Download or read book The House of Putnam, 1837-1872 written by Ezra Greenspan and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2002 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the story of one of the great publishing firms of nineteenth-century America and one of the founding figures of modern American publishing. George Palmer Putnam played a central role in founding and running his publishing house and in organizing book publishers into a more centralized industry. Putnam concentrated the publishing activities of his house around a commitment to patronizing American authorship and improving the standard of American bookmaking.