Iris Publishing Company

The Iris Publishing Company were a small publishing company located at 30 and 31 , London, in the late nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century. They were associated with The Chichester Press^[1] and specialised in publishing translations of foreign language works into English.

People[]

The founder of the firm was Andree de Keyser.^[2] The manager was her husband, the composer (born 1872), of 16 Carleton Road, Tufnell Park, London, who died while holidaying in Bournemouth in 1917^[3][4] after which the Iris Publishing Company appears to have ceased in business. Alfred is buried at the Wimborne Road Cemetery in Bournemouth where a large monument exists to his memory. Andree de Keyser died in France at Montorel Ingrandes-sur-Loire in 1945.^[5]

Selected titles[]

• Lezinsky, David Lesser. (1894) Daniel, Daddy, Ruth and company.
• de Weerdt, Raymond Colleye. (1915) The spider's web, an exposition of the origin, growth and methods of German 'world-power' madness, with special reference to Belgium.
• West, Julius. (1915) Soldiers of the Tsar and other sketches and studies of the Russia of today.
• Izumo, Takeda. (1916) The pine-tree (Matsu) a drama adapted from the Japanese.
• Laurent, Lea. (1916) Our lady of Belgium (Notre dame de Belgique). (Trans. Elisabeth M. Lockwood)
• West, Julius. (1916) The fountain; or, the De Pootkins family at home and abroad. An initiation into the secrets of the literary trade.

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