CARPENTER, Humphrey:

THE SEVEN LIVES OF JOHN MURRAY. The Story of a Publishing Diary.

London, Published by John Murray, 2008. 8vo.pp.xiv+370 index, illustrations, very good hardcover in very Good dust wrapper. Item #24861

For more than 200 years John Murray has published challenging and innovative books This is the gripping history of the venerable publishing house and behind its scenes from Byron's Memoirs to Jane Austen's clipped manner to the controversy of Darwin's The Origin of Species.

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