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Merlin Press

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Founded in 1956 by Martin Eve amid the break-up of the British communist movement after the Soviet invasion of Hungary, to publish for the emerging New Left. It is the long-standing publisher of the Socialist Register and remains active.

Years
1956–present
Location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Website
https://www.merlinpress.co.uk/
Sources
University of Reading — Merlin Press Archive

Backlist

26019501960197019801990200020102020Founded 19561956: 3 titles1957: 4 titles1958: 3 titles1959: 8 titles1960: 7 titles1961: 9 titles1962: 13 titles1963: 20 titles1964: 26 titles1965: 12 titles1966: 17 titles1967: 12 titles1968: 14 titles1969: 20 titles1970: 12 titles1971: 15 titles1972: 16 titles1973: 7 titles1974: 12 titles1975: 11 titles1976: 8 titles1977: 11 titles1978: 16 titles1979: 10 titles1980: 12 titles1981: 12 titles1982: 15 titles1983: 14 titles1984: 10 titles1985: 13 titles1986: 6 titles1987: 15 titles1988: 11 titles1989: 15 titles1990: 18 titles1991: 11 titles1992: 9 titles1993: 6 titles1994: 4 titles1995: 7 titles1996: 4 titles1997: 4 titles1998: 5 titles1999: 5 titles2000: 1 title2001: 7 titles2002: 7 titles2003: 9 titles2004: 11 titles2005: 13 titles2006: 7 titles2007: 17 titles2008: 8 titles2009: 8 titles2010: 5 titles2011: 10 titles2012: 12 titles2013: 10 titles2014: 5 titles2015: 9 titles2016: 6 titles2017: 4 titles2018: 2 titles2019: 9 titles2020: 5 titles2021: 6 titles2022: 2 titles2023: 3 titles2024: 4 titles2025: 3 titles2026: 2 titles
Titles of Merlin Press by year: 667 dated titles, 1956–2026, most in 1964 (26); 16 undated. Lines mark founded 1956.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1950s18
1960s150
1970s118
1980s123
1990s73
2000s88
2010s72
2020s25
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1956Folksong, Plainsong✓ — A Study in Origins and Musical RelationshipsGeorge Bennet ChambersEnglish
1956The "Science in Action"✓ — TV LibraryBenjamin DraperEnglish
1956The Overcoat✓Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich GogolʹEnglish
1957Great American Automobiles✓ — A Dramatic Account of Their Achievements in CompetitionJohn BentleyEnglish
1957Love✓StendhalEnglish
1957The French Prisoner✓Louis GarnerayEnglish
1957The French Prisoner. Translated from the French by Lawrence Wood✓Louis GarnerayEnglish
1958Medieval Thought✓ — St. Augustine to OckhamGordon LeffEnglish
1958The Discovery of Britain✓FreeJack LindsayEnglish
1958The Life of Henry Brulard✓StendhalEnglish
1959A Disgraceful Affair✓ — Translated by Nora GottliebFiódor DostoievskiEnglish
1959A Portrait from Letters✓Jane Ellen HarrisonEnglish
1959English Field Systems✓FreeHoward L. GrayEnglish
1959From History to Sociology✓ — The Transition in German Historical Thinking; with a Foreword by Benedetto CroceCarlo AntoniEnglish
1959Jane Ellen Harrison✓ — A Portrait from LettersJane Ellen HarrisonEnglish
1959Maxims of Love✓StendhalEnglish
1959Medieval Thought✓ — St. Augustine to OckhamGordon LeffEnglish
1959Stendhal✓ — Notes on a NovelistRobert M. AdamsEnglish
1960Anthropology and Human Nature✓Ashley MontaguEnglish
1960Armance; or, Scenes from a Parisian Salon in 1827✓FreeStendhalEnglish
1960Catholic Action and Politics✓Tom TrumanEnglish
1960Féder✓ — Or, the Moneyed HusbandStendhalEnglish
1960The English Yeoman✓ — Under Elizabeth and the Early StuartsMildred CampbellEnglish
1960Three Visits to Russia (1922-25)✓A. Ruth FryEnglish
