Life and Times of the Right Honourable William Henry Smith, M.P. 2 Volume Paperback Set: Volume SET

A lively, wide-ranging 1893 biography of an influential Victorian newspaper wholesaler, bookseller and politician whose retail business survives today.

Herbert Eustace Maxwell (Author)

9781108009270, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 4 March 2010

806 pages
32.5 x 25 x 6.8 cm, 1.34 kg

This is a lively two-volume biography, first published in 1893, of the influential Victorian businessman and politician W. H. Smith (1825–1891), whose father and uncle established the well-known stationery and bookselling business. The author, Herbert Maxwell (1845-1932), was a Scottish essayist and Conservative Member of Parliament who greatly admired Smith's human qualities and had access to his personal papers. Volume 1 describes how Smith helped his father expand their efficient and successful newspaper wholesaling business to include a chain of railway station news- and bookstalls and a lending library, as well as becoming sole agents for The Times in 1854. Smith went into Parliament in 1868, and worked at the Treasury before becoming First Lord of the Admiralty in 1878.

Volume 1: 1. 1784–1846
2. 1846–1854
3. 1854–1893
4. 1855–1865
5. 1865–1868
6. 1868–1869
7. 1870–1871
8. 1872
9. 1873–1874
10. 1874–1876
11. 1876–1878
12. 1878
Volume 2: 1. 1878–1880
2. 1880–1881
3. 1882–1884
4. 1880–1885
5. 1871–1891
6. 1885
7. 1886–1887
8. 1887
9. 1888
10. 1889
11. 1890
12. 1891
13. 1891
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Publishing industry & book trade [KNTP]