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Thacker, Spink & Co. was Indian publishing house headquartered in Calcutta, India.[1] It was founded in the 1840s (CHECK DATE).
Book series
[edit]- Calcutta Oriental Series
- The Commando Books[2]
- The Rampart Library of Good Reading
- Thacker's Dumpy Books for Children
- Thacker's Hand-books of Hindostan
SOURCES
Thacker, Spink, & Co.
The Calcutta (Kolkata) branch of William Thacker & Co. of 2, Newgate Street, London. Their Calcutta partner, William Spink, was a Justice of the Peace. In 1931, the British firm went bankrupt, and Thacker, Spink passed into the hands of the Sengupta family.
-- Rimi B. Chatterjee
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198606536.001.0001/acref-9780198606536-e-4818
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WorldCat Identities - entries
Thacker, Spink & Co published: 1853-2001 (Fiction) http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n87932183/
Thacker, Spink and Co published: 1884-1899 (Poetry) http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/nc-thacker%20spink%20and%20co/
Thacker, Spink & Co (Calcutta) (Pictorial works) http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/nc-thacker%20spink%20&%20co%20calcutta/
THACKER, SPINK & CO. (Calcutta, Inde) published: 1897 (Maps) http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/nc-thacker%20spink%20&%20co%20calcutta%20inde/
Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co (History) http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/nc-messrs%20thacker%20spink%20&%20co/
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Thacker, Spink & Co., oxfordreference.com. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
- ^ Commando Books (Thacker & Co.) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
Further reading
[edit]- Thomas Pinney and David Alan Richards, eds., Kipling and his First Publisher: Correspondence of Rudyard Kipling With Thacker, Spink and Co., 1886-1890, High Wycombe, Bucks.: Rivendale Press, 2001.
External links
[edit]Category:Book publishing companies of India Category:Books about British India Category:Publishing companies established in the 1840s