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See also:GEORGE See also:ROUTLEDGE (1812—1888)
, See also:English publisher, was See also:born at See also:Brampton in See also:Cumberland on the 23rd of See also:September 1812
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He gained his earliest experience of business with a bookseller at See also:Carlisle
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Proceeding to See also: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 See also:American writer, See also:Albert See also:Barnes
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His fame as a publisher, however, rests chiefly upon the enormous number of cheap books which he issued
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A See also:series of See also:shilling volumes called the " Railway Library " was an immense success, including as it did Mrs Harriet See also:Beecher See also:Stowe's See also:Uncle Tom's See also:Cabin, and he also published in popular
See also:farm some of the writings of See also:Washington See also:Irving, Fenimore See also: |
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