The records of Bradbury and Evans and of Bradbury, Agnew and Co. 1830-1972

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The records of Bradbury and Evans and of Bradbury, Agnew and Co. 1830-1972

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Bradbury and Evans (printers : active 1830-1872)

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Bradbury and Evans was founded in Bouverie Street, London in 1830 by William Bradbury (1800-1869) and Frederick Mullett Evans (1803-1870). In 1833 the firm moved to Lombard Street. Initially the firm specialised in legal and parliamentary printing but began printing newspapers and journals, including Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. The firm expanded rapidly and soon employed 200 compositors. In the autumn of 1841 the newly-established magazine Punch approached Bradbury an...

Bradbury, Agnew and Co (publishers : active 1872-1969)

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Bradbury, Agnew and Co. was founded in 1872 when Frederick Moule Evans (1832-1902) left Bradbury, Evans and Co., the firm he had jointly managed with William Hardwick Bradbury (1832-1892) since 1865 when their fathers, who had founded the firm in 1830 as Bradbury and Evans, retired. The Agnew art dealer family, into which both W. H. Bradbury and his sister, Edith, had married, had brought new capital into Bradbury, Evans and Co. in 1865. This injection of capital saw William Agnew (...