1960Top Sacred✓Hugh BurnettEnglish
1961How to Take Better Pictures of Your Family✓George B. WrightEnglish
1961Jean-Paul Sertre — Philosopher Without FaithRené Marill-Alberes & Wade BaskinEnglish
1961Nuclear Weapons and Christian Conscience✓G. E. M. AnscombeEnglish
1961Nuclear Weapons and Christian Conscience. G. E. M. Anscombe, R. a. Markus, P. T. Geach, Roger Smith, Walter Stein. Foreword by Mgr T. D. Roberts✓—English
1961Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion✓FreeJane Ellen HarrisonEnglish
1961Sacred and Confidential✓Hugh BurnettEnglish
1961Sacred and Confidential Hugh Burnett✓Hugh BurnettEnglish
1961The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth✓Free — As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard WinstanleyLewis H. BerensEnglish
1961The Tyranny of Concepts✓ — A Critique of MarxismGordon LeffEnglish
1962Broad and Alien Is the World✓Ciro AlegríaEnglish
1962From History to Sociology✓ — Dallo Storicisimo Alla Sociologia: The Transition in German Historical ThinkingCarlo AntoniEnglish
1962From Yalta to Disarmament✓ — Cold War DebateJoseph P. MorrayEnglish
1962Law-Finders and Law-Makers in Medieval England✓ — Collected Studies in Legal and Constitutional HistoryHelen Maud CamEnglish
1962Nothing Sacred✓Hugh BurnettEnglish
1962Still the Lark✓ — A Biography of Elizabeth LinleyMargot Bor & Lamond ClellandEnglish
1962Sword Dance and Drama✓Viol fordEnglish
1962The Dutch Windmill✓F. StokhuyzenEnglish
1962The Dutch Windmill. Translated from the Dutch by Carry Dikshoorn. Illus✓ — J. C. LunenburgF. StokhuyzenEnglish
1962The historical novel✓Georg Lukács, Hannah Mitchell & Stanley MitchellGerman
1962The Historical Novel✓ — Translated from the German by Hannah and Stanley MitchellLukács GyörgyEnglish
1962The Meaning of Contemporary Realism✓György LukácsEnglish
1962Totemism✓Claude Lévi-StraussEnglish
1963A Short History of Literary Criticism✓Vernon HallEnglish
1963Dutch Tiles✓Dingeman KorfEnglish
1963Glass and Crystal✓ — English TranslationElka SchrijverEnglish
1963Lace✓L. W. van der Meulen-NulleEnglish
1963Liberties & Communities in Medieval England✓ — Collected Studies in Local Administration and TopographyHelen Maud CamEnglish
1963Liberties and Communities in Medieval England✓ — Collected Essays in Local Administration and TopographyHelen M. CamEnglish
1963Politics and Law in South Africa✓ — Essays on Race RelationsJulius LewinEnglish
1963Puerto Rico✓ — Freedom and Power in the CaribbeanGordon K. LewisEnglish
1963Studies in Manorial History✓FreeAda Elizabeth LevettEnglish
1963Sutton Hoo✓ — The Excavation of a Royal Ship-BurialCharles GreenEnglish
1963The Art of Bertolt Brecht✓Walter WeideliEnglish
1963The Crimson Dawn, by Catherine E. Williamson✓Catherine Ellis WilliamsonEnglish
1963The Disappearance of the Small Landowner✓
Ford Lectures; 1909
A. H. JohnsonEnglish
1963The Hundred and the Hundred Rolls✓ — An Outline of Local Government in Medieval EnglandHelen Maud CamEnglish
1963The Hundred Und Hundred Rolls✓ — An Outline of Local Governement in Medival EnglandHelen Maud CamEnglish
1963The Meaning of Contemporary Realism✓Lukács GyörgyEnglish
1963Themis✓ — A Study of the Social Origin of Greek ReligionJane Ellen Harrison, Gilbert Murray & Francis Macdonald CornfordEnglish
1963Themis, a Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion✓Jane Ellen HarrisonEnglish
1963Themis, a Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion. With an Excursus on the Ritual Forms Preserved in Greek Tragedy by Gilbert Murray and a Chapter on the Origin of the Olympic Games by F. M. Cornford✓Jane Ellen HarrisonEnglish
