William Lane

(1746-1814)

NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Lane, William (1745/6-1814), publisher LBT ID: WiLane1814 VIAF ID: 28276841	B/BAP: 1746 DIED: 1814-01-29
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File
London publisher who issued romances under his Minerva Press imprint and operated a pioneering circulating library.
REFERENCES TO William Lane: Walter Scott to John Murray, 30 October 1808 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Isaac D’Israeli to John Murray, 4 August 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. I. 1756-1785 Found 1: ¶ 54 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter IV. Chap. XXII.