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Henry S. King (Publisher)
A Victorian banker turned publisher, he built a London firm that helped shape the literary world of the 1870s. His name is closely linked with the publishing house Henry S. King & Co., later taken over by Charles Kegan Paul.
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A Classified Catalogue of Henry S. King & Co.'s Publications, November, 1873
by Henry S. King (Publisher)
About the author
Born in 1817, Henry Samuel King was a British bookseller, banker, and publisher. He began in the book trade with his brother in Brighton, later became associated with Smith, Elder, and went on to establish his own publishing business in London under the name Henry S. King & Co.
His firm became part of the lively Victorian publishing scene, issuing a wide range of books and attracting notable literary connections. In 1877, he sold the business to Charles Kegan Paul, and the company continued under the better-known Kegan Paul name.
King died in 1878. Although he is less famous today than some of the writers and publishers around him, his career shows how much nineteenth-century publishing depended on energetic figures behind the scenes who connected commerce, print, and literary culture.