Samuel Smiles

A Publisher and His Friends 2 Volume Set

Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843

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Produktbeschreibung

An 1891 two-volume account of the life of the publisher John Murray (1778-1843), told largely through his correspondence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1092
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1370g
• ISBN-13: 9781108073936
• ISBN-10: 110807393X
• Artikelnr.: 40758739

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 1: Preface
1. John MacMurray or Murray
2. John Murray (II)
3. Murray and Constable
4. Marmion, Domestic Cookery, the Edinburgh Review
5. Origin of the Quarterly Review
6. George Ellis and William Gifford
7. The Quarterly launched
8. Publishing business
9. Murray and Gifford
10. Lord Byron's works, 1812 to 1814
11. Mr Murray's removal to 50 Albemarle Street
12. Murray's drawing-room
13. Charles Maturin
14. Thomas Campbell, John Cam Hobhouse, James Hogg
15. Lord Byron's dealings with Mr Murray
16. Lord Byron's dealings with Mr Murray (cont.)
17. Byron's death and the destruction of his memoirs
18. Blackwood and Murray
19. Termination of partnership between Murray and Blackwood. Volume 2: 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.