Phaidon Press
In 1938, Bela Horovitz and Ludwig Goldscheider founded the Phaidon Press in London. They were supported by Allen & Unwin who originally helped the Phaidon Verlag back in Austria.
Since 1923 Goldscheider and Horovitz worked for Phaidon Verlag which they co-founded with Frederick Ungar. In 1937 Stanley Unwin bought all the stocks of Phaidon to save it from the Nazis. Subsequently he arranged the relocation of the publishing house to London before the Anschluss. On March 01, 1938 Horovitz sold the publishing rights to Unwin, who was the new owner of Phaidon now and could even publish in Germany because he was ‘Aryan’. In a sense they tricked the German regime.
Resources
- Fischer, Ernst: Verleger, Buchhaendler und Antiquare aus Deutschland und Oesterreich in der Emigration nach 1933: ein biographisches Handbuch / von Ernst Fischer. - Stuttgart : Verband Deutscher Antiquare, 2011
- Hall, Murray G. (1984): Österreichische Verlagsgeschichte 1918-1938 http://verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com/
- Spivey, Nigel (1999): Phaidon History http://www.phaidon.com/resource/phaidon-history.pdf
- Wikipedia (2012): Phaidon Press http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaidon_Press
- Wikipedia (2012): Béla Horovitz http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Horovitz
Location: London, Oxford
Period: 1938-today
Publisher(s): Béla Horovitz -- April 18, 1898 Budapest - March 9, 1955 New York; Ludwig Goldscheider -- June 3, 1896 Vienna - June 26, 1973 London
Number of Titles Published: unknown
