Jonathan Cape: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Herbert Jonathan Cape
Born	November 15, 1879 • London • England • (Birthday in 2 days)
Died	February 10, 1960 (aged 80) • London • England

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William Morris

British artist and author

William Caxton

William Caxton

English printer, translator, and publisher

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Sir Victor Gollancz

British author and publisher

Pine, John: engraving

John Pine

English engraver

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John Lehmann

British poet

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Stephen Day

American printer

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Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn, 2nd Baronet

British publisher

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Edward Blount

English publisher

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Wynkyn de Worde

English printer

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Henry Richard Vizetelly

British-Italian publisher

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Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf

German publisher

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Alexander MacMillan

Scottish publisher

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Daniel MacMillan

Scottish publisher

Rupert Murdoch wearing glasses, a black suit, white shirt, and black tie, posing at the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.

Rupert Murdoch

Australian-born American publisher

British publisher Robert Maxwell in a suit and patterned tie, seated and looking to his right, 1991.

Robert Maxwell

Czechoslovak-born British publisher

Walter Hines Page, detail of a portrait by P.A. de Laszlo; in the collection of the Department of Archives and History, North Carolina

Walter Hines Page

American author and diplomat

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Henri II Estienne

French scholar and printer

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Aldus Manutius

Italian printer

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Robert Foulis

Scottish printer

Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf

American publisher