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A late-Victorian London publishing house rather than a single writer, this name is attached to a surviving 1896 catalog that offers a lively snapshot of what readers were being sold at the time.

by & Foster Sands Bliss
Bliss, Sands, & Foster appears in library records and digitized editions as the publisher of A Catalogue of New Books and New Editions, 1896. Project Gutenberg and related bibliographic sources list the firm at 15 Craven Street, Strand, London, and treat the catalog as a publishers' or booksellers' reference work rather than a conventional authored book.
That makes this entry a little unusual: instead of a personal biography, the name points to a publishing business active in late 19th-century London. The surviving catalog gathers titles across subjects such as history, biography, fiction, travel, and economics, giving modern readers a useful glimpse of the literary marketplace of its day.
Because the available sources in this search identify a company rather than an individual author, reliable personal details about any one "Foster Sands Bliss" could not be confirmed here. For that reason, this overview focuses on the firm behind the work and the historical interest of the catalog itself.