Mudie's Select Library Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Mudie, Charles
- Mudie's Library Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
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Business services
Library & related services
Notes:
Traced origins to Charles Mudie, 1818-90, who in 1840 established a stationery and newspaper retailing business which also loaned books. The latter activity expanded rapidly into a popular subscription library for middle class readers. By mid century had 25,000 subscribers and almost one million books. Opened branches in Manchester, Birmingham and elsewhere and established main library in New Oxford St. Incorporated and floated 1864 as Mudie's Select Library Ltd. In decline after Mudie's death. Renamed Mudie's Library Ltd in 1930 and closed 1937
Publications:
- 'A larger outlay than any return'. The library of W H Smith & Son, 1860-1973 by Colclough, Stephen
- 'Bookselling by the backdoor. Circulating libraries, booksellers and book clubs, 1870-1966' in R Myers & M Harris (eds), Genius for Letters. Booksellers and bookselling from the 16th to the 20th century by Eliot, Simon
- Charles Henry Mudie. A memorial sketch by one of his sisters by Mudie, Mary
- 'Early days at Mudie's' in A A Stevens, Recollections of a Bookman. A record of thirty three years with three famous book houses, and some account of noted books, their authors and others by Stevens, Alfred A
- Food for thought. Mudie's Select Library and the fiction of the 1860s by Fryckstedt, Monica C
- History of Booksellers. The old and the new by Curwen, Henry
- Mudie's Circulating Library and the Victorian Novel by Griest, Guinevere L
- 'Mudies' in W B Beable, Romance of Great Businesses by Beable, William H
- 'The secret'. British publishers and Mudie's struggle for economic survival, 1861-64 by Finkelstein, David
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Mudie, Charles
- Mudie's Library Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
- Business services Library & related services
Notes:
Traced origins to Charles Mudie, 1818-90, who in 1840 established a stationery and newspaper retailing business which also loaned books. The latter activity expanded rapidly into a popular subscription library for middle class readers. By mid century had 25,000 subscribers and almost one million books. Opened branches in Manchester, Birmingham and elsewhere and established main library in New Oxford St. Incorporated and floated 1864 as Mudie's Select Library Ltd. In decline after Mudie's death. Renamed Mudie's Library Ltd in 1930 and closed 1937Publications:
- 'A larger outlay than any return'. The library of W H Smith & Son, 1860-1973 by Colclough, Stephen
- 'Bookselling by the backdoor. Circulating libraries, booksellers and book clubs, 1870-1966' in R Myers & M Harris (eds), Genius for Letters. Booksellers and bookselling from the 16th to the 20th century by Eliot, Simon
- Charles Henry Mudie. A memorial sketch by one of his sisters by Mudie, Mary
- 'Early days at Mudie's' in A A Stevens, Recollections of a Bookman. A record of thirty three years with three famous book houses, and some account of noted books, their authors and others by Stevens, Alfred A
- Food for thought. Mudie's Select Library and the fiction of the 1860s by Fryckstedt, Monica C
- History of Booksellers. The old and the new by Curwen, Henry
- Mudie's Circulating Library and the Victorian Novel by Griest, Guinevere L
- 'Mudies' in W B Beable, Romance of Great Businesses by Beable, William H
- 'The secret'. British publishers and Mudie's struggle for economic survival, 1861-64 by Finkelstein, David