Swan Sonnenschein Social Science Series, 1884-1912

 

 

Altogether 120 titles were published in the distinguished “Social Science Series” of Swan Sonnenschein & Co. (London) during a quarter of a century that spanned the turn to the twentieth. Special attention was given to moral and ethical aspects of economics and social organization. Socialist ideas and social reform were featured frequently in this series. The volumes of the Social Science Series would have been conspicuous in libraries with their bright scarlet covers imprinted with the Swan Sonnenschein logo (displayed above). This page provides visitors to Economics in the Rear-view Mirror links to 116 of the 120 books.

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Biography of William Swan Sonnenschein
(1855-1934)

William Swan Sonnenschein was born in 1855, third of the six children of Adolphus Sonnenschein, a teacher and writer of textbooks originally from Moravia, and his first wife Sarah Robinson Stallybrass. William’s name derived from the fact that his maternal grandfather, Edward Stallybrass, had been a missionary to Mongolia with William Swan and they worked on a Mongolian translation of the New Testament together.

As a young man William was apprenticed to the firm of Williams and Norgate where he gained experience of second hand bookselling before founding his own company, W. Swan Sonnenschein & Allen, with the first of several partners, J. Archibald Allen, in 1878. This partnership was dissolved in 1882 when William married and the firm’s name changed to W Swan Sonnenschein & Co. The firm published general literature and periodicals but specialised in sociology and politics. Sonnenschein was involved with the Ethical Society and published their literature.

In 1895 Swan Sonnenschein became a limited liability company and in 1902 William Swan Sonnenschein left to work at George Routledge and Sons and later at Kegan Paul. Swan Sonnenschein was amalgamated with George Allen & Co in 1911.

In the light of the hostility to Germans during the First World War William Swan Sonnenschein changed his surname to Stallybrass for the remainder of his life as did some, but not all, of his family. He died in 1934.

Source: Archives of Swan Sonnenschein & Co. at the University of Reading.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE SERIES.

Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons

SCARLET CLOTH

  1. Six Centuries of Work and Wages. Prof. James Edwin Thorold Rogers. [Volume I, 1884; Volume II, 1884]
  2. Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure. Edward Carpenter. [1889].
  3. Quintessence of Socialism. Albert Eberhard Friedrich Schäffle. [3rd ed., translated from eighth German ed. By Bernard Bosanquet, 1891].
  4. Darwinism and Politics. David George Ritchie, M.A. (Oxon.). [Second edition, 1891].
  5. The Religion of Socialism. Ernest Belfort Bax. [1890].
  6. Ethics of Socialism. Ernest Belfort Bax. [1890].
  7. The Drink Question. Dr. Kate Mitchell. [Second edition, 1891].
  8. Promotion of General Happiness. Prof. Michael Macmillan. [1890].
  9. England’s Ideal, and Other Papers on Social Subjects. Edward Carpenter. [1887].
  10. Socialism in England. Sidney Webb, LL.B. [1890].
  11. Prince Bismarck and State Socialism. William Harbutt Dawson. [1890]
  12. Godwin’s “Political Justice”, A Reprint of the Essay on “Property”. Edited by Henry Stephens Salt. [1890].
  13. The Story of the French Revolution. Ernest Belfort Bax. [Second edition, 1892].
  14. The Co-Operative Commonwealth. Laurence Gronlund. [1886].
  15. Essays and Addresses. Bernard Bosanquet, M.A. (Oxon.). [1899].
  16. Charity Organisation. Charles Stewart Loch, Secretary to Charity Organisation Society. [1890].
  17. Thoreau’s Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Edited by Henry Stephens Salt. [1890].
  18. Self-Help a Hundred Years Ago. George Jacob Holyoake. [Third edition, 1891].
  19. The New York State Reformatory in Elmira. Alexander Winter. With Preface by Havelock Ellis. [1891].
  20. Common Sense about Women. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. [1891].
  21. The Unearned Increment. William Harbutt Dawson. [Second edition, 1890]
  22. Our Destiny. The Influence of Socialism on Morals and Religion. Laurence Gronlund, M.A. [1890].
  23. The Working-Class Movement in America. Dr. Edward and Eleanor Marx Aveling. [Second edition, enlarged, 1891].
  24. Luxury. Prof. Emile de Laveleye. [Second edition, 1891].
  25. The Land and the Labourers. Facts and Experiments in Cottage Farming and Co-operative Agriculture. Charles William Stubbs, M.A. [1891].
  26. The Evolution of Property from Savagery to Civilization. Paul Lafargue. [1894]
  27. Crime and its Causes. William Douglas Morrison. [1891].
  28. Principles of State Interference. David George Ritchie, M.A. [1891].
  29. German Socialism and Ferdinand Lassalle. William Harbutt Dawson. [Second edition, 1891]
  30. The Purse and the Conscience, An Attempt to Show the Connection between Economics and Ethics. Herbert Metford Thompson, B. A. (Cantab.). [1891].
  31. Origin of Property in Land. Fustel de Coulanges. Translated by Margaret Ashley with an Introductory Chapter on the English Manor, by Prof. W. J. Ashley, M.A. [1891].
  32. The English Republic. W. J. Linton. Edited by Kineton Parkes. [1891]
  33. The Co-Operative Movement in Great Britain. Beatrice Potter. [1891].
  34. Neighbourhood Guilds, an Instrument of Social Reform. Dr. Stanton Coit. [1892].
  35. Modern Humanists. Sociological Studies of Carlyle, Mill, Emerson, Arnold, Ruskin, and Spencer with an Epilogue on Social Reconstruction. John Mackinnon Robertson. [1891].
  36. Outlooks from the New Standpoint. Ernest Belfort Bax. [Third edition, 1903].
  37. Distributing Co-Operative Societies, an Essay on Social Economy. Dr. Luigi Pizzamiglio. Edited by F. J. Snell. [1891].
  38. Collectivism and the Socialism of the Liberal School, A Criticism and an Exposition. Alfred Naquet. Translated by William Heaford. [1891]
  39. The London Programme. Sidney Webb, LL.B. [1891].
  40. The Modern State in Relation to Society and the Individual. Paul Leroy Beaulieu. [1891].
  41. The Condition of Labour, an Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII. Henry George. [Second edition, 1892].
  42. The Revolutionary Spirit preceding the French Revolution. Felix Rocquain. With a Preface by Professor Huxley. [1894].
  43. The Students’ Marx. An Introduction to the Study of Karl Marx’ Capital. Edward Aveling, D.Sc. [1892].
  44. A Short History of Parliament. Britiffe Constable Skottowe, M.A. (Oxon.). [1892].
  45. Poverty: Its Genesis and Exodus. John George Godard. [Second edition, 1892]
  46. The Trade Policy of Imperial Federation from an economic Point of View. Maurice H. Hervey. [1892]
  47. The Dawn of Radicalism. John Bowles Daly, LL.D. [1892].
  48. The Destitute Alien in Great Britain. A Series of Papers Dealing with the Subject of Foreign Pauper Immigration. Papers arranged and edited by Arnold Henry White. [1892].
  49. Illegitimacy and the Influence of Seasons upon Conduct. Albert Leffingwell, M.D. [1892].
  50. Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century. Henry Mayers Hyndman. [1892].
  51. The State and Pensions in Old Age. John Alfred Spender with an introduction by Arthur H. D. Acland, M.P. [1892].
  52. The Fallacy of Saving. John Mackinnon Robertson. [1892].
  53. The Irish Peasant, a Sociological Study. By a Guardian of the Poor. [1892].
  54. The Effects of Machinery on Wages. Prof. Joseph Shield Nicholson, D.Sc. [1892].
  55. The Social Horizon. [George Francis Millin]. [Second edition, 1893].
  56. Socialism, Utopian and Scientific. Frederick Engels. Translated by Edward Aveling. [1892].
  57. Land Nationalisation, its Necessity and its Aims. Alfred Russel Wallace. [1892]
  58. The Ethic of Usury and Interest, a Study of Inorganic Socialism. Rev. William Blissard, M.A. [1892].
  59. The Emancipation of Women and its Probable Consequences. Adele Crepaz. [1893].
  60. The Eight Hours’ Question. John Mackinnon Robertson. [Second edition, 1899].
  61. Drunkenness. George Robert Wilson, M.B. [Second edition, 1897].
  62. The New Reformation and its Relation to Moral and Social Problems. Ramsden Balmforth. [1893].
  63. The Agricultural Labourer, a Short Summary of his Position. Thomas Edward Kebbel. [New edition, 1887].
  64. Ferdinand Lassalle as a Social Reformer. Eduard Bernstein [translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling, 1893].
