The manager of the company was F. R. Henderson, who later ran the left-wing bookshop on Charing Cross Road popularly nicknamed 'The Bomb Shop'.

He became associated with the Free Age Press, which had the agency for Tolstoy's writings, and distributed them at such low prices that they could not have made a profit.

The firm also issued a series of 'People's Classics' (at 1d or 2d a copy) 'printed to place in the hands of the masses, at the cheapest price, the richest thoughts of the world's greatest thinkers'.

[5] 'The Cranks' Table' was an unofficial luncheon club that met in a Bride Street vegetarian restaurant, and discussed the problems facing the world.

In 1909 he published his book Instead of Socialism, which attacked the authoritarian tendencies of socialist thinkers, and was based on the teachings of Proudhon, and on the economic theories of Henry George.

Most of these books were published on a subsidy basis, with the author underwriting the costs of publication, or guaranteeing to buy a set number of copies.

The journalist James Douglas, who had previously incited prosecution for indecency of The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence,[8] wrote in the magazine London Opinion: A thoroughly poisonous book, every copy of which ought to be put on the fire forthwith, is Despised and Rejected, by A. T. Fitzroy – probably a pen-name.

After the trial, Daniel published a pamphlet defending himself against charges of immorality, and claiming that he had not realised the sexual implications of Allatini's book.

These included Søren Kierkegaard and the psychologists Alfred Adler and Georg Groddeck, as well as a range of British high-thinkers and simple-lifers.

Its long list of contributors includes Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, John Middleton Murry, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bowen, Rayner Heppenstall and Dylan Thomas among lesser-known names.

In 1934 the company relaunched the magazine Healthy Life, dedicated to 'the release of health for the joy of living'; Daniel wrote articles promoting natural cures and food reform.

In more recent years the firm has been taken over by Random House, whose website states: We are pleased to now be publishing the complete catalogue of CW Daniel Books.