Charles Taylor (engraver)

Charles Taylor (1756–1823) was an English engraver, known also as a man of letters and biblical scholar.

He was educated at a grammar school at Brentwood in Essex, and on completing his fifteenth year was articled to his father as an engraver, and studied under Francesco Bartolozzi.

[1] Taylor initially adopted the standard practice for engravers, of executing ornamental proofs.

[1][2] In later life Taylor devoted concentrated on a revision of Antoine Augustin Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, which he began to publish anonymously in 1797.

He was also the author of:[1] Taylor edited the Literary Annual Register, London, 1808, afterwards merged in the Literary Panorama, and translated the Adventures of Telemachus (London, 1792) from Les Aventures de Télémaque of François Fénelon.