Small, Maynard & Company

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Small, Maynard & Company (Small, Maynard and Company in bibliographies), was a publishing house located in Boston. It is now defunct. In its day it was a highly reputable house in literature, and several American authors were published by it, including, for example, Walt Whitman.

The house is also known for publishing the first English language American edition of the notorious plagiarism, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The work carries no editor, translator or name of a compiler; however, it includes an alleged facsimile of a title page, in the Russian language, with a translation on the other side. The translation indicates that the author was Serge Nilus and the place (apparently of publication) is given as "THE TOWN OF SERGIEV." This town appears to be Sergiev Posad.

The book opens, after the facsimile title page, with "Part One, Introductory Statement," and on page 5 of this introduction is the following accounting as to the original source for the translation:

Now, for the first time, the document entitled by Mr. Nilus "Protocols of the Meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom" is published in the United States, correctly translated from the Russian text as it appears in Mr. Nilus's book, "It is Near, At the Door," 1917, published in the printing office of the Sviato-Troitzky Monastery.

Cesare G. De Michelis not only indicates that this imprint is the first American English language editions of "The Protocols," but gives the name of the editor as Boris Brasol, an antisemite whom Robert Singerman called "public enemy" of the Jews.

The company motto, which it published decoratively, and in Latin, on title pages of its books was Scire quod sciendum, and translates as Knowledge worth knowing.