244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
This book is the history of a publisher's imprint and tells two connected stories: one about the personalities of a group of London publishers and the impression their characters made on the people who knew them: the other about a remarkable collection of books whose title pages bore those publishers' names over the course of four decades in the Victorian age. It is both a case study in... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1: Henry S. King: businessman of letters Chapter 2: Charles Kegan Paul, pastor to publisher Chapter 3: Kegan Paul, Trench - the partnership with a reputation for serious and beautiful books, 1877-1888 Chapter 4: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tribner & Co. Ltd.: a financial crisis and a revolution in management, 1889-1911 Chapter 5: The Kegan Paul legacy: the making, consolidation and survival of a reputation for serious books Notes
Biography
Leslie Howsam Department of History, University of Windsor
