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publisher|ˈpʌblɪʃə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who publishes or makes something public; one who declares, announces, or proclaims publicly. Now rare.
1453in Ep. Acad. Oxon. (O.H.S.) I. 320 The first publisheris of the seide sclandirful noysyng. 1538Elyot, Præco, onis, a cryar, a publysshar of thynges. 1554Let. Q. Mary to Justices in Norfolk in Burnet Hist. Ref. (1681) II. Rec. ii. No. 14. 259 The Authors and Publishers of these vain Prophesies and untrue Bruits. 1646H. Lawrence Comm. Angells 138 Preachers and publishers of peace. 1796Look at Home 13 The Publisher of the Gospel of the Grace of God. 1878Newcomb Pop. Astron. ii. i. 106 The first publisher of a result or discovery, supposing such result or discovery to be honestly his own, now takes the place of the first inventor.
2. One who publishes a book or literary work:
a. One who as author, or esp. as editor, gives it to the public; ‘one who puts out a book into the world’ (J.). Now rare.
1654Whitlock's Zootomia, The Publisher [Sir John Birkenhead] to the Reader. 1657Rawley Bacon's Resuscitatio (1661) 181 Written by his Lordship in Latin; and Englished by the Publisher. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xv. (Roxb.) 25/1 Publisher, is one that causeth a booke to be printed after the death of the author. 1726Swift Gulliver, The Publisher to the Reader. The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend. 1775Johnson Journ. West. Isl. Wks. 1816 VIII. 353, I have yet supposed no imposture but in the publisher.
b. Comm. One whose business is the issuing of books, newspapers, music, engravings, or the like, as the agent of the author or owner; one who undertakes the printing or production of copies of such works, and their distribution to the booksellers and other dealers, or to the public. (Without qualification generally understood to mean a book-publisher or (in the U.S.) also a newspaper proprietor.)
1740Dyche & Pardon, Publisher,..among the Booksellers, is one that has his name put at the bottom of pamphlets, news-papers, &c. though the property is in another person, to whom he is accountable for the sale, &c. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) III. 392/1 Petty dealers, or venders of small ware, like our publishers. 1802Montefiore (title) The Law of Copyright, being a Compendium of Acts of Parliament and Adjudged Cases, relative to Authors, Publishers, Printers [etc.]. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xxxi. (ed. 3) 315 The Publisher, is a bookseller; he is, in fact, the author's agent. 1836Act 6 & 7 Will. IV, c. 76 §20 Be it enacted, That the Printer, Publisher, or Proprietor of every Newspaper shall, within Twenty-eight Days after the last Day of every Calendar Month, pay or cause to be paid the Duty chargeable on all and every Advertisement..contained in or published with such Newspaper. 1840Hood Up Rhine Introd. 1 On learning from my Publisher that in one short fortnight the whole impression of the present work had been taken off his hands. 1911Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 6 Apr. 11 Connecticut Publisher Dead. F. R. Swift, owner of the Bridgeport and Waterbury Herald, died last week. 1920Ld. Northcliffe Let. May in W. F. Johnson George Harvey (1929) xxxvii. 383 Misunderstandings due to different meanings of the same words are among the basic difficulties of Anglo-American relations. Just now there is a discussion about the price of paper in which the use of the word ‘publisher’ for ‘newspaper owner’ confuses our people. 1949Manch. Guardian Weekly 3 Nov. 2/2 Publishers and big advertising agencies in New York..are laying off salesmen, art staff, and layout men. 1974Lebende Sprachen XIX. 39/1 US publisher (of a newspaper)—BE (newspaper) proprietor. Zeitungsverleger (und besitzer).
3. One who puts anything into circulation; e.g. one who issues counterfeit paper money or the like; an ‘utterer’. rare.
1828in Webster.
4. a. attrib. and Comb., as publisher dealer, publisher-fighter.
1897Q. Rev. July 93 How many of the modern publisher-fighters would work a proud heart to death in paying off a colossal debt? 1902Daily Chron. 19 Nov. 3/4 The French publisher-dealers of the [eighteenth] century.
b. publisher's (or publishers') binding, a uniform binding provided for an edition of a book before it is offered for sale; publisher's (or publishers') cloth, a publisher's binding in which cloth is used as the covering material.
1901D. Cockerell Bookbinding i. 20 For a permanent publisher's binding, something like that recommended for libraries..is suggested. 1924M. Sadleir in Bookman's Jrnl. Feb. 154/1 It is obvious that no ‘publisher's binding’, in the accepted sense of lettered durability, was known [in the eighteenth century]. 1928E. P. Goldschmidt Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings I. 35 If the bindings with publishers' names or marks are ‘original publishers' bindings’..then surely all such bindings must contain books published by the man who signed the binding. 1974R. McLean Victorian Publishers' Book-Bindings 7 This is a picture book showing the richness of publishers' bindings principally in cloth or leather, produced in Britain during the nineteenth century.
1921T. J. Wise Bibliogr. Writings J. Conrad (ed. 2) i. 44 If only collectors would refrain from purchasing copies of Conrad's books unless they are in the original publishers' cloth,..their position would be perfectly safe. 1935J. Carter (title) Publisher's cloth: an outline history of publisher's binding in England 1820–1900. 1972P. Gaskell New Introd. Bibliogr. 246 The more fanciful styles of publishers' cloth included gilt blocking over the whole area of the covers.
Hence nonce-wds. ˈpublisheress, a female publisher; ˈpublishership, the position or function of a publisher.
1851Fraser's Mag. XLIV. 27 Authorship and publishership have become so identified in one common interest. 1888Bow Bells Weekly 15 June 376/2 Mrs. Frank Leslie, the American publisher (or publisheress). |