1963What Is Phenomenology? And Other EssaysPierre ThévenazEnglish
1964A Short History of Literary Criticism✓Vernon HallEnglish
1964An Essay on the Origins of the House of Commons✓D. PasquetEnglish
1964Arts and Festivals, Recreation and Leisure, the Social and Welfare Services, General Themes✓
Essays in Local Government Enterprise; 1
Ellis HillmanEnglish
1964Essays in Local Government Enterprise✓Ellis HillmanEnglish
1964Essays on Thomas Mann✓Lukács GyörgyEnglish
1964Glass and Crystal✓E. SchrijverEnglish
1964Jean-Paul Sartre✓ — Philosopher Without FaithRené MarillEnglish
1964Jean-Paul Sartre: Philosopher Without Faith, by René Marill-Albérès Pseud✓R. M. AlbérèsEnglish
1964Jewelry✓L. Giltay-NijssenEnglish
1964Nasserism and Socialism✓Anouar Abdel-MalekEnglish
1964Orchids, Care and Growth✓Michel A. M. PaulEnglish
1964Oswald✓ — Assasin or Fall GuyJoachim JoestenEnglish
1964Oswald, Assassin of Fall Guy?✓Joachim JoestenEnglish
1964Parliamentary Socialism✓ — A Study in the Politics of LabourRalph MilibandEnglish
1964Pottery✓Jos H. EppensEnglish
1964Puerto Rico✓ — Freedom and Power in TheCaribbeanGordon K. LewisEnglish
1964Ski with Nitka✓NitkaEnglish
1964Stephen Langton — Being the Ford Lectures Delivered in the University O Oxford in Hilary Term 1927
The Ford Lectures -- 1927
Frederick Maurice PowickeEnglish
1964The Art of Berthold Brecht✓Walter WeideliEnglish
1964The Art of Bertolt Brecht✓Walter WeideliEnglish
1964The Haunted Fifties✓I. F. StoneEnglish
1964The Overcoat✓Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich GogolʹEnglish
1964The Socialist Register✓ — A Survey of Movements and Ideas—English
1964The Universal Peace Organization of King George of Bohemia✓ — A Fifteenth Century Plan for World Peace, 1462-1464Jiří, z Poděbrad, King of BohemiaEnglish
1964Totemism✓Claude Lévi-StraussEnglish
1964Totemism. Translated by Rodney Needham✓Claude Lévi-StraussEnglish
1965Aquarium Techniques✓Adolf Otto JanzeEnglish
1965Essays in Local Government Enterprise✓ — Vol. 2: New Towns, New CitiesEllis MillmanEnglish
1965Lands Alive✓ — (Terres Vivantes)René DumontEnglish
1965New Towns, New Cities✓
Essays in Local Government Enterprise; 2
Ellis HillmanEnglish
1965Nuclear Weapons and Christian Conscience✓Walter Stein & G. E. M. AnscombeEnglish
1965Rock Garden Plants of the Southern Alps✓William Raymond PhilipsonEnglish
1965Stephen Langton✓ — Being the Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1927
Oxford. University. Ford Lectures -- 1927
F. M. PowickeEnglish
1965Tapestries✓
Collectors' Series
Wybren Sipke SevensmaEnglish
1965The Historical Novel✓Lukács GyörgyEnglish
1965The Hsitorical Novel✓Georg LukácsEnglish
1965The Socialist Register✓ — 1965Ralph Miliband & John SavilleEnglish
1965Vietnam✓ — The TruthWilliam WarbeyEnglish
1966Albert Camus✓Robert de LuppéEnglish
1966Chronicle of the Worker-Priests✓Stan WindassEnglish
1966Education
Essays in Local Government Enterprise
Ellis HillmanEnglish
1966Essays in Local Government Enterprise✓ — First SeriesEllis HillmanEnglish
1966Militant Trade Unionism✓ — A Re-analysis of Industrial Action in an Inflationary Situation
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society
Victor L. AllenEnglish
1966Militant Trade Unionism. A Re-analysis of Insustrial Action in an Inflationary Situation✓Victor Leonard AllenEnglish
1966Social Reform or Revolution, 1900✓Rosa LuxemburgEnglish
1966Stephen Langton — Being the Ford lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1927
