Bestselling fantasy author J K Rowling and crime novelist and soon-to-be comics writer Ian Rankin have joined Sir Sean Connery in supporting a campaign to help the National Library of Scotland to purchase the John Murray archive. The Edinburgh-born publisher went on to become one of the most famous publishers in British book history, printing Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron. As well as important poets and novelists Murray also published world-changing non-fiction such as Darwin’s Origin of the Species. The literary archive contains material from Darwin, Scott, Babbage, Disraeli, Dickens, Byron, Conan Doyle and more; the NLS plans to digitise much of the work to make it more widely available.
Tue, Apr 24, 2007
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