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ROUTLEDGE, GEORGE (1812—1888)

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ROUTLEDGE, See also:GEORGE (1812—1888) , See also:English publisher, was See also:born at See also:Brampton in See also:Cumberland on the 23rd of See also:September 1812. He gained his earliest experience of business with a bookseller at See also:Carlisle. Proceeding to See also:London in 1833, he started in business for himself as a bookseller in 1836, and as a publisher in 1843, making his first serious success by reprinting the Biblical commentaries of an See also:American writer, See also:Albert See also:Barnes. His fame as a publisher, however, rests chiefly upon the enormous number of cheap books which he issued. A See also:series of See also:shilling volumes called the " Railway Library " was an immense success, including as it did Mrs Harriet See also:Beecher See also:Stowe's See also:Uncle Tom's See also:Cabin, and he also published in popular See also:farm some of the writings of See also:Washington See also:Irving, Fenimore See also:Cooper, Bulwer See also:Lytton and See also:Benjamin Disraeli. He also brought out a number of shilling books in " Routledge's Universal Library." Routledge died in London on the 13th of See also:December 1888. After being styled Routledge, Warne & Routledge, his See also:firm changed its name to that of George Rout-ledge & Sons. A See also:branch of the business was established in New See also:York in 1854.

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