1. Hotten had opened a small bookshop at London at 151b Piccadilly the year before Chatto joined the firm; Hotten diversified into publishing, with Chatto learning the trade alongside him.
13 Facts About Andrew Chatto
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Windus was a silent partner, leaving the business decisions to Andrew Chatto and living for some of the time on the Isle of Man.
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Peters contrasted Andrew Chatto who was not only an active and successful publisher, but an honest one, compared with Hotten, who was something of a rogue.
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Andrew Chatto made ruthless use of this knowledge to pirate works by American authors, as few had taken any steps to copyright their work in England.
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One of the Hotten's victims was Mark Twain, but Andrew Chatto managed to establish good relations with him and they became good friends.
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Andrew Chatto worked his charm with other authors, and Robert Louis Stevenson said: If you don't know that you have a good author, I know I have a good publisher.
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In 1876, Andrew Chatto brought in Percy Spalding to help him manage the firm.
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Andrew Chatto bought the rights to the existing works of popular novelists such as Ouida and Wilkie Collins, and then reprinting them in cheap editions.
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Andrew Chatto's strategy was to dramatically increase the firm's share of the novel market, and be the first choice for novelists.
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Andrew Chatto published The Idler from 1892 to 1911, and he handled The Gentleman's Magazine.
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Andrew Chatto retired from publishing in 1912, and died 15 March 1913, at his daughter's home.
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In dying the year after he retired, Andrew Chatto was following the example of Windus, who retired from the firm in 1909 and died on 7 June of the following year.
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Andrew Chatto was cremated at Golders Green on 18 March 1913.