Title & Author:

A Batsford century : the record of a hundred years of publishing and bookselling, 1843-1943 / edited by Hector Bolitho.

Publication:

London : B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1943.

Description:

viii, 147 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
New Zealand editor.
Noted in Bagnall.
Includes index.
Foreword / by Harry Batsford -- B.T. Batsford: his family, early life and apprenticeship -- Early days of the business -- First publications -- A Victorian bookseller-publisher -- New premises and a new arrival -- Bradley and Herbert Batsford: publishing developments -- Harry Batsford -- A tribute to Herbert Batsford -- The great war -- Portrait of a charwoman -- Another arrival -- Post-war ups and downs -- The move to Mayfair -- A publishing 'new deal' -- Publishers' journeys -- William Hanneford-Smith: a tribute -- William Hanneford-Smith: an account of his work -- Charles Fry -- Brian Cook -- Work at home and abroad -- A wartime evacuation -- The war in North Audley Street -- Publishing from the Malvern Hills -- Some predecesors in a tradition -- Graduation in a tradition -- Some friends of Batsfords -- Thoughts on a centenary.
Bagnall

Subject:

B.T. Batsford Ltd.
B.T. Batsford.
Publishers and publishing Great Britain.
Publishers and publishing
Publishers and publishing Great Britain History.
Booksellers and bookselling Great Britain History.
Booksellers and bookselling Great Britain.
Great Britain
1843-1943

Added entries:

Bolitho, Hector, 1897-1974, editor.
Bolitho, Hector, 1898-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 8250
Call No.: W7077; ID:85-B5325
Status: Available