Social Victorians/People/Redway
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Also Known As edit
- Family name: Redway
- George Redway was a "small London publisher who specialized in occult books and also sold them second-hand" (Howe?).
Demographics edit
- Nationality:
Family edit
Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies edit
- A. E. Waite, published
- Arthur Machen, worked for Redway "as a cataloguer and magazine editor" ("Arthur Machen," Wikipedia)
- MacGregor Mathers
Organizations edit
- George Redway publishing (1610?–1900)
Timeline edit
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 edit
- A George Redway publisher is still in business, has been, apparently, since 1610. Is this the same concern?
- Redway acquired Walter Moseley's books on the occult, "including a number of Hockley manuscripts" (Howe 85 39, n. 3).
Bibliography edit
- Not in the DNB and not in Wikipedia.