C. Kegan Paul & Co.

C. Kegan Paul & Co. was the London publishing firm established after Charles Kegan Paul took over the business of Henry S. King in 1877. Although the name looks like a single author, it refers to a publishing house closely associated with Paul, an English clergyman-turned-publisher and writer.

Charles Kegan Paul was born in 1828 and spent more than twenty years in the Church of England before moving into publishing. He also wrote books of his own, and his changing religious and intellectual views gave him an unusually broad perspective for a Victorian publisher.

Under his name, the firm became known for publishing serious and varied work, including literature, philosophy, travel, and religious writing. For readers today, books issued by C. Kegan Paul & Co. are often valuable not just for their contents, but as part of the story of 19th-century literary culture.