Archives of Jonathan Cape Ltd 1914-1995

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Archives of Jonathan Cape Ltd 1914-1995

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c. 2000 boxes

eng,

Reading University : Special Collections Services

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Jonathan Cape (Firm)

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Jonathan Cape Ltd.

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Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879-1960) was the son of a builder who started as an apprentice in the bookselling trade. By 1919 he was in a position to start his own small publishing firm, Jonathan Page and Company (Page being his mother's maiden name). In 1920 he took on George Wren Howard as junior partner, and the firm of Jonathan Cape was launched in January 1921, with the publication of a new edition of Charles Montagu Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta, with an introduction by T.E....