Archives of The Bodley Head Ltd c. 1910-1990

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Archives of The Bodley Head Ltd c. 1910-1990

c. 800 boxes

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6300577

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Hollis & Carter.

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Bodley Head Ltd, publishers 1887 - 1987

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T. Werner Laurie (Firm)

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The Bodley Head Ltd

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The Bodley Head was founded in 1887 as a partnership between Exeter bookseller Charles Elkin Mathews and John Lane. The new shop opened in September of that year at 6B Vigo Street. Over its door was a sign depicting Rembrandt's head, which had been the insignia of the previous business on the site. Since Mathews had associated his Exeter shop with Exeter-born Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, he and Lane decided to replace the head with that of Bodley, wh...

Machin David 1910-

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G.P. Putnam (Firm)

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Lane, John, 1854-1925

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Reinhardt Max b 1915

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Bowes & Bowes Publishers

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