Edward B. Marks.
Tin Pan Alley since 1894. Founded by Edward Bennett Marks at 47-55 West 28th Street in the heart of New York's music publishing district, the imprint helped define the American popular song. The catalogue extends through Latin, sacred, educational, and the early 20th-century American standards.
Marks set up shop on West 28th Street in 1894 — the block now known as Tin Pan Alley, where the music-publishing district concentrated through the early 20th century. The Marks catalogue helped define the American popular song: ballads, ragtime, blues, the early jazz idiom, and the sacred and educational repertoire that became the working library of American music.
Below: the Edward B. Marks departmental catalogue. Genre-first for the major Tin Pan Alley categories, then format. The Latin and sacred sub-catalogues — early Marks specialties — are catalogued separately.