PUBLISHER: Universal Publishing Company, New York, circa 1892-1900?
ABOUT: Although litle confirming information has as yet been found on this publisher -- it did not, among other things, submit catalogs to PTLA -- it was certanly another of nearly a dozen names under which John Wurtele Lovell and his brother Frank F. Lovell operated from 1890 into the late 1890s. Most of these companies were used for specific promotional campaigns and were spunoff as part of Lovell's attempt to monopolize and thus bring order to the reprint industry (explored in detail on the linked Lovell page).
To date just eight titles have been confirmed with this imprint. All in the same cloth binding stamped "Popular Edition", with all examined copies printed on exceptionally poor quality paper, they are:
James Fenimore Cooper. The Spy, 1899.
Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. Inscription dated 1902.
George Eliot. The Spanish Gipsy.
Thomas Hughes. Tom Brown's School Days and Tom Brown at Oxford.
Lady Cook (Tennessee C. Claflin), Essays, London.
Owen Meredith. Lucile.
Adelaide Anne Proctor. The Poems of Adelaide A. Proctor, with introduction by Charles Dickens.
William Wilkie-Collins. The Legacy of Cain.
LUCILE’s ISSUED BY Universal Publishing Company :
Last revised: 4 August 2024