Notes for the Guidance of Authors: Compiled for the Macmillan Company (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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Excerpt from Notes for the Guidance of Authors: Compiled for the Macmillan Company

HE foundation of the house now known as The Macmillan Company was laid in 1869 by the late George Edward Brett, who established in New York for the London house of Macmillan 85 Co. An agency for the sale of their publications. The business was soon enlarged to include the publication of books by American authors, and remained under the management of George Edward Brett until his death in 1890, when his son, George Platt Brett, became the resident American partner. In 1896 the American firm was incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, and adopted the style of The Macmillan Company. The Company's interests as publishers are not confined to any particular departments of litera ture or science, but its list of current publications, which at present numbers some five thousand.

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