Alexander Thom
Overview page. Subjects: Bibliography — European History.
(1801–79) Printer
for the Post Office in Ireland (1824); for royal commissions in Ireland (1838); and of the Dublin Gazette (1851). With Dublin’s largest printing works from the...
Arthur Barnett Spingarn
Overview page. Subjects: United States History — Bibliography.
(1878–1971) American book collector.
Educated at Columbia, he became an early civil rights lawyer. His legal concerns led to an interest in collecting black literature produced...
biographical dictionary
Overview page. Subjects: Bibliography — Australasian and Pacific History.
Begin with Men of the Time in Australia, Victorian Series, published in Melbourne in 1878 by McCarron, Bird & Co. J. Henniker Heaton, English journalist and postal reformer, published...
Fleet Street
Overview page. Subjects: Bibliography — British History.
(London) was for centuries the home of the newspaper industry and the name is still used to describe the national press. It ran from the Fleet river, a noisome ditch, to the...
mandate
Overview page. Subjects: European History — Bibliography.
Deriving from the Latin mandatus (‘command’), the term ‘mandate’ means a letter, especially from a royal or papal authority, giving orders or instructions to someone.
McGuffey Readers
Overview page. Subjects: Bibliography — United States History.
In 1834 or 1835, the Cincinnati publisher Winthrop B. Smith hired William Holmes McGuffey (1800–1873), professor of ancient languages at Miami University (Ohio), to prepare a graduated...
National Archives
Overview page. Subjects: Bibliography — History of the Americas.
‘The National Archives’ is the name adopted in 2003–4 for a bureaucratic body administering both the Public Record Office (PRO), which moved to Kew, in south London, in 1997, and ...
proclamation
Overview page. Subjects: Bibliography — British History.
Were part of the royal prerogative to deal with emergencies or to make enactments while Parliament was not in being. Under the Tudors they dealt with a large variety of matters—the sale of...
Simms & M'Intyre
Overview page. Subjects: Bibliography — European History.
(1806–70),
printer, bookseller, and publisher in Belfast and London. Starting in 1847, its low cost, mass circulation, Parlour Library series revolutionized the market for fiction...
Society of Antiquaries
Overview page. Subjects: Bibliography — British History.
Founded in 1707 by a group of like‐minded men meeting weekly at the Bear tavern in the Strand (London), it has had continuous existence since 1717. Gaining a royal charter (1751), then...
