George W Bacon and Company

industry:
Publisher
Nationality:
British

George Washington Bacon, London-based bookseller and publisher, producing maps, atlases and Cabinet card photographs; Bacon & Co acquired map publisher J Wyld in 1893; around 1900 became part of Scottish publishing house of W & A K Johnston.

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Broadsheet, printed, hand-coloured engravings, 'The Atlantic Telegraph', describing the laying of the first successful transatlantic telegraph cables, published by Bacon & Co, 48 Paternoster Row, London, England, 1866.

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