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D. D. Cottrell's Subscription Agency
A glimpse into the fast-moving world of magazine selling in early 1900s America, this "author" was actually a New York subscription business rather than a single writer. Its surviving catalog reads like a lively snapshot of what people were reading, buying, and bundling in 1905.
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Wholesale Price List of Newspapers and Periodicals
by D. D. Cottrell's Subscription Agency
About the author
D. D. Cottrell's Subscription Agency appears to have been a business based in North Cohocton, New York, not an individual author. In its surviving catalog, Wholesale Price List of Newspapers and Periodicals, the agency describes itself as established in 1886 and presents its 1905 season offerings, with prices, bundle deals, and ordering instructions for newspapers and magazines from across the United States.
Today, the agency is remembered mainly through that catalog, which has been preserved by Project Gutenberg as a historical reference work. The book offers a useful window into everyday reading culture at the start of the twentieth century, showing how periodicals were marketed, discounted, and sold long before modern subscription platforms.
Because reliable biographical information about the people behind the agency is scarce, it is safest to treat D. D. Cottrell's Subscription Agency as a publishing and sales imprint connected to this one known work rather than as a well-documented personal author.