David Nutt (publisher)#The David Nutt firm in later years

David Samuel Nutt was born in London in 1810.[http://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-98861119/ Nutt, David 1810-1863], worldcat.org. Retrieved 24 October 2021. After attending Merchant Taylor's School, he worked for several years as a clerk with a mercantile firm in London. One of that firm's partners, Edward Moberley, encouraged Nutt to start out as a bookseller. That suggestion was supported by Adolphus Asher, a bibliographer and seller of rare books based in Berlin, who offered him a commission to represent him in London.Crys Armbrust, "David Nutt (1829-1916)", in: Patricia J. Anderson and Jonathan Rose, British Literary Publishing Houses, 1820-1880, Detroit and London: Gale Research, Inc., 1991 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 106), pp. 228-229.

Nutt accepted the commission and began bookselling some time between 1829 and 1833. His first place of business was 90 Bartholomew Close, London[https://books.google.com/books?id=oIouRKLlqlYC&pg=PA226 "Avertisements connected with Literature, Fine Arts, &c.], The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 121, p. 4. Retrieved 25 October 2021. and he would later move his premises to 58 Fleet Street, London, and then in 1848 to 270–271 Strand, London.

Nutt characterised himself variously as a "foreign and classical bookseller"A monthly circular of new books on sale or imported by David Nutt, foreign and classical bookseller, 270 Strand, London, W.C, Leipzig : F.A. Brockhaus, c. 1877. and a "theological and foreign bookseller" and concentrated on the sale of imported foreign books in many of the modern and ancient European and Asian languages. Apart from books then currently in print, he also sold rare books to clients which included the libraries of the British Museum and Oxford and Cambridge universities and private collectors such as George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer and Thomas Grenville. In the catalogues he wrote and published to sell his books, Nutt demonstrated antiquarian and bibliographical knowledge which led to their being referenced in bibliographies written by Jacques Charles Brunet and Johann G. T. Graesse.

Nutt's firm began publishing books in the 1830s. His publishing specialities were books published for the foreign (especially German) market, as well as religious educational, antiquarian, literary and scholarly texts.

In 1851, David Nutt entered a partnership with the German-English publisher, bookseller and linguist Nicholas Trübner.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Alfred Nutt was David's eldest and only surviving son. In 1878 he took over the David Nutt firm, expanded it considerably, and added books on folklore and antiquities to its list of publications.H. R. Tedder, Sayoni Basu, ed., [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35269 Nutt, Alfred Trübner (1856–1910)], oxforddnb.com. Retrieved 22 February 2021. At the turn of the century The Modern Language Quarterly was also published by the firm for the Modern Language Association (Great Britain).H. Frank Heath, [https://archive.org/details/modernlanguageq01britgoog/page/n10/mode/2up The Modern Language Quarterly], Volume V, London: David Nutt, 1902. Retrieved 25 October 2021.

In 1890 the firm moved to a new address at 57-59 Long Acre, "At the Sign of the Phoenix" and in 1912 moved again, to Grape Street, New Oxford Street, London.{{cite DNB12 |wstitle= Nutt, Alfred Trübner |volume= 3 |last= Tedder |first= Henry Richard |author-link= Henry Richard Tedder |pages= 30-31|short=1}}

After Alfred's sudden death in 1910, his wife Marie Louise Nutt became the proprietor. She continued to publish new authors including the poet Robert Frost and the firm became the latter's first publisher when it published his poetry collections A Boy's Will (1913)William H. Pritchard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7Drz3CNhqokC&q=nutt Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered], University of Massachusetts Press, 1993, p. 11. Retrieved 22 February 2021. and North of Boston (1914).{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Financial difficulties forced Mrs. Nutt to sell the firm to Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent and Company in 1916.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

David Nutt married Ellen Clementina Carter, the daughter of Robert Carter and granddaughter of William Miller whose publishing house was a predecessor of John Murray.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

In 1864 Ellen was listed under her married name of Ella Clementina Nutt as the London representative of the German book trade.[https://digital.slub-dresden.de/data/kitodo/Brsfded_39946221X-18640803/Brsfded_39946221X-18640803_tif/jpegs/Brsfded_39946221X-18640803.pdf Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel und die mit ihm verwandten Geschäftszweige], No. 97, 3 August 1864. Retrieved 24 October 2021.

David Nutt died at his home in 1863."Deaths", The Standard, 1 December 1863, p. 7.

• The Ancient East Series
• Argyllshire Series
• Arthurian Romances Unrepresented in Malory's Morte d'Arthur
• Art Lover's Series
• Bibliothèque de Carabas[https://www.publishinghistory.com/bibliotheque-de-carabas-david-nutt.html Bibliothèque de Carabas (David Nutt) - Book Series List], publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
• Country Folk-lore
• Cymmrodorion Record SeriesEdward Clodd, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Folk-Lore/Volume_21/Obituary/Alfred_Nutt "In Memoriam: Alfred Nutt (1856-1910)], Folk-Lore, Vol. 21, No. 2. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
• English History by Contemporary Writers
• Grimm Library
• Method Gaspey-Otto-Sauer
• The Modern Linguist
• New York University Ottendorfer Memorial Series of Germanice Monographs
• Northern Library
• Nutt’s Conversation Dictionaries[http://languagehat.com/jaschke/ Jasch(ke)], languagehat.com. Retrieved 22 February 2021.[http://languagehat.com/phrasebooks-for-the-silk-road/ Phrasebooks for the Silk Road], languagehat.com. Retrieved 22 February 2021."New Books", in: Booksellers' Review, 15 July 1897, p. 9.
• Nutt's Juvenile Library
• Phonetic Series
• Pilgrim Players Series
• Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance & Folklore
• Publications of the Folk-lore Society
• Scottish History from Contemporary Writers
• The Tudor Library
• The Tudor Translations
• Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition
• Woman Citizen's Series

• {{annotated link|Elizabeth and John Nutt}}

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• Crys Armbrust, "David Nutt (1829-1916)", in: Patricia J. Anderson and Jonathan Rose, British Literary Publishing Houses, 1820-1880, Detroit and London: Gale Research, Inc., 1991 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 106), pp. 228–229.

• David Nutt, [https://books.google.com/books?id=rJkIAAAAQAAJ A catalogue of theological books in foreign languages, including the sacred writings ...], London: David Nutt, 1857.

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