D. Appleton & Company
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| Status | Defunct |
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| Founded | 1831 |
| Founder | Daniel Appleton |
| Successor | Appleton-Century |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
D. Appleton & Company was an American company founded by Daniel Appleton (December 10, 1785 - March 27, 1849), who opened a general store which included books.
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- 1813 Relocated from Haverhill to Boston and imported books from England
- 1825 Relocated to New York City and entered the book business with brother-in-law Jonathan Leavitt
- 1831 Published first book: Crumbs from the Master's Table by William Mason (1719-1791)
- 1848 Daniel Appleton retired; son William Henry Appleton (1814-1899) formed a partnership with his brothers, John Adams Appleton (1817-1881), George Swett Appleton (1821-1878), Daniel Sidney Appleton (1824-1890), and Samuel Francis Appleton (1826-1883)
- 1849 Death of Daniel Appleton
- 1857 First New York trade publisher to engage in subscription publishing
- 1872 Popular Science magazine started
- 1875 Original publication of the memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman, one of the first such publications by a Civil War general
- 1880 Co-founded American Book Company
- 1881 Relocated from Leonard Street and Broadway, to Bond Street, New York City
- 1894 Published Songs of the Soil by Frank Lebby Stanton
- 1900 Filed for bankruptcy and sold Popular Science; re-organized by Joseph H. Sears of Harper's
- 1919 J. W. Hiltman named president
- 1924 Purchased Stewart Kidd Publisher Co, founded in 1914
- 1933 Merged with The Century Company., founded in 1881, to form the Appleton-Century Company
- 1945 Sold hymn books department to Revell Publishing
- 1948 Merged with F. S. Crofts Co., founded in 1924, to form Appleton-Century-Crofts.
- 1960 Purchased by Meredith Publishing Company
- 1973 Appleton division purchased by Prentice Hall
- 1974 New Century division sold to Charles Walther, and eventually became part of Academic Learning Company, LLC
- 1998 Prentice Hall merged with Pearson Education
- 2003 Academic Learning Company, LLC acquired New Win Publishing, which was a division of New Century Publishing
[edit] Publishing highlights
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, 1895
- Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris, 1880
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of Biography in 1 volume, 1856, edited by Francis L. Hawks, added American biographies to the volume edited by Elihu Rich and published in 1854 by Richard Griffin & Company (London).
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography in 6 volumes, 1887, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske
- Appleton's Railroad and Steamboat Guide, 1847
- New American Cyclopedia in 16 volumes, edited by George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana, 1857—1863; revised and enlarged as American Cyclopedia (1873—1876)
- Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia 1893, in 8 volumes edited by Charles Kendall Adams. The rights were acquired from Alvin J. Johnson & Co.
- Universal Cyclopaedia 1900, in 12 volumes derived from Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia. Edited by Charles Kendall Adams, and from 1902 by Rossiter Johnson, with title Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas
- The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1889—1891, New Century Dictionary 1927—c. 1963
- Picturesque America by William Cullen Bryant, 1872
- Unabridged English Dictionary 1859
- works of Jonathan Edwards, 1834 (1703—1758)
- science works of Charles Darwin (1809—1882)
- Diseases of the Heart and Arterial System, by Dr. Robert Hall Babcock (1903)
- Diseases of the Lungs by Dr. Robert Hall Babcock (1907)
- Memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman (1820—1891)
- The Works of Rudyard Kipling [Authorized Editions]15 Volumes (1899)
- literary works of Henry James (1843—1916)
- art works of Edith Wharton (1862—1937)
- architectural works of Stanford White (d. 1906)
- Gems of British Art, 1857
- work of T.H. Huxley, 1880
- From the Manger to the Throne 1880—1889 by REV. T. DeWitt Talmage, D.D.
- American Negro Slavery by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, 1918
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- Appleton-Century MSS
"Appleton, Daniel". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. This has information on the firm's evolution.
