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Ian Fleming. Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, [1953].  First edition. Provocatively...
Ian Fleming. Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, [1953]. First edition. Provocatively...
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Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Cape
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RARE 1935 JONATHAN CAPE ENGLISH FIRST EDITION of ERICH KASTNER CHILDREN
RARE 1935 JONATHAN CAPE ENGLISH FIRST EDITION of ERICH KASTNER CHILDREN'S NOVEL.
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UK Graphic Novel Artists - Life Of Comics Creator Hannah Berry
UK Graphic Novel Artists - Life Of Comics Creator Hannah Berry
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Leonora's Shelves review of Muse by Jonathan Galassi
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Jonathan & Craig- no gi Cape Classic 2015
Jonathan & Craig- no gi Cape Classic 2015
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Jonathan exhibition Cape Classic 2015
Jonathan exhibition Cape Classic 2015
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Haunts From The Cape Vlog #2. Doug and Jonathan freeze to death.
Haunts From The Cape Vlog #2. Doug and Jonathan freeze to death.
Published: 2015/03/01
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立體書: The Human Body
立體書: The Human Body
Published: 2008/05/11
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James Bond Colonel Sun   Audiobook
James Bond Colonel Sun Audiobook
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Borka: The Goose with no Feathers
Borka: The Goose with no Feathers
Published: 2014/07/18
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JONATHAN BUTLER - OPENING OF P4 CAPE TOWN 1997
JONATHAN BUTLER - OPENING OF P4 CAPE TOWN 1997
Published: 2011/09/22
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Jonathan Gershuny of SASFIN Securities talks to Cape Media and BN Radio
Jonathan Gershuny of SASFIN Securities talks to Cape Media and BN Radio
Published: 2012/11/05
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HARD DAYS WORK BY J.CAPE
HARD DAYS WORK BY J.CAPE
Published: 2017/10/04
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Review & Discussion
Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Review & Discussion
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James Bond The Man With The Golden Gun Ian Fleming Audiobook
James Bond The Man With The Golden Gun Ian Fleming Audiobook
Published: 2016/05/31
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Lourensford CAPE TOWN wedding KIRSTY AND JONATHAN
Lourensford CAPE TOWN wedding KIRSTY AND JONATHAN
Published: 2017/10/19
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BOOKSHELF TOUR
BOOKSHELF TOUR
Published: 2013/02/16
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Jonas Blue - Perfect Strangers ft. JP Cooper
Jonas Blue - Perfect Strangers ft. JP Cooper
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GRANDVILLE 5 TEASER V1
GRANDVILLE 5 TEASER V1
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99 Ways to Tell a Story by Matt Madden
99 Ways to Tell a Story by Matt Madden
Published: 2017/11/05
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From Russia, With Love. Ian Fleming. First Edition, 1957. Peter Harrington Rare Books
From Russia, With Love. Ian Fleming. First Edition, 1957. Peter Harrington Rare Books
Published: 2016/01/19
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Madonna's Fall At The Brit Awards - The Jonathan Ross Show
Published: 2015/02/27
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So Happy It Hurts - A Taster of the Book
So Happy It Hurts - A Taster of the Book
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GRANDVILLE Force Majeure
GRANDVILLE Force Majeure
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Everything Is Teeth
Everything Is Teeth
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Poet Alice Oswald reads from Falling Awake
Poet Alice Oswald reads from Falling Awake
Published: 2017/07/08
Channel: Griffin Poetry Prize
Academic standards sub-standard Prof Jonathan Jansen tells Cape Media and BN Radio
Academic standards sub-standard Prof Jonathan Jansen tells Cape Media and BN Radio
Published: 2012/11/07
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CAPE - Animation and Game Design - Unit 1 IA (Jonathan Jackson, Saeed Sattaur, Shane Shewjattan)
CAPE - Animation and Game Design - Unit 1 IA (Jonathan Jackson, Saeed Sattaur, Shane Shewjattan)
Published: 2017/05/08
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My thoughts on Man Booker International 2017 Shortlist
My thoughts on Man Booker International 2017 Shortlist
Published: 2017/04/22
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FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty
FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. 1963. Peter Harrington Rare Books.
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JUST WILLIAM'S LUCK: Fatherland and Seconds
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Published: 2011/04/18
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NBP02: Getting Noticed as a Writer with Jason Donald
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Published: 2017/08/13
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Comics creator Bryan Talbot signing at Forbidden Planet
Comics creator Bryan Talbot signing at Forbidden Planet
Published: 2007/06/04
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Close your Eyes  - book trailer
Close your Eyes - book trailer
Published: 2011/08/22
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January Book Favourites
January Book Favourites
Published: 2014/12/09
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'The Cape' - Jonathan Beech
Published: 2015/01/26
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John Coffin Memorial Poetry Reading by Robin Robertson
John Coffin Memorial Poetry Reading by Robin Robertson
Published: 2012/05/09
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Fleming Bond Books 1st edition, 1st print.
Fleming Bond Books 1st edition, 1st print.
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French Passions: Tom McCarthy on Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Jonathan Butler - Lies (Original 1987 Extended Version
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Jonathan Cape
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Parent company Random House
Founded 1921; 96 years ago (1921)
Founder Herbert Jonathan Cape, Wren Howard
Country of origin United Kingdom
Headquarters location London
Publication types Books

Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960.

Cape and his business partner Wren Howard set up the publishing house in 1921. They established a reputation for high quality design and production and a fine list of English-language authors, fostered by the firm's editor and reader Edward Garnett. Cape's list of writers ranged from poets including Robert Frost and C. Day Lewis, to children's authors such as Hugh Lofting and Arthur Ransome, to James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, to heavyweight fiction by James Joyce and T. E. Lawrence.

After Cape's death, the firm later merged successively with three other London publishing houses. In 1987 it was taken over by Random House. Its name continues as one of Random House's British imprints.

Cape – biography[edit]

Early years[edit]

Jonathan Cape in the late 1950s

Herbert Jonathan Cape was born in London on 15 November 1879, the youngest of the seven children of Jonathan Cape, a clerk from Ireby in what is now Cumbria, and his wife Caroline, née Page.[1][2] He received a basic schooling and in his early teens he was taken on by Hatchards bookshop in Piccadilly as an errand-boy.

Four years later, in 1899, Cape joined the London office of the American publishers Harper and Brothers, where he worked, successively, as clerk, general utility man and travelling salesman, first in the provinces and later in London.[1][2] In 1904 he joined the publishing house of Duckworth as London traveller, and from 1911 as manager.[2] In 1914, on the outbreak of the Great War, he took over the sole charge of the business when the proprietor, Gerald Duckworth, was absent on war duties. In 1915 Duckworth returned. In December of that year Cape joined the army, serving for the rest of the war.[3]

Cape returned to Duckworth in 1918. In 1920 he was appointed manager of the Medici Society, known mainly for publishing prints of paintings but with a small list of books.[2] While in this post he met George Wren Howard, 14 years his junior, who was learning the publishing trade at the Medici Society. Cape's biographer (and sometime junior partner) Rupert Hart-Davis writes:

Cape quickly saw that Howard had a fine sense of design in book production, as well as a good business head; the two became friends and allies. After some months they decided that there was no future for them where they were, and that they had better start a new firm of their own.

Independent publisher[edit]

Howard was able to raise money from his family. Cape, with no such option, raised his share of the starting capital by selling cheap paperback reprints of novels by Elinor Glyn. Duckworth held the rights to her books, but did not wish to issue cut-price editions; Cape negotiated the rights in early 1920 and successfully issued the paperbacks under the imprint Page & Co.[4] With just enough starting capital, the firm of Jonathan Cape began trading on 1 January 1921 at 11 Gower Street, Bloomsbury.

