Simpkin & Marshall
British book publisher, bookseller and book wholesaler / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Simpkin & Marshall was a British bookseller, book wholesaler and book publisher. The firm was founded in 1819 and traded until the 1940s.[1] For many decades the firm was Britain's largest book wholesaler[2] and a respected family-owned company,[3] but it was acquired by the media proprietor Robert Maxwell and went bankrupt in 1954, an event which, according to Lionel Leventhal, "sounded a warning to the book trade about Captain Robert Maxwell's way of doing business".[4]