Henry Samuel King
1817–78
Publisher and businessman. Started a bookselling business with his brother in Brighton, 1838. Partner in Smith, Elder & Co., 1853; on dissolution of the partnership in 1868, King retained the banking and export side of the business and in 1871 began publishing under the name Henry S. King & Co. Expanded commercial and export services to India and from 1871 published the Week’s News, a paper for English residents abroad. Sold the publishing side of the business to Charles Kegan Paul in 1877.
Source
Howsam 1998
Bibliography
Howsam, Leslie. 1998. Kegan Paul: a Victorian imprint: publishers, books and cultural history. London: Kegan Paul International. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
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