Anthony "Tony" Byatt (23 February 1928 – 17 September 2014)[1] was an English postcard publisher, photographer and writer. Byatt's works cover a broad range of subjects: reproduction of historical photographs and picture postcards,[2][3][4] Bible translation,[5] New Testament metaphors,[6] water systems and population of Jerusalem,[7][8][9] human body and clothing.[10]

Anthony Byatt
Born(1928-02-23)23 February 1928
London, UK
Died17 September 2014(2014-09-17) (aged 86)
Occupations
  • Bible collector
  • postcard publisher
  • photographer
  • antiquarian
  • publisher
  • editor
  • writer
Organizations
  • Golden Age Books
  • International Society of Bible Collectors (ISBC)
MovementJehovah's Witnesses
SpouseSue
Children2
Websitegoldenagebooks.org

Life

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Private life

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Byatt and his wife had two daughters.[11]

Religious activity

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Byatt joined Jehovah's Witnesses in c. 1939,[12] and he was appointed to special service within the denomination by 1956.[13] Apart from preaching, his activity included collecting books for the library of the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead with future Governing Body member Albert Schroeder.[14]

Golden Age Books

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Byatt directed the publishing company Golden Age Books, which was based at his residency in Malvern.[15] Byatt had been an antiquarian bookseller since 1981[11] and Golden Age Books also dealt in second-hand literature.[16]

Writings

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He published a book on the interpretation of New Testament metaphors in 1995.[6]

In 2004, Byatt and other Jehovah's Witness writers published the anthology 'Your Word is Truth', Essays in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1950, 1953), which included essays defending the New World Translation against criticism from non-Witnesses and a bibliography of works on the translation.[17][18][5][19]

As a member of the International Society of Bible Collectors (ISBC), Byatt was an Associate Editor of The Bible Collector, changed to Bible Collectors' World in 1985.[20][21][11]

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Byatt, Anthony (1974). Picture Postcards and Their Publishers: An Illustrated Account Identifying Britain's Major Postcard Publishers 1894 to 1939 and the Great Variety of Cards They Issued. London: Golden Age Postcard Books. ISBN 978-0-9506212-0-3. OCLC 641778625.
  • ———— (1982). Collecting Picture Postcards: An Introduction. Malvern, Worcestershire: Golden Age Postcard Books. ISBN 978-0-9506212-1-0.
  • ———— (1995). New Testament Metaphors: Illustrations in Word and Phrase. The Pentland Press. ISBN 978-1-85821-239-5.
  • ———— (1997). Building a Theocratic Library. Malvern, Worcestershire: Golden Age Books. ISBN 978-0-95062-123-4.
  • ————; Flemings, Hal, eds. (2004). 'Your Word Is Truth', Essays in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1950, 1953). Malvern, Worcestershire: Golden Age Books. ISBN 978-0-95062-126-5.
  • ———— (2012). Reminiscences Towards a History of Jehovah's Witness in London–1881 to 1977. Exeter: Golden Age Books. ISBN 978-0-95577-504-8.

Articles

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References

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  1. ^ Ancestry.
  2. ^ Twyman 2018, p. 764.
  3. ^ Samuel 2012, p. 347.
  4. ^ Gillen 2023, p. 35.
  5. ^ a b Williams 2006.
  6. ^ a b Lim 2017, p. 6.
  7. ^ Ong 2015, p. 165.
  8. ^ Wilkinson 1974, p. 51.
  9. ^ Spigel 2012, p. 79.
  10. ^ Sandnes 2002, p. 5.
  11. ^ a b c Golden Age Books.
  12. ^ Byatt & Flemings 2004, p. 109.
  13. ^ "Ordained Ministers Appointed to Special Service". 1956 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses. Brooklyn: Watch Tower Society. 1955. p. 49.
  14. ^ Byatt 1997b, p. 8.
  15. ^ Paul 2009, p. 201.
  16. ^ Byatt, Anthony. "Welcome to Golden Age Books". Golden Age Books. Archived from the original on February 7, 2014.
  17. ^ Byatt 2005.
  18. ^ Lundquist.
  19. ^ Lang 2006, p. 14.
  20. ^ "12 Bible Collectors' World journals 1960s-80s - Watchtower Jehovah's Witnesses". WorthPoint. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
  21. ^ "Handling The Tetragrammaton - Anthony Byatt 1987 Watchtower Jehovah's Witnesses". WorthPoint. Retrieved May 8, 2024.

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