Louis Coues Page

Louis Coues Page (1869 – 1956) was a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts. Born in Zurich to American parents, he attended Harvard College and worked for Boston publishers Estes & Lauriat, 1891–1892.[1] In 1896 he bought the Joseph Knight Company and renamed it L.C. Page & Company;[2][3][4] around 1914 it became The Page Company.[5] It issued works of "art, travel, music, belles lettres" and fiction for adults and children.[6] It operated from offices on Beacon Street in Beacon Hill.[7] Authors published by the firm included Bliss Carman, Julia Caroline Dorr, Lucy Maud Montgomery,[8] and Eleanor H. Porter. In 1914 the Page Company acquired Dana Estes & Co.[9]

Portrait of L.C. Page, ca.1910s

Around the 1910s Louis and his brother George A. Page were co-owners of the Boston Braves baseball team.[10]

Page married Kate Stearns in 1895.[11]

Farrar, Straus & Cudahy acquired L.C. Page & Co. in 1957; the imprint continued until 1980.[12]

References
  1. "Boston Record is Sold". The Fourth Estate. NY. February 23, 1918.
  2. "Firms Out of Business". University of Texas Harry Ransom Center and University of Reading Library. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
  3. The Dial, Chicago, May 1, 1900, L.C. Page & Company, Summer Street, Boston
  4. Not to be confused with William Page & Company
  5. The Writer, Boston, January 1914
  6. 1001 places to sell manuscripts, Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, 1915, OL 13988344M, Page Company, 53 Beacon Street, Boston
  7. No. 53 Beacon Street, adjacent to Headquarters House (Boston, Massachusetts). (cf. Boston Register and Business Directory: 1922. Boston, Mass.: Sampson & Murdock Co. 1922.)
  8. Mary Rubio (2008), Lucy Maud Montgomery: the gift of wings, Toronto: Doubleday Canada, ISBN 978-0-385-65983-3
  9. The Writer, Boston, April 1914
  10. Harold Kaese (1948), The Boston Braves, New York: Putnam, OCLC 1328929
  11. Harvard College Class of 1891 Secretary's Report, 1895
  12. "Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc., Records 1885-1997" (PDF). New York Public Library. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
L.C. Page & Co.
The Page Company
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