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		Burns & Oates	Parent company	Continuum
	Status	Defunct
	Founded	1835
	Founder	James Burns
	Defunct	unknown 
	Successor	Bloomsbury Academic
	Country of origin	United Kingdom
	Headquarters location	London
	Publication types	Books


Burns & Oates was a British Roman Catholic publishing house which most recently existed as an imprint of Continuum. 


Contents


	1 Company history
	2 Book series
	3 References
	4 Further reading
	5 External links





Company history[edit]

It was founded by James Burns[1] in 1835, originally as a bookseller. Burns was of Presbyterian background and he gained a reputation as a High Church publisher, producing works by the Tractarians.

In 1847 his business was put in jeopardy when he converted to Catholicism, but the firm was fortunate to receive the support of John Henry Newman, who chose the firm to publish many of his works. There is a story that Newman's novel Loss and Gain was written specifically to assist Burns.

After a while trading as Burns, James Burns took a partner, renaming the company Burns & Lambert. In 1866 they were joined by a younger man, William Wilfred Oates, making the company Burns, Lambert & Oates and later Burns & Oates. Oates was another Catholic convert, and had previously co-founded the publishing house of Austin & Oates based in Bristol. Burns & Oates passed to his son Wilfred Oates, whose sister Mother Mary Salome became one of the firm’s most successful authors. The company was designated "Publishers to the Holy See" by Pope Leo XIII.

In the United States the company's agent was The Catholic Publications Society of New York.


Book series[edit]

	The Bellarmine Series
	The Bible for Children
	Cardinal Books
	Catholic Bibliographical Series
	Clarion Books
	Early Christian Series
	Faith and Fact Books: Catholic Truth in the Scientific Age Series
	Golden Library
	Herder History of Dogma Series
	A History of Philosophy
	The History of the Primitive Church
	Leisure Crafts Series
	Nature & Science Series for Children
	The New Library of Catholic Knowledge
	The Orchard Books
	Paternoster Series
	Present Problems Series
	Quaestiones Disputatae
	Scripture Textbooks for Catholic Schools
	Vision Book Series


References[edit]


	^ Brian Alderson, Some Notes on James Burns as a Publisher of Children's Books, Bulletin John Rylands Library, escholar.manchester.ac.uk, p. 122. Retrieved 4 November 2020.





Further reading[edit]

	Wilfrid Wilberforce, The House of Burns and Oates. London: Burns and Oates, 1908.
	(Michael Trappes-Lomax), Early Chapters in the History of Burns and Oates. London: privately printed, 1949.


External links[edit]

	James Burns at Library of Congress Authorities, with 1 catalogue records
	Burns and Lambert at LC Authorities (no records, March 2020)
	Burns & Oates at LC Authorities (no records)
	Works by or about Burns & Oates in libraries (WorldCat catalog)


	Authority control 	
	LCCN: no2017014927
	VIAF: 311378618
	 WorldCat Identities: lccn-no2017014927














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