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The Religious Tract Society was a British evangelical Christian organization founded in 1799 and known for publishing a variety of popular religious and quasi-religious texts in the 19th century. The society engaged in charity as well as commercial enterprise, publishing books and periodicals for profit.
Paternoster Row is a street in the City of London that was a centre of the London publishing trade, [1] [2] ... No. 56 – The Religious Tract Society (1851) [30] No ...
Historically it included St Paul's Cross and Paternoster Row. It became one of the principal marketplaces in London. St Paul's Cross was an open-air pulpit from which many of the most important statements on the political and religious changes brought by the Reformation were made public during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
John Van Voorst was born in Highgate on 15 February 1804, to a family of Dutch descent. [1] He served a six-year apprenticeship in Wakefield from the age of 16 before returning to London to work for publishers Longman, Green, Orme, Hurst & Co. [1] [2] He set up his own business in Paternoster Row in 1833.
The Leisure Hour was a British general-interest periodical of the Victorian era published weekly from 1852 to 1905. [1] [2] It was the most successful of several popular magazines published by the Religious Tract Society, which produced Christian literature for a wide audience. [1]
At its outset, Pulte seized on a popular trend: suburban tract housing, informally known as the cookie-cutter neighborhood. The undisputed pioneer of this type of housing was Abraham Levitt, whose ...
In about 1763 he and a friend, John Roberts, went into business in Paternoster Row as booksellers. In setting himself up in business, Robinson had the support of Thomas Longman, "who liberally, and unasked, offered him any sum, on credit, that might be wanted". [3] His partner, Roberts, died about 1776. [2]
Jackson and Walford, later Jackson, Walford, and Hodder from 1861 was a London publishing firm and predecessor firm of Hodder & Stoughton. at 18 St Paul's Churchyard and 27 Paternoster Row in 1871 (which was the former address of the later Ward & Co.