University of Oxford
Frederick Maurice PowickeNot recorded
1966T.S.Eliot✓Georges CattauiEnglish
1966The Friend of the People✓
The Red Republican & the Friend of the People: In Two Volumes / Introd. By John Saville; Vol. 2
John SavilleEnglish
1966The Red Republican✓
The Red Republican & the Friend of the People: In Two Volumes / Introd. By John Saville; Vol. 1
John SavilleEnglish
1966The Red Republican [1850] and the Friend of the People December, 1850-July, 1851✓George Julian Harney & John SavilleEnglish
1966The Red Republican & the Friend of the People✓ — In Two Volumes; a Reprint of the Chartist Journal; 1850 - 1851Friend of the peopleEnglish
1966The Red Republican & the Friend of the People in Two Volumes✓John Saville & George Julian HarneyEnglish
1966The Socialist Register✓ — 1966Ralph Miliband & John SavilleEnglish
1966The Socialist Register, 1966✓Ralph Miliband & John SavilleEnglish
1966Though the Streets Burn✓Catherine Ellis Williamson & Hewlett JohnsonEnglish
1967Conrad Noel and the Thaxted Movement✓ — An Adventure in Christian SocialismReginald GrovesEnglish
1967Essays in Local Government Enterprise✓—English
1967Ethiopian Painting in the Late Middle Ages and Under the Gondar Dynasty✓ — Translation [from the Italian] by Claire PaceJules LeroyEnglish
1967Fellini✓Angelo SolmiEnglish
1967Marcel Proust✓Georges Cattaui & Pierre de BoisdeffreEnglish
1967Notes to the People✓ — May 1851 - May 1852Ernest JonesEnglish
1967The English Yeoman Under Elizabeth and the Early Stuarts✓
Yale Historical Publications. Studies; Vol. 14
Mildred CampbellEnglish
1967The Junius Pamphlet✓Free — The Crisis in the German Social Democracy, February-April 1915Rosa LuxemburgEnglish
1967The Overseas Trade of Bristol in the Later Middle Ages✓Eleanora M. Carus-WilsonEnglish, French, Latin
1967The Overseas Trade of Bristol Inthe Later Middle Ages✓E. M. Carus-WilsonEnglish
1967The Socialist Register✓—English
1967The Socialist Register 1967✓Ralph Miliband & John SavilleEnglish
1968Book of the Monk✓Hugh BurnettNot recorded
1968Goethe and His Age✓Georg LukácsEnglish
1968International Bibliography of Trade Unionism✓V. L. AllenEnglish
1968International Bibliography of Trade Unionism, by v. L. Allen✓V. L. AllenEnglish
1968Marxist Economic Theory✓Ernest MandelEnglish
1968Sutton Hoo✓ — The Excavation of a Royal Ship-BurialCharles GreenEnglish
1968The Democratic Review✓ — June 1849 - September 1850G. Julian HarneyEnglish
1968The Democratic Review [of British and Foreign Politics, History & Literature, v. 1-2] June 1849-Sept. 1850✓—English
1968The Democratic Review of British and Foreign Politics, History, & Literature✓ — June 1849-September 1850George Julian HarneyEnglish
1968The Socialist Register✓Ralph Miliband & John SavilleEnglish
1968The Socialist Register, 1968✓Ralph Miliband & John SavilleEnglish
1968Truth Shall Prevail✓Marian SlingováEnglish
1968Truth Will Prevail✓Marian SlingovaEnglish
1968What Is Economics?✓Rosa LuxemburgEnglish
1969English Antique Furniture✓ — 1450-1850Margery DeanEnglish
1969English Field Systems✓Howard Levi GrayEnglish
1969Henry James✓Georges Markow-TotevyEnglish
1969Henry James, Translated (from the French) by John Griffiths, with a Preface by Andre Maurois✓Georges Markow-TotevyEnglish
1969History and Social Theory✓Gordon LeffEnglish
1969History of the Chartist Movement✓ — 1837 - 1854R. G. GammageEnglish
1969Marx and Keynes✓Free — The Limits of the Mixed EconomyPaul MattickEnglish
1969Militant Trade Unionism✓ — A Re-analysis of Industrial Action in an Inflationary SituationVictor L. AllenEnglish
