| LC control no. | nr 91043825 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | John Lane Company |
| Variant(s) | Lane Company |
| See also | Founder: Lane, John, 1854-1925 Hierarchical superior: Bodley Head (Firm) |
| Beginning date | 1896-11 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Address | 140 Fifth Avenue New York N.Y. United States |
| Field of activity | Publishers and publishing |
| Special note | This is a publishing company. Do not confuse with furniture company. John Lane was a British publisher who lived 1854-1925. His New York office opened in 1896. |
| Found in | Dreiser, T. Papers, ca. 1890-1965 (John Lane Company; publishers) 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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