Cape and Howard recruited Edward Garnett as their editor and reader. Garnett, described by The Times as "the prince of publisher's readers," remained with the firm until his death in 1937.[1] Each of the three principals brought his own contribution to the firm's success: Cape was experienced in publishing; Howard ensured high quality design and production; and Garnett was given the freedom to foster talent and build up a fine publishing list. Hart-Davis credits Garnett's literary judgment and Howard's production with gaining the firm an "outstanding reputation for quality during the next two decades".[2]

The firm's first publication was widely regarded as a gamble: Cape published a new two-volume edition, at the high price of nine guineas, of C. M. Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta. The book, first published in 1888 with no success, had been out of print for 30 years. The Cape edition sold out and had to be reprinted several times. Among those who admired it was T. E. Lawrence, who became friendly with Cape, and wrote an introduction to the firm's 1926 single-volume edition of the book.[5] Jonathan Cape Ltd became Lawrence's publishers, issuing Revolt in the Desert (1927), Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1935), and The Mint (1955).[2]

In 1922 Cape took over the small publishing house A. C. Fifield, acquiring the rights to works by such authors as H. G. Wells, W. H. Davies, Sidney Webb and Samuel Butler. Cape was among the first British publishers to seek out American authors. Hart-Davis notes that the firm recruited three future Nobel prize-winners – Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, and Eugene O'Neill – as well as many other American writers including H. L. Mencken, Robert Frost, and Margaret Mead.[2] British and other European authors published by Cape included H. E. Bates, Peter Fleming, Robert Graves, Christopher Isherwood, James Joyce, Malcolm Lowry, André Maurois, and Henry Williamson.[2] The firm's best-sellers included Arthur Ransome's adventure books, Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle stories, and most profitable of all, Ian Fleming's James Bond series.

Marriage and family[edit]

Cape was three times married and three times widowed. In 1907 he married Edith Louisa Creak, with whom he had two daughters. Edith Cape died in 1919. In 1927 Cape married Olyve Vida James, with whom he had a son and a daughter; Olyve Cape died in 1931. In 1941 he married Kathleen Mary Webb, with whom he had a son; Kathleen Cape died in 1953.[2]

Cape suffered two strokes in 1954, which impaired his speech, but he fought his way back to health. He was still running the firm when he celebrated his 80th birthday in November 1959. He died suddenly at his London flat three months later.[1] He was buried at Petersham.[6]

The firm after Cape[edit]

As the 1960s progressed, the firm successfully courted and published authors who were representative of the age, including the Beatle John Lennon,[7] and the former "angry young man" Kingsley Amis.[8] Cape also signed up Len Deighton, whose series of spy novels was a gritty alternative to the far-fetched adventures of James Bond.[9] In the 1970s, Cape published popular authors in many genres, including the novelists J. G. Ballard and Salman Rushdie, and the children's writer Roald Dahl.

A defensive merger with Chatto and Windus was carried out in 1969;[10] and The Bodley Head and Virago Press were added to the group. In 1987 Cape was taken over and became an imprint of Random House.[11]

Cape Editions[edit]

For this book series, see Cape Editions.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Mr Jonathan Cape", The Times, 11 February 1960, p. 15.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Hart-Davis, Rupert. "Cape, (Herbert) Jonathan (1879–1960)", rev. Jonathan Rose, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 24 April 2013 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  3. ^ Howard, p. 21
  4. ^ Howard, p. 54.
  5. ^ "Jonathan Cape Ltd", The Times, 16 April 1926, p. 8.
  6. ^ Lyttelton, p. 25.
  7. ^ Howard, p. 301.
  8. ^ Howard, p. 243.
  9. ^ Howard, p. 300.
  10. ^ "The Times Diary", The Times, 15 May 1969, p. 8.
  11. ^ Howard, Philip. "Small is beautiful in Graham Greene's book", The Times, 13 October 1987, p. 1.

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