Macmillan: A Publishing Tradition, 1843-1970

NICOLAS BARKER Editor of The Book Collector BILL BELL Co-Director, Centre for the History of the Book and Lecturer in English at the University of Edinburgh MICHAEL BOTT Keeper of Archives and Manuscripts, University of Reading Library RIMI B. CHATTERJEE Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur SIMON ELIOT Professor of Publishing and Printing History, University of Reading WARWICK GOULD Professor of English, University of London JOHN HANDFORD Retired; previously Archivist and Librarian for Macmillan MICHAEL MILLGATE University Professor of English Emeritus, University of Toronto DONALD E. MOGGRIDGE Professor of Economics, University of Toronto FRANCES SPALDING Art Historian, Critic and Biographer MICHAEL WACE Worked in publishing for over forty years, most of them with Macmillan, before retiring in 1994 GEORGE WORTH Professor Emeritus of English, University of Kansas

List of Plates Foreword: J.Sutherland Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations Introduction Macmillan Biographies, 1843-1965, and Chronology: Compiled by J.Handford 'To you in your vast business': Some Features of the Quantitative History of Macmillan, 1843-91; S.Eliot From Parnassus to Grub Street: Matthew Arnold and the House of Macmillan; B.Bell Thomas Hardy and the House of Macmillan: A Comedy in Chapters; M.Millgate A Note on 'Macmillan's Magazine'; Margaret Oliphant and 'Macmillan's Magazine'; G.Worth 'Letters to Macmillan': An Addendum. Sir Samuel White Baker's Letters to Macmillan; M.Bott 'And Sacred is the Latest Word': Macmillan and Tennyson's 'final' text; M.Millgate Macmillan in India: A Short Account of the Company's Trade with the Subcontinent, of the People who Traded and the Goods they Sold, of the Problems they Faced, the Solutions they Found and the Profits they Made; R.B.Chatterjee Letters from America: The Bretts and the Macmillan Company in New York; E.James W.B.Yeats on the Road to St. Martin's Street, 1900-1917; W.Gould A Risk-Bearing Author: Maynard Keynes and His Publishers; D.E.Moggridge 'Not a Tear or a Prayer in it': Gwen Raverat's Illustrated Edition of The Runaway ; F.Spalding From Carroll to Crompton: The Work of a Children's Publisher; M.Wace Macmillan: or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since; N.Barker Index