 He referenced James Bell's "Compendious view of universal history and literature, in a series of tables" (1820) and adopted some of the typographical conventions of Bell.Together Bell and Talboys are considered to have innovated influentially, in the use of bold type for cueing, in a way that carried over into textbook design.Talboys made translations of Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren's "Researches into the Politics, Intercourse, and Trade of the Carthaginians, Ethiopians, and Egyptians" (1832) (from the "Ideen" of Heeren) and "Manual of the Political System of Europe" (1834).