Social Victorians/People/Redway

Also Known As

• Family name: Redway
• George Redway was a "small London publisher who specialized in occult books and also sold them second-hand" (Howe?).

Demographics

• Nationality:

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

• A. E. Waite, published
• Arthur Machen, worked for Redway "as a cataloguer and magazine editor" ("Arthur Machen," Wikipedia)
• MacGregor Mathers

Organizations

• George Redway publishing (1610?–1900)

Timeline

1887, Redway published Waite's The Real History of the Rosicrucians (Howe 85 38-39, n. 2).

1900, Redway's business failed about 1900 (Howe 85 38-39, n. 2).

1907, George Redway published Mathers's The Kabbalah Unveiled, having bought the copyright for £35 (Howe 85 38-39, n. 2).

Questions and Notes

1. A George Redway publisher is still in business, has been, apparently, since 1610. Is this the same concern?
2. Redway acquired Walter Moseley's books on the occult, "including a number of Hockley manuscripts" (Howe 85 39, n. 3).

Bibliography

• Not in the DNB and not in Wikipedia.