The Ideal Publishing Union

The Ideal Publishing Union
The Ideal Publishing Union, Ltd.
IndustryPublishing
Genre
FoundedFebruary 1894 (1894-02)
FounderArnold Hills
Defunct16 November 1906 (1906-11-16)
Headquarters
Key people

The Ideal Publishing Union was a British publisher of temperance and vegetarian literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was funded by Arnold Hills and incorporated in 1894 to acquire The Vegetarian and The Vegetarian Review. Its directors included Hills as chairman, Josiah Oldfield, and Charles W. Forward as managing director. The company was based at Memorial Hall in Farringdon Street and later at 33 Paternoster Row. It was dissolved on 16 November 1906.

History

The Ideal Publishing Union was funded by the temperance and vegetarianism activist Arnold Hills.[1] The company was first based at Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, London, and later at 33 Paternoster Row, London.[2][3]

A February 1894 notice in The Vegetarian Messenger reported that the company had been incorporated to acquire The Vegetarian, a weekly newspaper, The Vegetarian Review, a quarterly magazine, and the associated printing and publishing business. The notice also stated that it would publish The Merry-go-Round, a humorous illustrated monthly magazine. It named Hills as chairman, Josiah Oldfield as a director, and Charles W. Forward as managing director.[4]

An 1898 notice in The Bookseller reported that the National Temperance League had transferred its interest in the depot at 33 Paternoster Row to the Ideal Publishing Union. The notice stated that the business would continue under the joint title The National Temperance Publication Depot (Ideal Publishing Union Limited), with H. J. Osborn as manager. It also stated that there would be no immediate changes to its operations, and that the existing manager, Thomas Rowe, would remain for some months.[5]

A 1900 advertisement in The Vegetarian Messenger described it as the "Largest Vegetarian Publishing House in the World".[6]

The company was dissolved on 16 November 1906.[7]

Publications

Advertisement for Fifty Years of Food Reform (1898)

The Ideal Publishing Union published temperance and vegetarian literature.[3] Its publications included Charles W. Forward's Fifty Years of Food Reform (1898), a history of the British vegetarian movement.[8] It also published works by the physician and reformer Josiah Oldfield.[9][10]

Vegetarian Jubilee Library

Charles W. Forward edited the 12-volume Vegetarian Jubilee Library series, issued from 1897 to 1900 for the 50th anniversary of the Vegetarian Society in 1897.[11][12]

  1. Hills, Arnold F. (1897). Vegetarian Essays. OCLC 38857255.
  2. Newton, John Frank (1897). The Return to Nature. OCLC 46486685.
  3. Mayor, John E. B. (1897). Plain Living and High Thinking: Selected Addresses and Sermons. OCLC 38857284.
  4. Smith, John (1897). Fruits and Farinacea: The Proper Food of Man. OCLC 2628860.
  5. Gleizes, Jean Antoine (1897). Thalysie: Or the New Existence. Translated by C. H. Collyns. OCLC 267097830.
  6. Tolstoy, Leo (1897). The Gospel of Humaneness. OCLC 300574590.
  7. Graham, Sylvester (1897). The Physiology of Feeding: Consisting of the Three Lectures on Diet from The Science of Human Life. OCLC 63363130.
  8. Forward, Charles W. (1898). Cameos of Vegetarian Literature: A Collection of Lectures and Essays on Food Reform. OCLC 915635277.
  9. Kingsford, Anna Bonus (1898). The Ideal in Diet: Selections From the Writings of Anna Bonus Kingsford. OCLC 915635277.
  10. Forward, Charles W. (1898). Dulce Sodalitium: A Selection of Stories and Sketches by Vegetarian Writers. OCLC 232009406.
  11. Salt, Henry S. (1898). The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues. OCLC 25359999.
  12. Forward, Charles W. (1900). Vegetariana: A Collection of Facts and Opinions on the Subject of Food Reform.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, James Richard Thomas Elliott (May 2002). "Biographical Index of British Vegetarians and Food reformers of the Victorian Era". The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections (PDF) (PhD thesis). Vol. 2. University of Southampton. pp. 56–57. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  2. ↑ The Vegetarian: A Monthly Magazine Published To Advocate Wholesome Living (PDF). Vol. 3. New York: The Vegetarian Publishing Company. 1898. pp. 40–48. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  3. 1 2 Clegg, James, ed. (1906). The International Directory of Booksellers and Bibliophile's Manual, Including Lists of the Public Libraries of the World, Publishers, Book Collectors, Learned Societies and Institutions, Universities and Colleges. Rochdale: James Clegg, Aldine Press. p. 290.
  4. ↑ Aoyagi, Akiko; Shurtleff, William (26 March 2022). "1705. Vegetarian Messenger (Manchester, England). 1894. The Ideal Publishing Union. Feb. p. 55-57.". History of Vegetarianism and Veganism Worldwide (1430 BCE to 1969): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook (PDF). Soyinfo Center. p. 480. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  5. ↑ "The Committee of the National Temperance League". The Bookseller. 41. J. Whitaker: 15. 1898 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "The Ideal Publishing Union, Limited". The Vegetarian Messenger. 2. 1900.
  7. ↑ "Notice of dissolution" (PDF). The London Gazette. 16 November 1906. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  8. ↑ Forward, Charles W. (1898). Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. London: The Ideal Publishing Union – via Internet Archive.
  9. ↑ Bates, A. W. H. (25 July 2017). "References". A New Age for a New Century: Anti-Vivisection, Vegetarianism, and the Shaping of Modern Britain. University College London Press. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  10. ↑ "Fruitarian Society: Publications". The Order of the Golden Age. 23 September 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
  11. ↑ "New Books". Food, Home and Garden. 1–3. 1897 – via Google Books.
  12. ↑ "Vegetarian Federal Union 1889-1911: Annual Report 1897". International Vegetarian Union. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
  13. ↑ "IVU Online Library - Bibliography". International Vegetarian Union. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
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