George Redway (Firm)

George Redway (Firm) was a London publishing business associated with George William Redway (1859–1934). Reference works on Victorian publishing note that he began publishing under his own name in the 1880s, with the firm active from York Street, Covent Garden and later absorbed into the wider Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner business around 1889.

The firm has lasting interest because of the kinds of books it issued. Library and bibliography sources describe George Redway as a publisher of literary, antiquarian, spiritualist, theosophical, and occult works, and surviving records connect the imprint with authors such as Arthur Edward Waite, S. L. MacGregor Mathers, and editions linked to Arthur Conan Doyle.

For readers today, George Redway is less an "author" in the usual sense than a distinctive historical publisher's imprint. One of the clearest windows into its character is the surviving 1887 catalog, which presents the firm's list as a collection of "remarkable books"—a good summary of the niche it tried to fill in late nineteenth-century London.