A Publisher and his Friends
A Publisher and his Friends
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USDThis two-volume account of the life and friendships of the publisher John Murray (1778–1843), told largely through his voluminous correspondence, was published in 1891 by Samuel Smiles (1812–1904), whose Lives of the Engineers, Self-Help, and other works are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Murray was only fifteen when his father, the founder of the famous firm, died, but after a period of apprenticeship he took sole control of the business, becoming the friend as well as the publisher of a range of the most important writers of the first half of the nineteenth century, in both literature and science. Perhaps his most famous author was Lord Byron, whose memoir of his own life, considered unpublishable, was burned in the fireplace at Murray's office in Albemarle Street, London. Volume 2 describes innovations including the famous travel guides, and ends with an assessment of Murray's publishing career.
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April 2014Paperback
9781108073929
570 pages
216 × 140 × 32 mm
0.72kg
1 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 20. Works published in 1817–18
- 21. Mr Southey and the Quarterly
- 22. Hallam, Basil Hall, Crabbe, etc.
- 23. Memoirs of Lady Hervey, Horace Walpole, Belzoni, etc.
- 24. Washington Irving, Ugo Foscolo, Lady Caroline Lamb, etc.
- 25. Gifford's retirement and death
- 26. The Representative
- 27. Mr Lockhart as editor of the Quarterly, etc.
- 28. Head, Disraeli, Lockhart, etc.
- 29. Napier's Peninsular War, etc.
- 30. Moore's Life of Byron
- 31. Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas Carlyle, Sir Francis Head
- 32. Various authors' correspondence
- 33. Literary ladies
- 34. Scrope, Hallam, Gladstone, etc.
- 35. Murray's 'Handbooks'
- 36. George Borrow, Richard Ford, etc.
- 37. John Murray as a publisher
- Index.
