Research Catalog

Title

George Palmer Putnam : representative American publisher / Ezra Greenspan.

Author

Greenspan, Ezra.

Publication

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2000.

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Description

xv, 510 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This study is based on archival research into not only Putnam's own papers but into the records of his business, the papers of other family members, and the archives of persons with whom Putnam had contact through business and social networks. In a detailed narrative, Greenspan weaves together the story of Putnam's life and that of the development of print culture in nineteenth-century America to offer a biography of this "representative American publisher.""--Jacket.

Series Statement

The Penn State series in the history of the book

Uniform Title

Penn State series in the history of the book

Subject

• Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872
• G.P. Putnam & Sons > History
• 1800-1899
• Publishers and publishing > United States > Biography
• Publishers and publishing > United States > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies
• History
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Family Antecedents: The Palmers and Putnams of New England -- Early Years in New York City and the Book Trade -- Wiley and Putnam, New York and London -- Home and Office, Privacy and Professionalism, 1840-1841 -- Life and Business in London -- International Dealings in American Books, 1845-1847 -- London, Rome, and Back Home to New York -- Publishing American Arts and Letters, 1850-1852 -- Putnam's Monthly and "the Putnam Public" -- Years of Boom and Bust, 1853-1857 -- Print, Public Service, and the Civil War -- G.P. Putnam and Sons (and Daughters), 1867-1872.

ISBN

0271020059 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99036895^

OCLC

41601292

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library