Burns & Oates

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Burns & Oates
Parent company Continuum
StatusDefunct
Founded1835
Founder James Burns
Defunct1 July 2000
Successor Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin United Kingdom
Headquarters location London
Publication types Books
Nonfiction topicsReligion
Imprints Burns & Oates

Burns & Oates was a British Roman Catholic publishing house which most recently existed as an imprint of Continuum.

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Company history

It was founded by James Burns [1] in 1835, originally as a bookseller. Burns was of Presbyterian background and he gained a reputation as a High Church publisher, producing works by the Tractarians.

In 1847 his business was put in jeopardy when he converted to Catholicism, but the firm was fortunate to receive the support of John Henry Newman, who chose the firm to publish many of his works. The clerics Thomas Edward Bridgett and Ambrose St. John claimed that Newman wrote his novel Loss and Gain specifically to assist Burns. [2]

After a while trading as Burns, James Burns took a partner, renaming the company Burns & Lambert. In 1866 they were joined by a younger man, William Wilfred Oates, making the company Burns, Lambert & Oates and later Burns & Oates. Oates was another Catholic convert, and had previously co-founded the publishing house of Austin & Oates based in Bristol. Burns & Oates passed to his son Wilfred Oates, whose sister Mother Mary Salome became one of the firm’s most successful authors. The company was designated "Publishers to the Holy See" by Pope Leo XIII. For a number of decades a related firm published under the name Burns, Oates & Washbourne [3]

In the United States the company's agent was The Catholic Publications Society of New York.

Burn & Oates became defunct on 1 July 2000, when Continuum acquired the company's publishing list for £100,000. Continuum were in turn bought out by Bloomsbury Publishing in July 2011. [4] [5]

Book series

Certain series are jointly publisher by Herder and Herder, New York.

References

  1. ↑ Alderson, Brian. "Some Notes on James Burns as a Publisher of Children's Books" (PDF). Bulletin John Rylands Library. p. 122. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2020– via escholar.manchester.ac.uk.
  2. ↑ Newman, John Henry (2012). Lipscombe, Trevor (ed.). Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. xviii. ISBN   978-1-58617-705-8. OCLC   774493148.
  3. ↑ Publisher: Burns & Oates, isfdb.org. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  4. ↑ "The Continuum International Publishing Group Limited - Full group accounts made up to 30 June 2000, page 17 (filed 3 May 2001)". Companies House. Cardiff. 3 May 2001. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  5. ↑ Milliot, Jim (11 June 2011). "Bloomsbury buys Continuum for £20 million". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  6. ↑ se:Bellamine Series, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  7. ↑ se:Bellarmine Series, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  8. ↑ "The Bible for Children" Burns Oates, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  9. ↑ "calvert series" burns oates, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  10. ↑ "Cardinal Books" Burns Oates, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  11. ↑ se:Catholic Bibliographical Series, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  12. ↑ The Catholic girl in the world. Second series, etc, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  13. ↑ se:Catholic scripture manuals, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  14. ↑ "Clarion Books" Burns Oates, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  15. ↑ "clifton tracts" oates, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  16. ↑ se:Faith and Fact Books, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  17. ↑ se:Faith and fact books : catholic truth in the scientific age, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  18. ↑ "Golden Library" Burns Oates, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  19. ↑ se:Granville popular library, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  20. ↑ Granville Series Burns, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  21. ↑ Penance and the anointing of the sick, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  22. ↑ "History of the Primitive Church" Burns Oates, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  23. ↑ se:Household of God series, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  24. ↑ "Leisure Crafts Series" Burns Oates, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  25. ↑ "Liberation and Theology" Burns, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  26. ↑ "men of god", worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  27. ↑ Classified advertisement, in: Liverpool Daily Post (Merseyside ed.), 23 November 1966, p. 5.
  28. ↑ se:Burns Oates' nature & science series, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  29. ↑ se:The New Library of Catholic Knowledge, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  30. ↑ "Orchard Books" Burns Oates, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  31. ↑ "Paternoster Series" Burns Oates, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  32. ↑ se:The pilgrim's sketch books, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  33. ↑ The Popes through History. Edited by Raymond H. Schmandt, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  34. ↑ "Present Problems Series" Burns Oates, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  35. ↑ se:Quaestiones disputatae series, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  36. ↑ https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=%22Quarterly+Series%22+Burns+Oates&offset=1 "Quarterly Series" Burns Oates], worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  37. ↑ Saint Augustine, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  38. ↑ se:Scripture textbooks for Catholic Schools, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  39. ↑ se:Treasury of the faith series, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  40. ↑ True wayside tales. Fourth series, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  41. ↑ "Vision Books" Burns, worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2025.

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