Abstract
The United Church of Canada Board of Publication Collection: A Major Resource for the History of the Book in Canada
Highlights
Due to natural disasters and publishers' neglect, the extant records of nineteenth-century Canadian publishing houses are not abundant
The surviving documents pertaining to the Methodist Book and Publishing House include the Journals of the Book and Publishing Committee,4 the book steward's records, business and financial records, legal records, labour records, correspondence, and agreements with authors and publishers
The United Church Publishing House - the successor to the Methodist Book and Publishing House; and the general literature published by the chur·ch's trade imprint the Ryerson Press
Summary
Conference sent Ryerson to New York with $700.oo to buy a wooden hand-press and type. The confidential Quadrennial Reports of the Western Section of the Book Committee, 1878-1906, were prepared for members attending the General Conferences of the church They are an essential source of financial and circulation data and for information about technological developments within the house. The Stock Book from the 1890s lists the wide range of authors and titles carried by the Methodist Book and Publishing House along with the names of the various British and American publishers with whom the house did business This stock book shows, for example, that the house carried the works of Charles Darwin even though it was the 'evolutionary challenge' which posed the most serious threat to the church in the late nineteenth century. The house soon realized the value of the work, and ananged a royalty agreement with him. (Courtesy of the United Church of Canada / Victona College ArchivesI Toronto.)
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