Grant Richards
Grant Richards was a small British publishing house founded in 1897 by the writer Grant Richards. Significant publications from the company's first incorporation were George Bernard Shaw's Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant and A. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, as well as books by G. Chesterton, Saki, Arnold Bennett, Samuel Butler, and Ernest Bramah. In 1897, the Grant Richards publishing house began publishing the Dumpy Books for Children series of small format books for children.
Grant Richards
- Name
- Grant Richards
- Founded
- 1897
- Headquarters
- London
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Grant Richards was a small British publishing house founded in 1897 by the writer Grant Richards. Significant publications from the company's first incorporation were George Bernard Shaw's Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant and A. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, as well as books by G. Chesterton, Saki, Arnold Bennett, Samuel Butler, and Ernest Bramah. In 1897, the Grant Richards publishing house began publishing the Dumpy Books for Children series of small format books for children.
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In 1901, the publishing house launched The World's Classics, a reprint series of out of copyright literary classics. In 1905, the series was acquired by Henry Frowde of Oxford University Press, which continues to publish the series as Oxford World's Classics. Richards declared bankruptcy in 1905. He reorganised and continued to run the firm, publishing first under the name of E. Grant Richards (which included the initial of his wife's first name) and then under the name of Grant Richards Ltd. In these years the firm published works by John Galsworthy, Royall Tyler, James Joyce, Robert Tressell, John Masefield, and Jack Kahane. In 1926, when Richards declared bankruptcy a second time, the firm was renamed as the Richards Press. In 1937, the firm was bought by Martin Secker. It was subsequently bought by John Baker and finally by A & C Black.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Grant Richards • Founded — 1897 • Founder — Franklin Thomas Grant Richards • Country — United Kingdom • Headquarters — London • Publications — Books
Book series
Book series
• The Children's Library • The Dumpy Books for Children • Ethics of the Surface Series • Grant Allen's Historical Guides • How To series • The Larger Dumpy Books for Children • Omar Series • The Russian Library • Smaller Classics Series • The Sylvan Series • The World's Classics
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1897
Grant Richards established.
1897
Grant Richards is recorded from 1897.
1897
Grant Richards was established or created in 1897.
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The circumstances in which Grant Richards stands. Established or created in 1897. Recorded as publishing house. Richards has its headquarters at London. Situated in United Kingdom. Naming and authority record. Those registers additionally record the forms Richards Press (London) and Grant Richards (London).
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1069399353, Grant Richards (Firma).
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q46996021: Grant Richards
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19 To Grant Richards, 20 February 1908, Selected Poems and Prose of John Davidson
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- 1."World's Classics", in: Dinah Birch, ed., The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2009, 7th edition (online edition). Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- 2.Susan Pickford, "World’s Classics", in: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and H. R. Woudhuysen, eds., The Oxford Companion to the Book, Oxford University Press, 2010 (online edition). Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- 3.Grant Richards: First Edition Identification and Publisher Information, biblio.com. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
- 4.John Trevitt, "Secker, Martin (formerly Percy Martin Secker Klingender)(1882–1978)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2019 (online edition). Retrieved 22 April 2019.
- 5.FOB: Firms Out of Business.
- 6."Grant Richards" + "Children's Library", worldcat.org. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
- 7.Grant Allen's Historical Guides (Grant Richards) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- 8."The World's Classics; or, Bound Books for the Million", in The Review of Reviews, vol. 24, 1901, p. 546. Retrieved 22 May 2025.
- 9.se:Larger dumpy books for children, worldcat.org. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
- 10.Omar Series, seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- 11.World’s Classics, seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1069399353, Grant Richards (Firma).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
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