Hurst and Blackett was a publisher founded in 1852 by Henry Blackett (26 May 1825 – 7 March 1871), the grandson of a London shipbuilder, and Daniel William Stow Hurst (17 February 1802 – 6 July 1870).
Shortly after the formation of their partnership Hurst and Blackett took over the business of the long established publisher Henry Colburn, for whom Daniel Hurst had worked for some years, and their earliest publications displayed "Successors to Henry Colburn" on the title pages.
[2] Hurst and Blackett were located on Great Marlborough Street, where Henry Colburn had maintained his premises, and later at Paternoster House, Paternoster Row, London and had offices in New York and Melbourne.
It comprised cheap editions of “interesting, informative and entertaining books” of “real merit” for the discriminating general reader in a cloth binding at 3/6d.
My Struggle was previously published by Hurst and Blackett in October 1933 for 18/- and went through ten impressions to January 1934 before being published in a cheap edition in October 1935 and then two more impressions in December 1935 and March 1936.