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Bodley Head (Firm)
Founded in London in 1887, this historic publishing house helped shape modern literary culture before becoming an imprint of Penguin Random House. Its list has ranged from fin-de-siècle classics to ambitious contemporary nonfiction.
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List of Books in Belles Lettres Published by John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1895
by Bodley Head (Firm)
About the author
Started by John Lane and Elkin Mathews in 1887, The Bodley Head began as an English publishing house and took its name from Sir Thomas Bodley of the Bodleian Library. Early on, it became closely associated with literary and artistic publishing, including work connected with Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley.
Over time, the firm changed shape through mergers and acquisitions, but the Bodley Head name endured. It was later acquired by Random House in 1987, and today survives as an imprint within Penguin Random House.
The modern Bodley Head is known especially for serious, idea-driven nonfiction. That mix of literary history and intellectual ambition gives the name an unusual continuity: it belongs both to the world of late-Victorian publishing and to today’s big conversations in history, politics, science, and culture.