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Article: Kegan Paul, a Victorian Imprint: Publishers, Books and Cultural History.
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Frank Cass & Company Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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LESLIE HOWSAM, Kegan Paul, a Victorian Imprint: Publishers, Books and Cultural History (London: Kegan Paul International and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xxvi + 218; illus. ISBN 071030605 9, [pound]35).
This book traces the history of the Victorian publishing firm that began when Henry S. King, whose varied business experience included work as a partner in the publishers and East India agents and bankers Smith, Elder & Co., set up his own publishing concern in 1871. Ill-health constrained him to sell this business in 1877 to Charles Kegan Paul, a former Anglican clergyman who had been acting as his manager and literary adviser for sine time. ...