James Duffy was a prominent 19th century Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 author and publisher.
Duffy was educated at a hedge school

Hedge school

A hedge school is the name given to an educational practice in 18th and 19th century Ireland, so called due to its rural nature. It came about as local educated men began an oral tradition of teaching the community...

 and began his business as a bookseller through purchasing Protestant bibles given to Catholics. He then traveled to Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

 where he traded them for more valuable books. In 1830 he founded his own company, James Duffy and Sons, and issued Boney’s Oraculum, or Napoleon’s Book of Fate, which experienced huge sales.