Kegan Paul: A Victorian Imprint

by Leslie Howsam

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0710306059
• ISBN13: 9780710306050
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"