& Tyler Lock Ward

Ward, Lock and Tyler was the name used by the British publishing firm founded by Ebenezer Ward and George Lock after Charles T. Tyler joined as a partner in 1865. During that period, the company expanded its reach and published inexpensive, widely available books for a broad readership.

The name appears today on catalog-style works such as New Books & New Editions, Published by Ward, Lock, and Tyler, which survives in modern digital libraries. In that sense, “Tyler Lock Ward” is best understood as a rearranged cataloging form of the publisher name rather than a clearly documented individual author.

Because the available sources point to a publishing house instead of a single biographical person, there is not enough confirmed information to write a standard personal author biography. What can be said with confidence is that Ward, Lock and Tyler was part of an influential 19th-century London publishing business, and the imprint remains of interest as a record of what readers of the time were being offered.