Thomas Nelson & Sons

Thomas Nelson & Sons (aka T. Nelson & Sons) was a Scottish publishing company founded by Thomas Nelson Sr. in 1798 based in Edinburgh, then in London (1844), New York (1854), Paris (1910), Leipzig (1910) and Toronto (1914).

The company was the Edinburgh's most famous publishers who specialised in producing popular literature, children's books, Bibles and religious and educational texts. From its founding to its departure from Scotland in 1968, Nelsons was an established and well-known presence on the Southside, its Parkside Works on Dalkeith Road a major landmark in the Edinburgh cityscape.

Conan Doyle published by T. Nelson

1908

---.---.1908 : The Great Boer War (unpublished version) blue
01.10.1908 : The Great Boer War (Nelson's Shilling Library) blue
See edition comparison.

1911

---.07.1911 : The Refugees (Nelson's Library) red

1912

---.04.1912 : The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales (Nelson's Library) red
---.09.1912 : Micah Clarke (Nelson's Library) red

1913

26.09.1913 : The Sign of Four (Nelson's Library) red
18.10.1913 : The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Nelson's Library) red

1914

13.01.1914 : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Nelson's Library) red
13.10.1914 : The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (Nelson's Library) red

1915

---.---.1915 : The Valley of Fear
---.---.1915 : El Aspecto de la Guerra (Spanish edition) The Outlook on the War
---.---.1915 : Oorlogskiekje (Dutch edition) The Outlook on the War
---.---.1915 : Syn på Kriget (Swedish edition) The Outlook on the War
06.03.1915 : The Hound of the Baskervilles (Nelson's Library) red
10.09.1915 : Adventures of Gerard (Nelson's Library) red

1916

07.01.1916 : The White Company (Nelson's Library) red
---.---.1916 : The Valley of Fear (Nelson Continental Library No. 17)

1917

---.02.1917 : The Last Galley (Nelson's Library) red
---.03.1917 : Rodney Stone (Nelson's Cloth Bound Books 1/-)
---.09.1917 : Adventures of Gerard (Nelson's Cloth Bound Books 7d)

1918

---.04.1918 : The White Company (Nelson's Cloth Bound Books 1/6)
---.08.1918 : The Hound of the Baskervilles (Nelson's Cloth Bound Books 1/6)
---.11.1918 : The Great Boer War (Edinburgh Library of Non-Fiction Books)
28.11.1918 : Through the Magic Door (Edinburgh Library of Non-Fiction Books)

1919

28.02.1919 : Adventures of Gerard (Nelson's Cloth Bound Books 1/-)
---.08.1919 : Micah Clarke (Nelson's Cloth Bound Books 1/6)

1923

---.04.1923 : The Refugees (Nelson's Novels 1/6)

1929

---.04.1923 : The Refugees (Nelson's Cloth Bound Books 2/-)

Covers

The Great Boer War (1908, unpublished version)
The Great Boer War (1908, published version)
The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales (1912)
The Sign of Four (1913)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1913)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1914)
Adventures of Gerard (1915)
Rodney Stone (1917)
Rodney Stone (1917) dustjacket
The Last Galley (1917)
Through the Magic Door (1918)

*The Sign of Good Luck*: Explanations of the swastika symbol on a Nelson's dustjacket (ca. 1910)

Thomas Nelson & Sons published some books with a dextrogyre swastika on the cover. This has nothing to do with the nazi logo and is prior to the nazi period.

The swastika was familiar and trendy in Europe and especially in UK at the end of 19th century and beginning of 20th used as a sign of good luck in many sectors such as companies, publishers, sport teams, pendants, greeting cards, lucky charms, etc... See image on the right for the Nelson's explanation.