- Bowes & Bowes
Bowes & Bowes was a celebrated bookselling and publishing company based in Cambridge, England. It was established by
Robert Bowes (1835–1919), a nephew ofDaniel Macmillan (1813–1857 — the founder, with "his" brother Alexander, in 1843, of Macmillan & Co., another successful bookshop in Cambridge). The company became known as ‘Bowes & Bowes’ only in 1907, following George Brimley Bowes’s (Robert Bowes’s son’s) becoming a partner in the firm in 1899. The firm continued as a family business until 1953 when it was acquired by W H Smith, who continued to operate it under the original name until 1986. In that year the business’s name was changed to Sherratt & Hughes.The Bowes & Bowes site at 1, Trinity Street, Cambridge has a claim to be the oldest bookshop in the country, books having been sold there since 1581. Since the closure of Sherratt & Hughes in 1992, the site has been the home of the
Cambridge University Press bookshop.In its heyday the firm’s backlist included the names of
Erich Heller , who was also the general editor of a series of books published by Bowes & Bowes (‘Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought’, some of which were printed in the Netherlands) and by far their most prestigious author, and ofEdwin Keppel Bennett .ee also
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