George Smith: publisher.
This is a brief study of the character, and the professional career, of one of the most spectacular and prolific of all the huge medley of book-publishers in Victorian London. George Smith is perhaps today somewhat overshadowed by other famous name s. Nevertheless, in 1944, the Cambridge historian,...
| Publicado en: | Library Review Vol. 48; no. 6; pp. 290 - 299 |
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Emerald Publishing Limited
1999
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