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Tauchnitz

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[toukh-nits] / ˈtaʊx nɪts /

noun

  1. Karl Christoph Traugott 1761–1836, and his son, Karl Christian Philipp 1798–1884, German printers and publishers.


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Speaking of books, all the red Tauchnitz books used for tradecraft in Saul Berenson’s library are from my father’s collection.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2020

The only items in it that could be called propaganda, in a stretched sense of that word, were its paid advertisements of Tauchnitz books, sporting articles, wearing apparel, souvenirs and the like.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hergesheimer appears in the paper covers of Tauchnitz or his supplanter, beloved of globe-trotters�Three Soldiers is seen Teutonified to Drei Soldaten�Theodore Dreiser's Twelve Men makes a Gallic bow as Douse Hommes.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1934 Tauchnitz was merged with its most powerful rival, the Albatross Modern Continental Library, managed by John Holroyd-Reece, onetime British cavalry officer, founder of the arty Pegasus Press and the Pantheon Series.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bice sat alone somewhat pensively with one of those favourite Tauchnitz volumes from which she had obtained her knowledge of English life in her hand.

From Sir Tom by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)