CiNii 図書 - Kegan Paul a Victorian imprint : publishers, books and cultural history

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 nineteenth and early twentieth-century publishing and a contribution to the method and theory of the history of the book. The intention is to demonstrate how that history, sometimes characterized as the study of authorship, reading and publishing, can benefit from a focus on the publishers whose purpose it was to bring together the demands *of readers with the preoccupations of authors. Charles Kegan Paul is only the best-remembered' of the publishers whose lives and work are chronicled in the pages that follow.

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

巻冊次: : University of Toronto ISBN 9780802041265

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The Kegan Paul imprint was created and its reputation for a distinguished list of titles established during a forty-year period from 1871 to 1911. Several publishers, and their firms, were involved in the development of the imprint during this period, beginning with Henry S. King and Company, and following in 1877 with Charles Kegan Paul and his partner Alfred Chenevix Trench. A financial crisis in 1889 forced an amalgamation with two other businesses and the new firm changed managers periodically until George Routledge and Son took over the business in 1911.Leslie Howsam combines biography and analytic bibliography in her study of the Kegan Paul imprint to demonstrate the value of publishing history as a contribution to the scholarly study of the book. Basing her research on intensive work in the company's surviving archives and supplemented by extensive library work with the actual books, Howsam looks at the wide range of significant titles published for the imprint. In addition, she reconstructs a biographical and business history of the firm based on published and unpublished accounts of the individuals involved, including the publishers and their families, and looks at the effects of changing business practices. The focus of Victorian Imprint Kegan Paul is the duality of imprint: the publisher's imprint upon a list of books, and publisher's personalities, the imprint of their taste and judgment on the culture in which they lived.

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