The Ideal Publishing Union

The Ideal Publishing Union
The Ideal Publishing Union, Ltd.
IndustryPublishing
Genre
Incorporated1894
Founded1888 (1888)
FounderArnold Hills
Defunct16 November 1906 (1906-11-16)
Headquarters
Key people

The Ideal Publishing Union was a London-based publisher associated with the temperance and vegetarianism movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in 1888 by Arnold Hills and incorporated in 1894, it expanded its activity in periodical publishing after acquiring The Vegetarian (a weekly newspaper) and The Vegetarian Review (a quarterly magazine), and launched the humorous illustrated monthly The Merry-go-Round. Its directors included Hills (chairman), Josiah Oldfield, and Charles W. Forward (managing director). The company operated from London addresses including Memorial Hall in Farringdon Street and 33 Paternoster Row, where it was also connected with the National Temperance Publication Depot. It was dissolved on 16 November 1906.

History

The creation of The Ideal Publishing Union was funded by the temperance and vegetarianism activist Arnold Hills in 1888.[1] The company was originally based at Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, London and later 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) and The Vegetarian Review (a quarterly magazine), together with the associated printing and publishing business, and to establish a new humorous illustrated monthly magazine, The Merry-go-Round. The notice named Hills (chairman), Josiah Oldfield, and Charles W. Forward (managing director) as directors.[4]

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

The company was dissolved on 16 November 1906.[6]

Publications

The Ideal Publishing Union published literature connected with temperance and vegetarianism.[3] Publications issued included Charles W. Forward's Fifty Years of Food Reform (1898), a history of the British vegetarian movement.[7] It also published works by the physician and reformer Josiah Oldfield.[8][9]

Vegetarian Jubilee Library

Charles W. Forward edited the 12-volume Vegetarian Jubilee Library series, issued from 1897 to 1900 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vegetarian Society in 1897, intended to make leading vegetarian works widely accessible.[10][11]

  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. Kingford, Anna Bonus (1898). The Ideal in Diet: Selections From the Writings of Anna Bonus Kingsford. OCLC 915635277.
  10. Forward, Charles W. (1898). Dulce Sodalitum: 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.[12]

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. ^ a b 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 Bookseller". The Bookseller. 41. J. Whitaker: 15. 1898.
  6. ^ "Notice of dissolution" (PDF). The London Gazette. 16 November 1906. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  7. ^ Forward, Charles W. (1898). Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. London: The Ideal Publishing Union.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Fruitarian Society: Publications". The Order of the Golden Age. 23 September 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
  10. ^ "New Books". Food, Home and Garden. 1–3. 1897.
  11. ^ "Vegetarian Federal Union 1889-1911: Annual Report 1897". International Vegetarian Union. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
  12. ^ "IVU Online Library - Bibliography". International Vegetarian Union. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
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