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Status | Defunct |
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Founded | 1897 |
Founder | Herbert Small |
Defunct | 1927 |
Country of origin | ![]() |
Headquarters location | Boston |
Key people | Norman H. White |
Publication types | Books |
Small, Maynard & Company (Small, Maynard and Company in bibliographies) is a defunct publishing house located in Boston. In its day it was a highly reputable house in literature, and several U.S. authors were published by it, including Walt Whitman.
The company opened its doors in 1897 at 6 Beacon St. in Boston. New editions of Whitman's Leaves of Grass and an edition of his complete works among the first to be published, after acquiring the rights to these works from the poet's executors. [1]
The company motto, which it published decoratively and in Latin, on title pages of its books was Scire quod sciendum, and translates as Knowledge worth knowing.
In 1899, Small, Maynard & Co. took over the Copeland & Day publishing house. A year later, founder Herbert Small retired due to ill health.
The business was sold at auction to Norman H. White, of Brookline, Massachusetts, owner of the Boston Bookbinding Company. White left the firm in 1907, but later returned.
In the summer of 1907, the company acquired the Herbert B. Turner & Co. publishing company, which was less than five years old and had specialized in publishing classics such as a new, 13-volume edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's works, as well as theological works by laymen. [2]
Around 1907, the firm specialized in Belles-lettres and biographies. [3]
The house is also known for publishing the first American English language US edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The work carries no editor, translator or name of a compiler; however, it includes an alleged facsimile of a title page, in the Russian language, with a translation on the other side. The translation indicates that the author was Sergei Nilus and the place (apparently of publication) is given as "THE TOWN OF SERGIEV." This town appears to be Sergiev Posad.
The book opens, after the facsimile title page, with "Part One, Introductory Statement," and on page 5 of this introduction is the following accounting as to the original source for the translation:
- Now, for the first time, the document entitled by Mr. Nilus "Protocols of the Meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom" is published in the United States, correctly translated from the Russian text as it appears in Mr. Nilus's book, "It is Near, At the Door," 1917, published in the printing office of the Sviato-Troitzky Monastery.
Cesare G. De Michelis not only indicates that this imprint is the first US English language editions of "The Protocols," but gives the name of the editor as Boris Brasol, an antisemite whom Robert Singerman called "public enemy" of the Jews.
Owing $1,475,569 to creditors, the company filed for bankruptcy on March 1, 1927. [4] Norman White, who was then the company's president, later pleaded not guilty to eight indictments in twenty-five counts, charging larceny through false pretenses of $474,500 from eight Boston banks. [5]
White was later sentenced to 3–5 years in prison for theft of over $369,000 from local banks. [6]
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Sergei Aleksandrovich Nilus was a Russian religious writer and self-described mystic.
Pavel Aleksandrovich Krushevan was a journalist, editor, publisher and an official in Imperial Russia. He was an active Black Hundredist and was known for his far-right, ultra-nationalist and openly antisemitic views and was the first publisher of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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George Shanks (1896–1957) was an expatriate Briton born in Moscow and was the first translator of Protocols of Zion from Russian into English. He was also a founding member of Radio Normandy. George Shanks was the son of Henry Shanks, a well-known British merchant who resided in Moscow. Henry Shanks managed the family firm of Shanks & Bolin, Magasin Anglais established by his father James Steuart Shanks in 1852. As a result of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the family lost their business and home and were forced to return to London. It is believed that the translation was completed during this period in London. His identity was not discovered until 1978; initially, it was believed that Victor E. Marsden was the translator, as his name came to be associated with the British English language translation of the Protocols in pamphlet or booklet form soon after he died in 1920.
Harris Ayres Houghton was a physician and member of the United States military intelligence community during and shortly after World War I. He is notable for having arranged the anonymous translation and publication, from the Russian language into the English language, of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the United States in 1920. The lead title he was responsible for producing was "Praemonitus Praemunitus."
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