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Pickering & Chatto Publishers
Founded1820
FounderWilliam Pickering
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationLondon, United Kingdom
Publication typesAcademic monographs, critical editions, thematic source collections
Nonfiction topicsHumanities and social sciences
Official websitehttps://www.routledge.com/posts/5009

Pickering & Chatto is an imprint of Routledge which publishes in the humanities and social sciences, specializing in monographs, critical editions (works, diaries, correspondence) and thematic source collections.[1] Pickering & Chatto's academic monographs have an international reputation and its critical editions and source collections are critically acclaimed.[2][3][4][5] Pickering & Chatto is regarded as "the pre-eminent publisher of critical editions in the humanities and social sciences".[6][7]

History

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The origins of the company can be traced back to William Pickering (1796–1854), who set up as an antiquarian bookseller and publisher in 1820. After his death, the business was carried on by his son, Basil Montagu Pickering.[8] On his death, in 1878, it was purchased by Andrew Chatto (1841–1913), one of the founding partners of Chatto and Windus.[9][10] By the early twentieth century Pickering & Chatto was solely concerned with antiquarian book selling.[11][12]

Lord William Rees-Mogg bought Pickering & Chatto in 1981.[13][14] In 1983 he re-established Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited as an independent publishing house, serving as chairman and proprietor.[15][16] In 1993 the antiquarian bookselling business became an entirely separate enterprise and there is now no connection between the two companies.[17]

Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited was based in Bloomsbury[18] until March 2015, when it was acquired by the Taylor & Francis Group and became an imprint of Routledge.[19][20]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ "Rivals attack OUP and CUP". thebookseller.com. 2008-04-24. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  2. ^ "Las metáforas musicales del poser". docenotas.com. 21 February 2014. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  3. ^ "Pickering & Chatto Women's Studies Collection". academicrightspress.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
  4. ^ "Works of Daniel Defoe. Pickering & Chatto Edition". nlx.com. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  5. ^ "Cambridge University Press announces new partner for digital publishing platform". Cambridge University Press (cambridge.org). Retrieved 2015-05-01.
  6. ^ "Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle". alexanderstreet.com. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  7. ^ "The Romantic Era Redefined". The British Association for Romantic Studies (bars.ac.uk). Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  8. ^ "Pickering, William (1796–1854)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22213. Retrieved 2014-03-14. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  9. ^ "Chatto & Windus". The Open University. Retrieved 2013-05-09.
  10. ^ "Chatto & Windus". Randomhouse.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-11-14.
  11. ^ Weedon, Alexis (2004). "Chatto, Andrew (1840–1913)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47445. Retrieved 2014-05-09. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  12. ^ "William Rees-Mogg, Ex-Editor of The Times of London, Dies at 84". nytimes.com. 2013-01-04. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  13. ^ "Lord Rees-Mogg obituary". Guardian.co.uk. 2012-12-29. Retrieved 2013-05-09.
  14. ^ "Lord Rees-Mogg". telegraph.co.uk. 2012-12-30. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  15. ^ Baker, William; Lucas, Helen; Treharne, Elaine (30 December 2006). The English Association: One Hundred Years on. Leicester: English Association. p. 50. ISBN 9780900232251. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  16. ^ "William Rees-Mogg". telegraph.co.uk. 2010-12-29. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  17. ^ "Pickering & Chatto Antiquarian Booksellers". Retrieved 2013-05-09.
  18. ^ "Pickering & Chatto Publishers". Publishersglobal.com. Retrieved 2013-05-09.
  19. ^ "Bertoli Mitchell arranges the sale of Pickering and Chatto to Taylor & Francis". bertolimitchell.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
  20. ^ "Routledge Welcomes Pickering & Chatto". routledge.com. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
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