Random Recollections of an Old Publisher
2 Volume Paperback Set
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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
- Author: William Tinsley
- Date Published: March 2010
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- isbn: 9781108009218
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William Tinsley (1830–1900) was a noted Victorian publisher whose catalogue included works by such celebrated novelists as Thomas Hardy and Wilkie Collins. This two-volume autobiography, first published in 1900, traces his life from his rural childhood to the establishment and rise of the Tinsley Brothers company in 1858, and its later collapse. Each chapter is divided into a series of brief sketches of authors and other contemporaries. The book describes the personalities Tinsley encountered, and also includes observations on Victorian transport and commerce, and playwrights, actors and theatres (including Sadler's Wells). Based on Tinsley's personal recollections, and incorporating letters as well as anecdotal information, these volumes will fascinate anyone interested in the history of publishing and the development of the nineteenth-century novel.
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- Date Published: March 2010
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108009218
- length: 748 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 45 mm
- weight: 1.03kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume I:
1. On Highgate Hill
2. A budding Bloomfield
3. Thomas and Robert Cooper
4. Mr Mudie and the Library Company
5. Joseph Hatton the novelist
6. Harrison Ainsworth
7. Mr George Meredith
8. Robert Crawford, of Edinburgh
9. H.S . Leigh
10. H.J . Byron
11. James Grant the journalist
12. Charles James Matthews
13. William Black
14. Shirley Brooks
15. A sad end to a merry party
16. J. L. Toole at the Coventry Street picture shop
Volume II:
1. J. L. Toole matter continued
2. Toole's conjuring and other conjurors
3. The Hon. Lewis Wingfield
4. Last years of Vauxhall Gardens
5. 'I am not a Bohemian'
6. The founding of the Savage Club
7. Harry Cox
8. Sadler's Wells Theatre
9. The Eagle tavern and Grecian Theatre
10. Some dramatic books and critics
11. Mr and Mrs Henry Sampson
12. William Winter
13. Alfred Thomson Greenacre
14. Mr Fred Horner
15. Henri van Laun
16. Richard Dowling.
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