Editing Charles Elkin Mathews

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'''Charles Elkin Mathews''' (1851<ref name="Wilhelm2010">{{cite book|author=Wilhelm, J.J.|title=Ezra Pound in London and Paris, 1908-1925|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UpmBwzOT7hwC&pg=PA5|date=2010|publisher=Penn State Press|isbn=978-0-271-04099-8|pages=5}}</ref> &ndash; 10 November 1921) was a British [[publisher]] and [[bookseller]] who played an important role in the literary life of London in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Mathews was born in [[Gravesend, Kent|Gravesend]], and learned his trade in [[London]] and [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]. In 1884 he opened his own shop in [[Exeter]], where he published his first books in collaboration with other local booksellers.

In 1887 he returned to London, and [[John Lane (publisher)|John Lane]] and he went into partnership and founded [[The Bodley Head]], which first operated as an antiquarian bookshop and later as a publisher. In 1894 they published ''[[The Yellow Book]]'' and from 1893 they published the Keynotes book series.<ref>[https://www.publishinghistory.com/keynotes-john-lane-bodley-head-elkin-mathews.html Keynotes series (John Lane/The Bodley Head; etc.) - Book Series List], publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 13 December 2019.</ref>

In 1892 he published a volume of verse from the [[Rhymers' Club]] titled ''The Book of the Rhymers' Club'' and in 1894 a follow-up volume ''The Second Book of the Rhymers' Club'' was published by him and [[John Lane (publisher)|John Lane]].

In 1894 Mathews left The Bodley Head partnership. He set up on his own as Elkin Mathews Ltd. and published works by his neighbour [[W. B. Yeats]], [[Lionel Johnson]], [[John Masefield]], [[James Joyce]], [[Ezra Pound]] and [[Robert Bridges]], among others. He also "returned to a great concentration on bookselling".<ref>[http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAB8338 Elkin Mathews Ltd. mss., ca. 1919-1987], indiana.edu. Retrieved 10 April 2020.</ref>

He died in 1921.

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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050210101836/http://www.library.rdg.ac.uk/colls/special/elkinmathews.html Papers of Charles Elkin Mathews at the University of Reading] Captured March 7, 2005

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