Orbis Publishing
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Company history
Orbis Publishing Limited was founded in 1970. The company was originally registered on 25 November 1969 under the name Reefdell Limited with the company director and secretary named as Stanley Harold Davis, of 3-5 Leonard Street, City Road, London E.C.2. and the office manager named as David Ordish of the same address.[1] On 1 June 1970 the name of the company was changed to Orbis Publishing Limited and the company secretary was at that date named as S. D. Davis.[1] In 1972 the firm's office was located at 49 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HP.[2]
Orbis employed many writers, researchers, academics, designers, artists and photographers to create the contents for the issues in their various partworks series, including John Gooders, a prolific writer of books on birdlife, who was a consultant editor to Orbis's partwork series The Encyclopaedia of Birds, his work there being so successful as "to merit and entension, requiring Gooders to write a further 12,000 words a week for each of the 26 additional issues".[3]
Partworks publishing was a highly competitive market and for the launch of its partwork series, World of Wildlife in 1971, Orbis Publishing spent "£110,000 for television commercials and another £12,000 for full-page advertisements in the nationals - all crammed into a single message-laden week".[4]
Books published by Orbis Publishing Limited, London often appeared under the imprint of Orbis Books.[5]
Orbis Publishing was merged into De Agostini UK Ltd in 1999 after being acquired by the Italian De Agostini group.
Partworks
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Albums
Some magazine partworks were published accompanied with compilation albums.[10]
- The History of Rock (40 volume compilation of vinyl records or audio cassettes) 1981-1987[11]
- The Blues Collection (CD) 1993-1997[12]
Book series
References
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- ↑ a b DE AGOSTINI UK LIMITED - Filing History, gov.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ↑ Postage stamps : modern history in the mail, worldcat.org. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ↑ "John Gooders" (obituary), The Daily Telegraph, 19 July 2010, p. 25.
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- ↑ Roccoco: A Style of Fantasy, worldcat.org. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ↑ UK Aircraft Magazines, aeroflight.co.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
- ↑ Partworks, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
- ↑ Dinosaurs - Orbis Play and Learn Collection, ukprintarchive.com. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
- ↑ Bugs - Orbis Play and Learn Collection, ukprintarchive.com. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
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- ↑ "Leisure Library" + Orbis, worldcat.org. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ↑ se:Connoisseur's library (Orbis Publishing Limited), worldcat.org. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ↑ SSEES Occasional Papers Orbis, worldcat.org. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
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