| LC control no. | n 81042780 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lane, John, 1854-1925 |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Elkin Mathews and John Lane (Firm) Founded corporate body of person: Bodley Head (Firm) Founded corporate body of person: John Lane Company |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1854-03-14 |
| Death date | 1925-02-02 |
| Place of birth | Devon (England) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Publishers and publishing |
| Profession or occupation | Publisher |
| Found in | His Bib. of George Meredith. Wikipedia, via WWW, Sept. 11, 2009 (b. 1854; d. 1925; British publisher; co-founder of The Bodley Head; associated with publishing controversial and audacious texts) Wikipedia, viewed November 21, 2016: (John Lane (publisher), born 14 March 1854 in Devon, died 2 February 1925 in his London home; with Charles Elkin Mathews founded The Bodley Head in 1887) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lane_(publisher)> Lambert, J.W. The Bodley Head, 1887-1987, ©1987: page 114 (Lane set about establishing his American company; opened November 1896 at 140 Fifth Avenue, publishing the parent firm's own books from London; the American Bodley Head) page 164-165 (the John Lane Company of New York, established in 1896) page 201 (Lane sold the John Lane Company of New York to Dodd, Mead and in the same year formed his own company, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, in London) Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin web site, viewed November 21, 2016: John Lane Company finding aid (partnership between Lane and Elkin Mathews led to the creation in 1887 of the Bodley Head, a firm initially involved with the antiquarian book trade; within a few years the Bodley Head had begun publishing limited editions; in 1894 the partnership was terminated; Lane retained the firm's imprint and to it prefixed his own name: John Lane The Bodley Head; in 1896 he opened a New York branch) <http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00207> |
| Associated language | eng |
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