PUBLISHER: Trade Publishing Co., New York, late 1890s-circa 1900?
ABOUT: Little has learned about this firm save that it was affiliated with the Mershon Company (note that Mershon's name appears at the base of the spine of all four known copies and the cover design also appears on some Merson copies); see The Mershon Company. Trade Publishing did not submit catalogs to PTLA.
The Henry AltemusCompany website adds this speculation: "The title page [of an editon of Tom Brown at Oxford] has the same border that the Stitt Publishing Company used during 1905 -- its only year of publication. Thus it is reasonable to assume that this company published this book after that. In 1908 The Trade Publishing Company incorporated in Rahway, New Jersey "to do a general printing, publishing and stationery business". Of interest is that this is where the Mershon Publishing Company was headquartered. Mershon succeeded Stitt in 1906. ... Thus, although speculative, I suspect that some of the Stitt/Merson plates were acquired by this new company. (This would include the Tom Brown Book)."
LUCILE’s ISSUED BY Trade Publishing Co.:
Last revised: 29 September 2024