1969Report on the International Politico-Legal Aspects of the Vietnam Conflict✓William Noble WarbeyEnglish
1969Student Power✓Julian NagelEnglish
1969The Haunted Fifties✓I. F. StoneEnglish
1969The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions, 1906✓Rosa LuxemburgEnglish
1969The Meaning of Contemporary RealismLukács GyörgyNot recorded
1969The Poor Man's Guardian✓ — 1831-1835Patricia Hollis & Henry HetheringtonEnglish
1969The Socialist Register✓Miliband, R. Saville, J.English
1969The Socialist Register... Edited by Ralph Miliband and John Saville✓—English
1969The Tyranny of Concepts✓ — A Critique of MarxismGordon LeffEnglish
1969Trade Union Register✓Ken Coates, Tony Topham & Michael Barratt BrownEnglish
1969Trade Union Register (1969)✓—English
1969Trade Union Register. Edited by Ken Coates, Tony Topham [and] Michael Barratt Brown✓Ken CoatesEnglish
1970After Imperialism✓Michael Barratt BrownEnglish
1970Marx's Theory of Alienation✓FreeIstván MészárosEnglish
1970Modern Chess Tactics — Pieces and Pawns in ActionLuděk PachmanEnglish
1970Social Reform or Revolution✓Rosa LuxemburgEnglish
1970Solzhenitsyn✓Lukács GyörgyEnglish
1970Solzhenitsyn✓Georg Lukács & William David GrafGerman
1970The Socialist Register✓
The Socialist Register..; 1970
Ralph Miliband & John SavilleEnglish
1970The Socialist Register... Edited by Ralph Miliband and John Saville✓—English
1970Trade Union Register✓Ken CoatesEnglish
1970Trade Union Register (1970)✓Michael Barratt BrownEnglish
1970Writer & Critic, and Other Essays✓Lukács GyörgyEnglish
1970Writer and Critic and Other Essays✓Lukács GyörgyEnglish
1971History and Class Consciousness✓Free — Studies in Marxist DialecticsLukács GyörgyEnglish
1971James Joyce✓Joseph MajaultEnglish
1971Marx and Keynes✓Free — The Limits of the Mixed EconomyPaul MattickEnglish
1971Marx and Keynes, the Limits of Mixed Economy by Paul Mattick✓Paul MattickEnglish
1971Marxist Economic Theory✓ — Translated [from the French] by Brian Pearce
Book Club Edition
Ernest MandelEnglish
1971Rosa Luxemburg on the Spartacus Programme✓ — Speech Delivered on December 30, 1918 at the Founding Conference of the Communist Party of Germany Held in BerlinRosa LuxemburgEnglish
1971The English Defence of the Commune 1871. Edited and Introduced by Royden Harrison✓—English
1971The English Defence of the Commune, 1871✓Royden HarrisonEnglish
1971The Necessity of Social Control✓Free
Isaac Deutscher Memorial Lecture
István MészárosEnglish
1971The Socialist Register✓
The Socialist Register..; 1971
Ralph Miliband & John SavilleEnglish
1971The Socialist Register. 1971—English
1971The Socialist Register... Edited by Ralph Miliband and John Saville✓—English
1971The Theory of the Novel✓Free — A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic LiteratureLukács GyörgyEnglish
1971The Unknow Mayhew✓ — Selections from the Morning Chronicle 1849-1850Henry Mayhew, E. P. Thompson & Eileen Janes YeoEnglish
1971The Unknown Mayhew✓ — Selections from the Morning Chronicle, 1849-1850Henry MayhewEnglish
1972Critique of Marcuse: One-Dimensional Man in Class Society✓Paul MattickEnglish
1972Folksong, Plainsong✓ — A Study in Origins and Musical RelationshipsG. B. ChambersEnglish
1972Ho Chi Minh and the Struggle for an Independent Vietnam✓William WarbeyEnglish
1972Ho Chi Minh and the Struggle for an Independent Vietnam, by William Warbey✓William WarbeyEnglish
1972Imperialism and World Economy✓Free — With an Introd. By V.I. LeninNikolaĭ Ivanovich BukharinEnglish