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Random Recollections of an Old Publisher 2 Volume Paperback Set, Mixed media product Book

Random Recollections of an Old Publisher 2 Volume Paperback Set Mixed media product

Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries series

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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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