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Thomas Fisher Unwin was born on 24 January 1848 in 33 Lowgate Hill, London. He was the son of the printer Jacob Unwin (1802–1855), who was the founder of the firm Unwin
Brothers and of the Gresham Press, and of his wife, Isobel, (née Hall). He attended the City of London School and then worked for
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In 1882, he founded his own publishing firm, T. Fisher Unwin. In 1885, he started a
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