![]() ![]() ![]() In 1991 Everyman's Library was relaunched by a small independent company with the support of Random House in the UK and Alfred A. The tenth child of a Darlington housepainter, he had left school at thirteen, and arrived in London with half-a-crown in his pocket.ĭent promised to publish new and beautiful editions of the world's classics at one shilling a volume, ‘to appeal to every kind of reader: the worker, the student, the cultured man, the child, the man and the woman', so that ‘for a few shillings the reader may have a whole bookshelf of the immortals for five pounds (which will procure him with a hundred volumes) a man may be intellectually rich for life.'īy 1956 Everyman's Library had published more than a thousand titles and sold more than fifty million books. ![]() Dent, a master London bookbinder turned publisher, was a classic Victorian autodidact. Everyman's Library was founded on Februwith the publication by Joseph Dent (1849-1926) of fifty titles. ![]()
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