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| 1812 births | |
| routledge, george | |
| 1888 deaths | |
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He gained his earliest experience of business with a bookseller at Carlisle . Proceeding to London in 1833, he started in business for himself as a bookseller in 1836, and as a publisher in 1843, making his first serious success by reprinting the Biblical commentaries of an American writer, Albert Barnes . His fame as a publisher, however, rests chiefly upon the enormous number of cheap books which he issued. A series of shilling volumes called the Railway Library was an immense success, including as it did Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin , and he also published in popular form some of the writings of Washington Irving , James Fenimore Cooper , Bulwer-Lytton and Benjamin Disraeli . He also brought out a number of shilling books in Routledge s Universal Library. After being styled Routledge, Warne & Routledge, his firm changed its name to that of George Routledge & Sons. A branch of the business was established in New York in 1854. EXTERNAL LINKS REFERENCES |
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