There he learned the skills of the printing trade from William Carnan and assisted in the production of Carnan's newspaper, the Reading Mercury.
When Carnan died in 1737, the 24-year-old Newbery inherited half of his printing business, sharing the company with Carnan's brother.
Newbery took responsibility for Carnan's children, and eventually had three of his own.
The paper's success may have been in part due to Newbery's active interest in promoting his paper and investigating new markets and business possibilities.
It was in 1740 that Newbery published his first book, beginning the career for which he would be best remembered.
For much of his life, however, a large part of his income was not from his publishing activities but from his side business ventures.
This marked the beginning of Newbery's most productive years as a publisher.
In London, he began the writing and selling of children's books, a market in which there was a growing demand for materials, particularly during the Christmas holidays.
The books he produced were aimed both at the amusement and education of children.
His first success in this area was the 1744 book A Pretty Little Pocket Book, a high-quality work that featured an entertaining and colorful style, including expensive copperplate engravings and a gilt cover.
In 1746, Newbery published two more books directed at the education of children, Circle of the Sciences: Writing and Circle of the Sciences: Arithmetic.
An introduction to the ideas of the English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton were presented in the 1761 work, The Newtonian System of Philosophy Adapted to the Capacities of Young Gentlemen and Ladies … By Tom Telescope, popularly known as simply Tom Telescope.
This was another great success for Newbery, going through at least ten printings for a total of around 30, 000 books by 1800.
These authors and others contributed to Newbery's numerous newspapers in London and the provinces.
One such paper was The Universal Chronicle or Weekly Gazette, which he founded in 1758; the paper published a number of famous works by Johnson, including "The Idler, " "The Rambler, " and "The Lives of the Poets. "
The Public Ledger, initiated in 1760, featured Goldsmith's "A Citizen of the World" in its first issue.
Newbery also published Goldsmith's book The Vicar of Wakefield in 1766.
The inexpensive, attractively colored books in the Juvenile Library published by Newbery represented a great advance in publishing because they displaced earlier crudely printed and inferior pamphlets known as chapbooks.
His contributions to the promotion of children's literature resulted in similar ventures by other companies, however, insuring a continuing commitment to the field.
More than 150 years after the publisher's death, the Newbery Award for children's literature was established in 1922 by the American Library Association, honoring Newbery's pioneering work in presenting the first materials specifically designed for the amusement and entertainment of children.
His publishing business was later on carried on by his son, Francis Newbery, and later by one of Newbery's nephews, then the nephew's wife.
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His son Francis, his nephew Francis and Francis's wife Elizabeth and his grandson Francis Power continued the business after his death.