The Six Inch Admiral, Dumpy Books For Children By George A Best - 1st Edition 1901
Item History & Price
The Larger Dumpy Books for Children. Large 8vo, grey cloth, gilt, originally priced at 2/6. Approximately 145 pages.
I. The Six Inch Admiral by George A. Best illustrated from (50) photographs by C. H. Park
A note about the publisher Grant Richards
Grant Richards was born on the 21st October, 1872 in Patrick, Lanarkshire. He was the first of two children of Franklin and Emily Richards. His father taught at Glasgow and Oxford University, which led to Grant atte...nding school at Langdale House in Oxford in 1880, and later the City of London School.
His uncle Grant Allen recognising Grant’s interest in print arranged for him to begin his career in a wholesale book company. Grant worked there until 1890 when his uncle obtained a new position for him on the Review of Reviews.
Grant formed his own publishing house in 1897 from offices at Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London. A year later, he married his first wife Elisina, and they had four children, Gerard, Geoffrey, Charles and Gioia. Grant and Elisina were divorced in 1914.
Grant published the first works of many authors, such as George Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton and Arnold Bennett, all of whom later moved to larger publishing houses to further their careers. The company also produced volumes of collected works of Shakespeare and Jane Austen as well as World Classics and the Dumpy Books for children.
An excellent EXTREMELY RARE book being the only one on Ebay at time of listing.
Not in first class class condition but actually not that bad either considering that this was originally intended for children and taking the age into account its a real gem.
It was also hard to find information relating to it online due to its rarity.
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