RA Collection: People and Organisations
Nonesuch Press was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell (1891-1975), his second wife Vera Mendel, and their mutual friend David Garnett (1892-1981), co-owner of Birrell & Garnett's bookshop in Soho's Gerrard Street, in the basement of which building the press began. Nonesuch Press's first book, a volume of John Donne's Love Poems was issued in May 1923. In total, the press produced more than 140 books.