FAUSTUS

[Manuscript] Memorandum of an Agreement .. .[ Rev. C.K. Paul with Henry S. King & Co, publishers], signed "C. Kegan Paul", later publisher.

Author: 
C. Kegan Paul, clergyman and, later, publisher
Publication details: 
[London], 23 Dec. 1872
£120.00

One page, sm. folio, good condition, regarding a "new translation of 'Faust'" by Kegan Paul for two thirds of theprofit. As Kegan Paul's autobiogrphy reveals, he was a reader for Henry S. King "for some time past [and] took a more intimate post in the business " in 1874. He later bought the business and established Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.

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