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J.M. Dent & Sons records

Title: J.M. Dent & Sons records

J.M. Dent & Sons, book publishers of London, England, was founded in 1888 by Joseph Malaby Dent (1859-1926). The company achieved success by selling cheap editions of the classics to the working class. Dent's first major production, the Temple Shakespeare series, was established in 1894, followed in 1906 by Everyman's Library, a series of 1000 volumes. Eventually, Dent's publishing activities expanded to include textbooks, children's books, educational books, self-help books, and travel guides. Dent remained in the forefront of the publishing field by expanding sales to foreign markets, including Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States. Records include editorial department correspondence with authors, publishing companies, and literary agents; drafts of manuscripts published by Dent; illustrative material used in Dent publications; editorial reports and recommendations; author contracts; copyright agreements; and royalty payments. There are also directors' files containing editorial and personal correspondence; financial materials, including ledgers containing company accounts, cash books, balance sheets, payroll records, equipment inventories, warehouse stock books, and book sales figures; intra-office, memoranda regarding the production of books; legal correspondence and claim statements; material relating to publishing companies that were either affiliated with or subsidiaries of J.M. Dent & Sons; and other materials, including agreements with non-affiliated organizations, address books, work journals, visitors' books, and photographs of Dent buildings and employees. Author files (nine groupings by author name), Company Files, Editor Files, and Serial Files are cataloged separately. Note that files are incomplete, since many items of significant commercial value were sold piecemeal in the 1980s and some files from later years are held by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, which took over the Dent firm in 1986.

ArchivalResource: About 210000 items (150.0 linear ft.)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/11043/ View

Graves, Robert, 1895-1985. Robert Graves collection of papers, 1914-1975.

Title: Robert Graves collection of papers, 1914-1975.

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, notebooks, legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works.

ArchivalResource: 1,194 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144652072 View

Robert Graves collection of papers, 1914-1975

Title: Robert Graves collection of papers 1914-1975

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, notebooks, legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works.

ArchivalResource: 1,123 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19197 View

Berlin, Sven. Alfred Wallis [corrected draft manuscript], ca. 1943-1948.

Title: Alfred Wallis [corrected draft manuscript], ca. 1943-1948.

Draft ms. of Berlin's biography of the Cornish primitive painter Alfred Wallis (pub. 1949) with numerous corrections and additions to the text, and a number of annotations by Ben Nicolson, most of which were subsequently incorporated into the final published version.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (150 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82675524 View