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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Calder, Rachel

Titel

MACMILLAN & CO IN CAMBRIDGE 1843-1858: A PROVINCIAL START-UP IN THE VICTORIAN BOOK TRADE

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• Publishing history, 2017-01, Vol.77, p.43-4

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Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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• The sources used in the study are mainly from the vast, 'unusually intact' Macmillan archive at the British Library, and the small cache of documents in the Bowes and Bowes papers which contain material from the start-up period and which are part of the W. H. Smith archive, now at Reading University.3 This small collection includes several day journals, account and production books as well as catalogues and-when considered alongside material in the published memoirs of both brothers and the correspondence with authors, printers, and binders collected in the Macmillan archive-help to shed light on the development of the fledgling company as it established itself in Cambridge. [...]very first D & A Macmillan publication was a training manual for teachers, called The Philosophy of Training: with suggestions on the necessity of normal schools for teachers to the wealthier classes, and strictures on the prevailing mode of teaching languages by A. R. Craig, and which was 96 pages long.54 The brothers could be reasonably certain that there would be a demand for this kind of book. Bookshop expenses listed in Appendices 1.3 and 1.5 included items such as rent on the Trinity Street buildings; gas and household expenses; municipal rates, Poor Law payments and property taxes; life insurance for Daniel Macmillan; small sums of living expenses for the brothers; stock bought from publishers; bindery expenses; wages for staff; and, one of the main sources of Daniel Macmillan's anxiety, the repayments of loans, including the sums owed to Mr Barclay.84 The ledgers listed small sums for 'wages' from petty cash such as ? Robert Bowes counted 26 booksellers and stationers in the 1847 Kelly's Directory. 22 Macmillan Archive, ADD MSS 55109, 24 Aug 1843, p.44v and p.44r. 23 Hughes, p.164-5. 24 Macmillan Archive, ADD MSS 55109, 24 August 1843, p.51r. 25 Macmillan Archive, ADD MSS 55109, 24 August 1843, p.51r. 26 Sheldon Rothblatt, review of The Cambridge Apostles: The Early Years by Peter Allen in Victorian Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1980, 278-80, p.280. 27 Robin Pearson and David Richardson, 'Business Networking in the Industrial Revolution', The Economic History Review, new series, Vol. 54, No. 4, 2001, pp.657-79, p.659. 28 Pearson and Richardson, p.673. 29 Macmillan Archive, ADD MSS 55109, 28 August 1843, p.56. 30 Hughes, p.149. 31 David McKitterick, A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume Two Scholarship and Commerce 1698-1872 (Cambridge, 1998), p.388. 32 Morgan, p.30. 33 McKitterick, p.387. 34 Reading University, The Archive for British Printing and Publishing, W. H. Smith Archive, Bowes and Bowes Papers, [hereinafter cited as WHS/BAB], WHS/BAB/34, D & A Macmillan's Miscellaneous List of Books on Sale at 17 Trinity Street and 57 Aldersgate Street, London, 1844 35 WHS/BAB/34, pp. 1, 2, 3 and 7.