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Catalogue of Books Suitable for a Popular Library/Ethics
From early on, however, the firm also engaged in publishing selections from the works of ancient, modern, and even contemporary literary writers — though, as might be expected, not all in the latter category are still read today. These were clearly designed to meet the needs of a modestly educated but expanding reading public.
At the suggestion of John Blackie Jr. Enhanced by illustrations based on the work of David Scott, a notable Scottish painter of the time, the relatively inexpensive Casquet of Literary Gems went through several new and expanded editions and continued to be published into the s and s. The later editions were available, still in two volumes, in duodecimo format for seventeen shillings, or in five, in still smaller 48mo format for twelve shillings and sixpence.
Blackie, which established an office in London in , and branches in India, Australia, Canada, and for a time New York, thus did a great deal to make the classics of English literature and some foreign language classics, as well as a fair number of contemporary works, easily accessible to a broad general public.
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In this respect the company was certainly following the traditional Scottish objective of education for all -- spreading the word -- as another Glasgow publisher, Collins, and the Edinburgh publisher Thomas Nelson also did, while at the same time pursuing the no less characteristic Scottish goal of legitimate financial profit Finkelstein, pp.
Designer: Charles Rennie Mackintosh. In one respect in particular, however, the firm was a remarkable and admirable innovator. In Talwin Morris was hired as Art Director and chief book designer — making Blackie perhaps the first publisher to employ a truly gifted and already fairly well known artist in such a capacity.
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