Monday, 08 January 2007

Passmore and Alabaster

Sometimes when cataloguing a book, it is useful to know over what range of dates a particular publisher produced books.

I'd quite like to get dates for the following:

Alabaster and Passmore

Passmore and Alabaster

Marshall Brothers

Morgan and Scott (and any predecessors)

Marshall Morgan and Scott (additional info 27/08/07: from books we've had catalogued for sale in the past it looks like the merger could have happened some time between 1928 and 1930, possibly - by Googling - 1929)

Pickering and Inglis

Marshall Pickering

If anyone can provide us with this information I'd post it up on the blog for other people's reference, and also, if it is verifiable and I got round to it, perhaps on Wikipedia too.

Meanwhile, here is an interesting page about the history of Alabaster Passmore:


Further to above I have now received the following information from another bookseller (I have paraphrased his wording slightly):

Near the release of the 7th volume of the Treasury of David in 1885, Passmore & Alabaster (owner aging) started merging with Marshall Brothers. Both companies were operated separately. Passmore & Alabaster publications started, in about 1890, to selectively be published under "Marshall Brothers" on up till the early 1900s... Information is hard to come by, due to both companies being independent with publishing rights. Cross over publications have a note about the merger e.g a copy of According to Promise dated 1890 says "Marshall Brothers, incorporating Passmore & Alabaster".

This would explain how the printers' history page mentioned above can state "In 1910 the publishing division was sold" while books appear 20 years before this date with the "incorporating" text.



Yet more information, this time from Paul Tritton, author of the web article linked above.

There's a book:
Print is Our Business - A History of Alabaster Passmore & Sons
by Elizabeth Repath
Alabaster Passmore, Maidstone, 1983.

There are reference copies in:
* Maidstone Library
* Centre for Kentish Studies (Maidstone)
* Tonbridge Library
* Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
* Archive of Art & Design/National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London


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1 - hi, i have a original copy of the hairdressers weekly journal which is in immaculate condition,no.1. vol.1. dated saturday, may 6 1882.presumably the first issue.16 pages, on the back, it shows, london: printed by alabaster,passmore & sons. fann street, aldersgate street, and published by william wise, a the office, 4,crane court, fleet st,ec. if you are interested. deb (Comment this)

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