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Archibald Constable. A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New. Archibald David Constable (24 February 1774 – 21 July 1827) was a Scottish publisher, bookseller and stationer.
Constable & Co. was founded in 1795 by Archibald Constable, and became Sir Walter Scott's publisher. In 1897, Constable released the most famous horror novel ever published, Bram Stoker's The Un-Dead, albeit with a last-minute title change to Dracula. In 1813, the company was the first to give an author advance against royalties.
- 1999 (Constable & Co. founded 1795, Robinson Publishing Ltd founded 1983)
- United Kingdom
- Nick Robinson
- Little, Brown Book Group
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Constable & Robinson Ltd. adalah anak perusahaan Little, Brown yang menerbitkan buku fiksi dan non-fiksi dan buku internet. Didirikan di Edinburgh pada tahun 1795 oleh Archibald Constable sebagai Constable & Co., dan oleh Nick Robinson sebagai Robinson Publishing Ltd. pada tahun 1983, perusahaan penerbit ini merupakan anak perusahaan Little, Brown, yang dimiliki oleh Hachette.
- 1999 (Constable & Co. didirikan tahun 1795, Robinson Publishing Ltd didirikan tahun 1983)
- Britania Raya
- Nick Robinson
- Little, Brown Book Group
The business of the Constable firm was carried on by the publisher’s son Thomas, who also took over and expanded the Edinburgh printing business of his grandfather, David Willison (Archibald Constable’s father-in-law). In 1839 Thomas was appointed printer to Queen Victoria and in 1859 printer to Edinburgh University. By 1852 the company had ...
1328292 Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 12 — Constable, Archibald 1887 Thomas Finlayson Henderson CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774–1827), Scottish publisher, son of Thomas Constable, land steward to the Earl of Kellie, was born at Carnbee, Fifeshire, 24 Feb. 1774.
: 16 [Archibald Constable published Ivanhoe in 3 volumes in 1820, but also, T. Egerton had been publishing the works of Jane Austen in 3 volumes 10 years earlier, Sense and Sensibility in 1811 etc.] This continued until Constable's company collapsed in 1826 with large debts, bankrupting both him and Scott.
Search for: 'Archibald Constable' in Oxford Reference ». (1774–1827),a Scots publisher who published most of Scott's early work. He established the Edinburgh Review in 1802, and bought the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1812. Yet in 1826 he went bankrupt, heavily involving Scott in his debts. In 1827 he established Constable's Miscellany, a ...
