Passmore & Alabaster
Imprints
Published under its own name
This house publishes under its own name.
History
A brief history
Joseph Passmore (1823-95), born at Penryn in Cornwall, began printing in London in 1844; his partner James Alabaster (c.1826-92) was an Anglican, and the two kept up a close friendship and a business partnership for nearly forty years from premises in Paternoster Buildings, the London street of publishers.1 Passmore worshipped at New Park Street Chapel, and when the nineteen-year-old Spurgeon arrived the two became friends; it was Passmore and Alabaster who persuaded him in 1855 to publish a sermon every week.2 They never stopped. The weekly sermon ran for 3,241 consecutive weeks, and the firm gathered each year's into an annual volume: six as The New Park Street Pulpit, then, from 1861 when the congregation moved to its new building, fifty-seven more as The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit.3 Alabaster died in 1892, Passmore in 1895, and the house went on issuing volumes from Spurgeon's stock of unpublished sermons for a further quarter-century after his death. The series finally closed on 10 May 1917, stopped by the paper and metal shortages of the First World War, at 63 volumes and some 3,561 sermons.3 The firm also printed the rest of Spurgeon's enormous output.2 Its setting of the sermons has never been superseded so much as copied: Pilgrim Publications photographed the volumes in 1969-80, Reformation Heritage photographs Pilgrim today, and only A Pilgrim's Coffer, from 2024, has set the type afresh. All three are catalogued separately.
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The New Park Street Pulpit
The New Park Street Pulpit
The New Park Street Pulpit
The New Park Street Pulpit
The New Park Street Pulpit
The New Park Street Pulpit
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit
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