In its day it was a highly reputable house in literature, and several U.S. authors were published by it, including Walt Whitman.

[1] The company motto, which it published decoratively and in Latin, on title pages of its books was Scire quod sciendum, and translates as Knowledge worth knowing.

The business was sold at auction to Norman H. White, of Brookline, Massachusetts, owner of the Boston Bookbinding Company.

The book opens, after the facsimile title page, with "Part One, Introductory Statement," and on page 5 of this introduction is the following accounting as to the original source for the translation: Cesare G. De Michelis not only indicates that this imprint is the first US English language editions of "The Protocols," but gives the name of the editor as Boris Brasol, an antisemite whom Robert Singerman called "public enemy" of the Jews.

[4] Norman White, who was then the company's president, later pleaded not guilty to eight indictments in twenty-five counts, charging larceny through false pretenses of $474,500 from eight Boston banks.