Louis Coues Page (1869 – 1956) was a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts. Born in Zurich to American parents, he attended Harvard College and worked for Boston publishers Estes & Lauriat, 1891–1892. [1] In 1896 he bought the Joseph Knight Company and renamed it L.C. Page & Company; [2] [3] [4] around 1914 it became The Page Company. [5] It issued works of "art, travel, music, belles lettres" and fiction for adults and children. [6] It operated from offices on Beacon Street in Beacon Hill. [7] Authors published by the firm included Bliss Carman, Julia Caroline Dorr, Lucy Maud Montgomery, [8] and Eleanor H. Porter. In 1914 the Page Company acquired Dana Estes & Co. [9]
Around the 1910s Louis and his brother George A. Page were co-owners of the Boston Braves baseball team. [10]
Page married Kate Stearns in 1895. [11]
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy acquired L.C. Page & Co. in 1957; the imprint continued until 1980. [12]
L.C. Page & Company, Summer Street, Boston
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Page Company, 53 Beacon Street, Boston
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