Jonathan Cape fiction by James Joyce and T. E. Lawrence. After Cape's death, the firm later merged successively with three other London publishing houses. In 1987 it was taken over by Random House. Its name continues as one of Random House's British imprints. Herbert Jonathan Cape was born in London on 15 November 1879, the youngest of the seven children of Jonathan Cape, a clerk from Ireby in what is now Cumbria, and his wife Caroline, "née" Page. He received a basic schooling and in his early teens he was taken on by Hatchards bookshop in Piccadilly as an errand-boy. Four years
Banknotes of the Swakopmund Bookshop Banknotes of the Swakopmund Bookshop Banknotes were issued by the Swakopmund Bookshop (German; "Swakopmunder Buchhandlung") between 1916 and 1918 as an emergency currency. They issued 10, 25, 50 Pfennig, and 1, 2, and 3 mark notes. Although these were issued under South African administration, these notes are denominated in Pfennig and Mark, which was the South West African mark as opposed to the German South-West African Mark. Despite this, these are genuine British Empire and Commonwealth issues. These notes are known as 'Gutschein'. These notes are wrongly listed in the "Standard Catalog of World Paper Money" (which is published by