J. W. Arrowsmith

J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd was a book printer and publisher based in Bristol, England. It became a limited company in 1911, having been an unincorporated company named Arrowsmith. It was closed in 2006. The company published the first edition of the novel Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome in 1889. Also published by J. W. Arrowsmith were: Called Back by Hugh Conway (1883) The Taking of Dover by Horace Francis Lester (1888) Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. Jerome (1891) The Great Shadow by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892) The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith (1892) Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope (1898) Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome (1900)

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