PUBLISHER: Aaron] Lovell Company, New York, 1870--1902.
ABOUT: Aaron Lovell is listed as publisher in the New York city directories from 1879 though 1901-1902, and he submitted catalogs to PTLA 1885-1894. None of these reflect an edition of Lucile, and indeed his annual production seems to have been small and his backlist also modest. Despite his surname he also seems not to have been releated to any of the Lovell's active in the printing and publishing trades. He does seem to have had links to the Parker P. Simmons, Walter Scott, and perhaps, though less likely, with the Hurst companies.
LUCILE’s ISSUED BY A[aron] Lovell Company. No copies with this imprint have been reported.
1891-1894 PTLA: A. Lovell (New York). The Canterbury Poets, edited by William Sharp. A new comprehensive edition of the poets. Square 12mo, Uncut, 40 cents; Limp Mor., $1.75; Padded Grained Mor., $2.00; Half Mor., $1.50; Also Sets of above, 2 vols. in paper box, cloth, gilt, the Set, $1.00. Also in cloth, gilt stamp and edges, 75 cents per volume.... Owen Meredith (Earl of Lytton). Selected, with Introduction, by M. Betham-Edwards.
1892 PTLA: as 1891. [3 East 14th Street].
The London firm Walter Scott published this multi-volume series through the 1890s and later. It contains one volume of miscellaneous work by Meredith but that volume includes only a fragment, "Song from Lucile, The Bird of Paradise," not the full text. It is likely Lovell imported and sold copies of all or volumes from the series, as did Parker P. Simmons. Hurst also published a Canterbury Poets series in the 1890s, which did include a Lucile, and it is posible A. Lovell Company stocked and sold copies of this rather than or along with the Walter Scott volumes.
Last revised: 22 December 2024