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Article: Kegan Paul: a Victorian imprint.
- Article from:
- Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Leslie Howsam. Kegan Paul: A Victorian Imprint. Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press and Kegan Paul, 1999. 218 pp. $45.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8020-4126-4.
In Kegan Paul: A Victorian Imprint, Leslie Howsam, an associate professor of history at the University of Windsor, sets out to tell `two connected stories: one about the personalities of a group of London publishers and the impression their character 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' (1). Howsam succeeds admirably in both tasks as she interweaves ...