[1] In April 1828 Timperley gave two lectures on the art of printing to the Warwick and Leamington Literary Institution.
[2] He accepted a post with Fisher & Jackson, publishers, of London, and remarried after the death of his first wife.
[2] In 1833 he produced Songs of the Press and other Poems relating to the art of Printing, original and selected; also Epitaphs, Epigrams, Anecdotes, Notices of early Printing and Printers, London, and an enlarged edition of the poetical portion appeared in 1845; some of the verse is by Timperley himself.
[3] It was followed by A Dictionary of Printers and Printing, with the Progress of Literature, ancient and modern, Bibliographical Illustrations, London, 1839.
The remaindered stock of these two works was purchased by H. G. Bohn, who issued the two together, with some additions, under the title of Encyclopædia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote.