David Nutt (publisher)
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David Nutt was a publisher of books and the father of Alfred Nutt
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Nutt married Ellen Carter, a grand-daughter of William Miller whose publishing house was a predecessor of John Murray
. Alfred was their eldest and only surviving son. Nutt was a close associate of Nicholas Trübner. He founded his publishing firm in 1829 at 58 Fleet Street, London. It moved in 1848 to 270–271 Strand. The business was mainly confined to foreign bookselling, though it expanded considerably under the direction of his son to include works of folklore and antiquities.
Nutt's company was the first publisher of Robert Frost
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Alfred Nutt
Alfred Trübner Nutt was a British publisher, now best known for his writing as folklorist and Celticist.-Biography:...
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Nutt married Ellen Carter, a grand-daughter of William Miller whose publishing house was a predecessor of John Murray
John Murray (publisher)
John Murray is an English publisher, renowned for the authors it has published in its history, including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, and Charles Darwin...
. Alfred was their eldest and only surviving son. Nutt was a close associate of Nicholas Trübner. He founded his publishing firm in 1829 at 58 Fleet Street, London. It moved in 1848 to 270–271 Strand. The business was mainly confined to foreign bookselling, though it expanded considerably under the direction of his son to include works of folklore and antiquities.
Nutt's company was the first publisher of Robert Frost
Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...
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