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Who is William Swan Sonnenschein?
From an undated photograph of William Swan Sonnenschein in the Illustrated London News (6 November 1909, page. 650). Wikimedia Commons
William Swan Sonnenschein (1855-1931) was an editor, bibliographer and London publisher in his own name, with partners, and in the employ of other publishers.
dba Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co. he published George Moore’s nonfiction Parnell and His Island (1887, 1891) and Confessions of a Young Man (1888, 1889).
Undated American edition of George Moore’s Confessions of a Young Man (probably 1888), with Sonnenschein (London) and Brentano (Chicago, New York, Paris)) sharing the title page and Brentano alone on the spine. Cover art by Jacques-Emile Blanche.
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