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Williams & Norgate

A long-running British publishing house best known for scholarly and scientific books, it also played a part in bringing important European thought to English-language readers. Founded in the 1840s, the firm became especially associated with serious nonfiction and academic work.

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The Home University Library catalogue 1914/15

The Home University Library catalogue 1914/15

by Williams & Norgate

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Williams & Norgate was not an individual author but a British publishing company. Reliable reference material describes it as a London and Edinburgh firm founded in 1842 by Edmund Sydney Williams and Frederick Norgate, with a reputation for publishing and importing scholarly, scientific, and foreign-language works.

Over time, the company became known for serious intellectual publishing rather than popular fiction. Its catalog included academic, religious, and scientific titles, and it helped circulate continental European ideas to readers in Britain.

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