In 1885, Ward and Lock purchased WH Smith’s popular ‘Select Library of Fiction’ series. In 1882 offices were opened in New York City, and in 1884 in Melbourne. In 1882, Ward and Lock started expanding to English-speaking markets in other countries. To cope with the demand of cheap reprints and prize books, the firm set up their own binding works on the top floor of Warwick House. They published a lot of cheap reprints from here, as well as prize books for school in the 1880s. The company's staff was now expanding and hence, in 1878, they built a new office called ‘Warwick House’. The acquisition of Moxon meant that the firm had “the right to publish the Poet Laureate’s works” and they published Tennyson's collected poems. Ward and Lock's catalogue was now extensive. In 1873, Tyler left the company and it reverted to being Ward and Lock. By buying the works published by Moxon and Beeton, Ward, Lock and Tyler expanded their connections with many famous poets and authors of the time. The firm was led by Edward Moxon who was an influential poet and publisher, who had died in 1858. Moxon was a publishing firm that had published Charles Lamb, William Wordsworth, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Robert Southey, Benjamin Disraeli and a successful volume of poems illustrated by JMW Turner and Thomas Stothard. In 1870, Ward, Lock and Tyler acquired E. In 1866, London publisher Samuel Orchart Beeton was obliged (as a result of the financial Panic of 1866) to sell his titles and name to Ward Lock this gave them the rights to his late wife's Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. “Tyler remained with the firm for eight years, ceasing to be a partner in 1873, when it reverted to Ward and Lock.” Tyler seems to have brought capital to the company and was a financial adviser. Tyler joined Ward and Lock as a partner in 1865 and the firm became Ward, Lock and Tyler. The magazine became very famous and in response to public demand, Ward and Lock published it in volume form, the first volume appearing in 1861.Ĭharles T. With the help of Ward and Lock, Sala had, in 1860, started a magazine called Temple Bar – a “London magazine for Town and Country Readers”. Some of the authors the company published included Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charles Reade and George Augustus Sala. Ward and Lock continued to publish books at popular prices and started to issue atlases. When Ward and Lock established their office in Paternoster Row it was already the home of “some of the most famous publishers in the country”: Rivington, Longman, William Blackwood and Nelsons were some of the famous publishers with offices in the neighborhood. By 1861, Ward and Lock had achieved enough success to be able to afford more staff and move into a new office at Amen Corner on Paternoster Row. Other titles published by Ward and Lock around this time included books on travel, mechanics, and reprints of classical works, such as Homer's Odyssey and Alexandre Dumas’ Pictures of Travel in the South of France. By the 1870s, Webster’s Dictionary had sold 140,000 copies.
In 1855, Herbert Ingram and Company folded and Ward and Lock, with some help from their business partners Thomas Dixon Galpin and George William Petter, bought some of Ingram's “publications, including the copyrights, wood-blocks, stereotype plates and engravings were put up for sale.” Perhaps, the most important book from the Ingram catalogue was Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, which Ward and Lock started reissuing with great success. īefore founding Ward and Lock, Ward had worked as the manager of the book department at Herbert Ingram and Company. It appealed to “publishers, printers, authors and tradesmen who occupied its houses and frequented its taverns.” And it was always bustling with “innumerable trades, tradesmen and customers, coaches, wagons playhouses”.
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It was full of businesses and people, coffee houses, taverns, and soup kitchens.
Fleet Street had an inviting architecture and atmosphere. The firm's first office was at 158 Fleet Street. Based originally in Fleet Street, London it outgrew its offices and in 1878 moved completely to Salisbury Square, London. Ebenezer Ward and George Lock starting a publishing concern in 1854 which became known as "Ward and Lock".
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