Chapter 1: Bookish Beginnings, 1804-25

John Murray II, Publisher and family friend

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John Murray, Publisher and family friend
John Murray II (1778-1843)
Engraving from the Portrait by H.W. Pickersgill, R.A.
Reproduced with permission of the John Murray Archive

John Murray was a doyen of publishing in the first half of the nineteenth century. Murray was Byron's publisher and literary executor; his 'list' included Jane Austen and George Borrow and many other leading writers.


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