Significant publications from the company's first incorporation were George Bernard Shaw's Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant and A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, as well as books by G. K. Chesterton, Saki, Arnold Bennett, Samuel Butler, and Ernest Bramah.
In 1897, the Grant Richards publishing house began publishing the Dumpy Books for Children series of small format books for children.
In these years the firm published works by John Galsworthy, Royall Tyler, James Joyce,[3] Robert Tressell, John Masefield, and Jack Kahane.
[4] It was subsequently bought by John Baker and finally by A & C Black.
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