Publishing History
Angus & Robertson began publishing in 1888 in Australia. Their first work was a book of verse, A crown of wattle, written by a Sydney solicitor, H. Peden Steel. In the early years of publishing to 1900, Angus and Robertson developed a highly successful and profitable marketing formula and mix of products: a mixture of literary publishing together with educational publishing, plus active marketing by distributing large numbers of review copies. They also published valuable reference works, including the Australian Encyclopaedia and John Alexander Ferguson's multi-volume Bibliography of Australia. In 1938 A&R opened a publishing office in London.
As a publisher, Angus & Robertson has played a substantial role in shaping Australian literature by publishing, to huge sales, works by popular Australian authors such as Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, C. J. Dennis, Norman Lindsay, Frank Clune, Ion Idriess, Arthur Upfield, Frank Dalby Davison, E.V. Timms, and children's writers Dorothy Wall and May Gibbs.
George Robertson died in 1933, and he was succeeded as publisher by Walter Cousins (to 1948) and George Ferguson (to 1971).
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