John Murray

Following the success of Byron’s Childe Harold, John Murray moved to Albemarle Street where, a few years later, early cantos of Byron’s Don Juan were sold from the window to an eager crowd. Anticipating the needs and desires of the reading public, John Murray were the first publisher to produce a mass-market cookery book as well the first self-help title, the first travel guides and, in Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation, the first television tie-in. Though much has changed since John Murray published

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Following the success of Byron’s Childe Harold, John Murray moved to Albemarle Street where, a few years later, early cantos of Byron’s Don Juan were sold from the window to an eager crowd. Anticipating the needs and desires of the reading public, John Murray were the first publisher to produce a mass-market cookery book as well the first self-help title, the first travel guides and, in Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation, the first television tie-in. Though much has changed since John Murray published

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United Kingdom

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London

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1768

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publishing

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