David Nutt (publisher)

Operating from various locations in London, Nutt specialized in the sale of imported foreign books, catering to prestigious institutions like the British Museum and private collectors.

His firm ventured into publishing in the 1830s, with a focus on foreign market publications, religious and educational texts, antiquarian literature, and scholarly works.

After Alfred's sudden death in 1910, his wife Marie Louise Nutt continued the legacy, publishing renowned authors like Robert Frost.

Financial challenges eventually led to the sale of the firm to Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent and Company in 1916, marking the end of the Nutt family's direct involvement in the publishing enterprise.

That suggestion was supported by Adolphus Asher, a bibliographer and seller of rare books based in Berlin, who offered him a commission to represent him in London.

In the catalogues he wrote and published to sell his books, Nutt demonstrated antiquarian and bibliographical knowledge which led to their being referenced in bibliographies written by Jacques Charles Brunet and Johann G. T.