Cadell and the Crash

摘要: innovative and distinguished publishing houses of the early nineteenth century. It shocked both book trade wider public, as it threatened to ruin not only venerated Archibald Constable talented printer James Ballantyne, but world's widest read living poet novelist, Sir Walter Scott. The tragic effects sequestration, or bankruptcy, on Scott are well known, events leading up far less evident because Cadell, central player in drama, has remained background.2 pictured figure i, operated Co.'s chief financial officer, making day-to-day decisions about paying bills, borrowing money, negotiating with firm's authors. Cadell joined house 1807 a nineteen-year-old clerk became partner four years later. He established firm relationship and, head finance, regularly frustrated Constable's lavish spending. In her seminal work, Scott's Last Edition, Jane Millgate details how set out his own publisher novels, producing collected edition Waverley novels from 1829