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Posted on 09 May 2011
Osprey Group will acquire Old House Books and Maps on 28 April 2011. This follows its success with heritage imprint Shire Publications, which joined the group in 2007, and will allow Osprey both to strengthen and diversify its position in this thriving niche sector.

Founded in 1991, Old House specialises in facsimiles of period maps and reprints of long-neglected books, with highlights including Dickens’s Dictionary of London 1888, London Poverty Maps 1889, and a Samuel Johnson compendium entitled Fopdoodle and Salmagundi. Osprey Group intends to expand further this already eclectic range and to market it alongside Shire. Though the imprint will continue to operate under the Old House name, its running will move to Osprey’s offices in Oxford and its distribution to Grantham Book Services. Old House will retain the idiosyncratic qualities that make it what it currently is, with the takeover allowing it to benefit from the opportunities for expansion afforded by Osprey Group’s editorial, design, sales and marketing capabilities.

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