Greycaine Leather HC THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN BY G. K CHESTERTON RARE 1920 ' S
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:64451880 | Topic: Fiction |
| Binding: Leather | Author: G.K CHESTERTON |
| Subject: Fiction | Publisher: Greycaine |
G.K. CHESTERTON
Greycaine Leather HC
THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN
The wisdom of Father Brown
The Incredulity of Father Brown
The Sectert of Father brwon
1037 pages
7.5" x 5"
RARE 1920's
1 pound 14 ounces
GREYCAINE BOOK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, WATFORD Greycaine Industrial Estate in North Watford takes its name from Greycaine Book Manufacturing Company, which moved there in 1926. Despite the fact that ...Greycaine Book Manufacturing Company was one of the pioneers in the mass production of good quality books sold at prices accessible to all, little has been written about it. This is its story. ORIGINS OF GREYCAINE BOOK MANUFACTURING COMPANY Greycaine Book Manufacturing Company derived its name from its Directors, Frank Grey and (Gordon) Ralph Hall Caine. Frank Grey was born Francis John Christian Gruneisen in 1869 in Camberwell, son of John Gruneisen, a book binder. John Gruneisen started a binding business at St. Andrew’s Hill, City, which later moved to Bishop’s Court, Old Bailey, and then to Baldwin’s Gardens, Holborn.1 Frank began an apprenticeship as a bookbinder, but abandoned it at the age of 19 and went to America, where he spent 7 years. On his return, Frank worked in his father’s business for a time, before starting his own business in Cross Street, Islington, later moving to Laycock Street, Islington. By 1908/9, Frank had been joined in the business by Ralph Hall Caine, and the Company name was subsequently changed from Gruneisen to Greycaine.2 Ralph Hall Caine was born in 1884 in Hampstead, son of Thomas Henry Hall Caine (1853-1931). (Thomas)3 Hall Caine was a successful and well-known novelist of his time, selling around 10 million copies of his 15 novels.4 (Thomas) Hall Caine was also a major shareholder of Greycaine Book Manufacturing Company.5 Ralph Hall Caine was educated at King William’s College on the Isle of Man, after which he went into the paper and printing trade, serving his apprenticeship partly in England and partly in America.6 During the First World War he was chief technical adviser on paper to the Ministry of Munitions and other government departments, and was made Deputy Controller of Paper in 1918.7 In 1920, he was awarded the CBE, and in 1922 he became a Conservative MP. He was a director of paper-making and other companies, and involved in many other projects, some with his brother, Derwent.
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