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M.J. Ivers & Co.
A late 19th-century New York publishing house, this firm is best remembered for inexpensive popular books and performance collections made for everyday readers. Its surviving titles offer a small window into how reading and recitation were shared in schools, parlors, and public entertainments of the time.
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About the author
M. J. Ivers & Co. was a New York publishing firm rather than a single writer. Records from library and archival sources describe it as a producer of inexpensive, widely circulated books in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including recitation books and other popular series.
The company is especially associated with cheap editions and entertainment material meant for broad audiences. Archival descriptions note that after the breakup of Beadle and Adams in 1898, the firm's owner, James Sullivan, acquired Beadle dime and half-dime novel collections, linking M. J. Ivers & Co. to a lively corner of popular publishing history.
For readers today, the name often appears on practical and performance-oriented compilations such as Catalogue of Standard Recitations, Numbers 19–34. Because M. J. Ivers & Co. was a company, not an individual author, a personal portrait is not available here.