Vigo Street

[1][4] Publishers John Lane and Elkin Mathews were in partnership in Vigo Street.

When the partnership between Lane and Mathews ended, both continued to have premises in Vigo Street and Mathews published the first editions of a number of important literary works, including The Wind Among the Reeds by W. B. Yeats in 1899 Chamber Music by James Joyce in 1907.

[5] It was from 8 Vigo Street that Allen Lane founded Penguin Books as part of Bodley Head in 1935.

[6] In Conan Doyle's The Lost World, 1912, a South American adventure, Lord John Roxton, turns down Vigo street and 'through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery' to his Albany chambers.

In Graham Greene's The End of the Affair, 1951, the private detective agency Bendrix approaches is located at 159 Vigo Street.

The start of Vigo Street, looking east towards Regent Street. The Penguin Books plaque is on the brick building on the right.
Location of Vigo Street within London.
The plaque marking the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Penguin Books at 8 Vigo Street.