This page contains a Flash digital edition of a book.
Feature Anniversary publishing


From left Charles H Sweeny, F F Appleton, and Margaret V Paull plan the first Canadian production of Little Grey Rabbit Books


Rolling back the years 1


Several publishers are mining their archives to celebrate big birthdays this year—including HarperCollins’ 200th—and are hoping to harness their history to progress their business. Roger Tagholm reports


T 3


HE INDUSTRY IS currently enjoying a rich run of publishing anniversaries. HarperCollins is in the middle of bicentenary celebrations; next year


John Murray is 250 years young; its Hachete neigh- bour, Hodder, is 150 in the same year; Pan Books celebrated its 70th just a few weeks ago; and it only seems like yesterday that two Borzoi dogs were imitating the famous colophon of Alfred Knopf and greeting guests at the publisher’s part to celebrate its centenary at the Natural History Museum in New York in 2015. (An event about which editor- in-chief Sonny Mehta recalls drily “the dogs were allowed to walk through the museum—against the rules—but we still weren’t allowed to smoke.”) Here in the Messe, HC’s 200th is impossible to ignore.


Part of the stand has been converted into a HarperCol- lins “museum”, with titles from its archive, facsimiles


27


2


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48