Hertfordshire, Robert Surtees's Durham, James Raine's North Durham, Colt Hoare's Wiltshire, Joseph Hunter's South Yorkshire, George Baker's Northamptonshire, Thomas Dunham Whitaker's Whalley and Craven, and George Lipscomb's Buckinghamshire. He left large printed and manuscript collections on English topography. His last literary undertaking was the completion (vol. vii. in 1848 and vol. viii. in 1856) of his father's Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, the sequel to the Literary Anecdotes. William Bray refers to the accuracy of Nichols in revising the proof-sheets of the second volume of his edition of Owen Manning's History of Surrey. Nichols circulated proposals in 1811 for printing the third and fourth volumes of John Hutchins's Dorset, of which the stock of the first three volumes had been lost in the fire on his father's premises in 1808. The fourth volume appeared in 1815, with his name on the title-page jointly with that of Richard Gough. In 1818 he published the autobiography of the bookseller John Dunton, which had furnished materials for the Literary Anecdotes of his father. Other works were: A brief Account of the Guildhall of the City of London, London, 1819. Account of the Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of St. Katharine, near the Tower, London, 1824,(based on the history of Andrew Ducarel, 1782, with additional plates). Historical Notices of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, London, 1836, (based on the publications of J. Britton and J. Rutter, with plates from the work of Rutter). Catalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, co. Wilts, with an Account of the Museum of British Antiquities, privately printed, London, 1840. "Notices of the Library at Stourhead" were contributed by Nichols to the Wiltshire and Natural History Magazine, 1855, vol. 2. Nichols also edited: Joseph Cradock's Memoirs, vols. iii. and iv. 1828; Anecdotes of William Hogarth, 1833, with forty-eight plates, a compilation from his father's ‘Biographical Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth’; John Thomas Smith, Cries of London, 1839; and History and Antiquities of the Abbey of St. Edmunds Bury by Richard Yates, second edition, London, 1843, 2 parts. Family He married, in 1805, Eliza Baker (d. 1846), by whom he had fourteen children; of these there survived three sons: John Gough Nichols, Robert Cradock Nichols (d. 1892), and Francis Morgan Nichols (b. 1826); and four daughters. The poet and artist Bowyer Nichols was his great-grandson. References Attribution 1779 births 1863 deaths English printers English antiquarians 18th-century antiquarians 19th-century antiquarians