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George Allen (publisher)

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George Allen (26 March 1832 – 5 September 1907) was an English craftsman and engraver, who became an assistant to John Ruskin and then in consequence a publisher. [1]

17 relations: Allen & Unwin, Chancery Lane, Charing Cross Road, Clerkenwell, Dorchester House, Guild of St George, John Henry Le Keux, John Ruskin, Keston, Line engraving, Mezzotint, Modern Painters, Newark-on-Trent, Orpington, Stanley Unwin (publisher), Thomas Goff Lupton, Working Men's College.

Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin is an Australian independent publishing company, established in Australia in 1976 as a subsidiary of the British firm George Allen & Unwin Ltd., which was founded by Sir Stanley Unwin in August 1914 and went on to become one of the leading publishers of the twentieth century.

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Chancery Lane

Chancery Lane is a one-way street situated in the ward of Farringdon Without in the City of London.

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Charing Cross Road

Charing Cross Road is a street in central London running immediately north of St Martin-in-the-Fields to St Giles Circus (the intersection with Oxford Street) and then becomes Tottenham Court Road.

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Clerkenwell

Clerkenwell is an area of central and north London, England.

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Dorchester House

Dorchester House was a mansion in Park Lane, London, built in 1853 by Robert Stayner Holford.

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Guild of St George

The Guild of St George is a charitable Education Trust, based in England but with a worldwide membership, which tries to uphold the values and put into practice the ideas of its founder, John Ruskin (1819–1900).

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John Henry Le Keux

John Henry Le Keux (23 March 1812 – 4 February 1896) was an English architectural engraver and draughtsman.

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist.

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Keston

Keston is a village now in the London Borough of Bromley, but historically part of Kent.

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Line engraving

Line engraving is a term for engraved images printed on paper to be used as prints or illustrations.

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Mezzotint

Mezzotint is a printmaking process of the intaglio family, technically a drypoint method.

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Modern Painters

Modern Painters (1843–60) is a five-volume work by the eminent Victorian art critic, John Ruskin, begun when he was 24 years old.

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Newark-on-Trent

Newark-on-Trent or Newark is a market town and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of the county of Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England.

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Orpington

Orpington is a town and electoral ward in the London Borough of Bromley, Greater London, England, at the south-eastern edge of London's urban sprawl.

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Stanley Unwin (publisher)

Sir Stanley Unwin, KCMG (19 December 1884 – 13 October 1968) was a British publisher and founder of the George Allen and Unwin Ltd UK publishing house in 1914, on the very day that the First World War was declared.

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Thomas Goff Lupton

Thomas Goff Lupton (3 September 1791 – 18 May 1873) was an English mezzotint engraver and artist, who engraved many works by Turner and other notable British painters of the 19th century.

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Working Men's College

The Working Men's College (or WMC), is among the earliest adult education institutions established in the United Kingdom, and Europe's oldest extant centre for adult education.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen_(publisher)

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