  65. A Short Account of England’s Foreign Trade in the Nineteenth Century, its Economic and Social Results. A. L. Bowley, M.A. [Revised edition, 1905]
  66. Theory and Policy of Labour Protection. Albert Eberhard Friedrich Schäffle. [1893]
  67. The History of Rochdale Pioneers. George Jacob Holyoake. [Third edition, 1900].
  68. The Rights of Women; A Comparative Study in History and Legislation. Moisei Ostrogorski. [1893].
  69. The Dwellings of the Poor and Weekly Wage-Earners In and Around Towns. Thomas Locke Worthington. [1893].
  70. Hours and Wages in Relation to Production. Luju Brentano. [Translated by Mrs. William Arnold, 1894].
  71. The Rise of Modern Democracy in Old and New England. Charles Borgeaud. [Translated by Mrs. Birkbeck Hill, 1894].
  72. Land Systems of Australasia. William Epps. [1894].
  73. The Tyranny of Socialism. Yves Guyot. Pref. by J. H. Levy. [1894].
  74. Population and the Social System. Dr. Francesco Saverio Nitti. [1894].
  75. The Labour Question; An Epitome of the Evidence and the Report of the Royal Commission on Labour. Thomas George Spyers, B.A. [1894].
  76. British Freewomen, Their Historical Privilege. Charlotte Carmichael Stopes. [1894].
  77. Suicide and Insanity. Dr. Samuel Alexander Kenny Strahan. [1893].
  78. A History of Tithes. Rev. Henry William Clarke, B.A. [Second edition, 1894]
  79. Three Months in a Workshop; A Practical Study. Paul Göhre, with Pref. by Prof. Ely. [Translated by A. B. Carr, 1895].
  80. Darwinism and Race Progress. Prof. John Berry Haycraft. [Second edition, 1900].
  81. Local Taxation and Finance. G. H. Blunden. [1895].
  82. Perils to British Trade: How to Avert Them. Edwin Burgis. [1895].
  83. The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Edited by H.J. Tozer. [1895].
  84. Co-operative Labour upon the Land: The Report of a Conference on ‘Land, Co-operation, and the Unemployed’ held at Holborn Town Hall in October 1894. John Atkinson Hobson, M.A., ed. [1895].
  85. Moral Pathology. Arthur Edward Giles, M.D., B.Sc. [1895].
  86. Parasitism, Organic and Social. Jean Massart and Émile Vandervelde. [Translated by William Macdonald. Revised by J. Arthur Thomson, 1895].
  87. Allotments and Small Holdings. J. L. Green. [1896].
  88. Money and its Relations to Prices, Being an Inquiry into the Causes, Measurement, and Effects of Changes in General Prices. Langford Lovell Rice. [1896].
  89. Sober by Act of Parliament. Fred Arthur McKenzie. [1896].
  90. Workers on their Industries. Edited, with an Introduction, by Frank Wallis Galton. [1896].
  91. Revolution and Counter-Revolution; or, Germany in 1848. Karl Marx. [1896].
  92. Overproduction and Crises. Karl Rodbertus. [Translated by Julia Franklin. With an introduction by John Bates Clarke, Second Edition, 1908].
  93. Local Government and State Aid; An Essay on the Effect on Local Administration and Finance of the Payment to Local Authorities of the Proceeds of Certain Imperial Taxes. Sydney John Chapman, M.A. (Lond.), B.A. (Cantab.). [1899].
  94. The Origin and Growth of Village Communities in India. Baden Henry Baden-Powell. [1899].
  95. A History of the Trade Between the United Kingdom and the United States: With Special Reference to the Effects of Tariffs. Sidney John Chapman. [1899].
  96. A Plain Examination of Socialism. Gustave Simonson, M.A, M.D. [1900].
  97. Commercial Federation and Colonial Trade Policy. John Davidson, M.A., Phil. D. (Edin.). [1900].
  98. Selections from the Works of Fourier. Charles Fourier. With an introduction by Charles Gide. [Translated by Julia Franklin, 1901].
  99. Public-House Reform: An Explanation with an Appendix. Alexander Neilson Cumming, M.A. [1901].
  100. The Village Problem. George F. Millin. [1903].
  101. Toward the Light: Elementary Studies in Ethics and Economics. Lewis H. Berens. [1903].
  102. Christian Socialism in England. Arthur V. Woodworth. [1903].
  103. The Philosophers and the French Revolution. Pestonji Ardesir Wadia. [1904].
  104. The History of the English Corn Laws. Prof. Joseph Shield Nicholson, M.A. [1904].
  105. The Biology of British Politics. Charles H. Harvey. [1904].
  106. Rates and Taxes as Affecting Agriculture. Prof. Joseph Shield Nicholson, M.A. [1905].
  107. A Practical Programme for Working Men. Edmond Kelly. [1906].
  108. John Thelwall: A Pioneer of Democracy and Social Reform in England During the French Revolution. Charles Cestre, Litt.D.(Paris). [1906].
  109. The Relations of Rents, Wages and Profits in Agriculture, and their Bearing on Rural Depopulation. Joseph Shield Nicholson, M.A., D.Sc. [1906].
  110. Economic Prejudices. Yves Guyot. [Translated by Fred Rothwell, 1910].
  111. Contemporary Social Problems: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the University of Padua. Achille Loria. [Translated from the Italian with the Permission of the Author by John Leslie Garner, 1911].
  112. Who Pays? An Inquiry into the Real Incidence of Taxation. Robert Henry. [1912].

 

DOUBLE VOLUMES.

  1. The Life, Times, and Labours of Robert Owen. Lloyd Jones. [Third edition, 1900]
  2. The Impossibility of Social Democracy; being a Supplement to “The Quintessence of Socialism.” Albert Eberhard Friedrich Schäffle. [with a Preface by Bernard Bosanquet, 1892]
  3. The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844. Fredk. Engels.
  4. Principles of Social Economy. Yves Guyot. [Second edition, 1892].
  5. Social Peace. A Study of the Trade Union Movement in England. Dr. Gerhart von Schulze-Gaevernitz. [Translated by C. M. Wicksteed, B.A. and edited by Graham-Wallas, M.A., 1893].
  6. A Handbook of Socialism. William Dwight Porter Bliss. [1895].
  7. Socialism: Its Growth and Outcome. William Morris and Ernest Belfort Bax. [1893].
  8. Economic Foundations of Society. Achille Loria. [Translated from the second French edition by Lindley M. Keasbey, 1899].

 

Source: Website Publishing History > Social Science Series (Swan Sonnenschein & Co.) Book Series List. Author of the list: David Paul Wagner.

 

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