Chapman & Hall
Chapman & Hall Ltd. was an English book and magazine publisher based in London .
Founded in 1830, Chapman & Hall Ltd. Independent until the end of the 1980s, until it was initially absorbed as an imprint in the Canadian Thomson Corporation and was sold to the American CRC Press in 1998 . Since then, CRC Press has published scientific publications under the name Chapman & Hall .
One of the most famous authors of the publishing house was the writer Charles Dickens , whose works Chapman & Hall published with interruption from 1836 until Dickens' death in 1870.
history
Chapman & Hall was founded in 1830 by entrepreneurs Edward Chapman (1804–1880) and William Hall (probably 1801–1847), initially as a bookstore with an attached print shop . The bookstore was initially on London Strand No. 186, from 1851 then in Piccadilly No. 193. In 1836 the publisher signed the then unknown Charles Dickens and published his first work Die Pickwickier ; Like most of Dickens' later works, the story was initially published as a serialized novel , and then as a complete edition in the following year.
After William Hall's death in 1847, Edward Chapman's cousin Frederic Chapman became a new partner in the publishing house and eventually ran it alone from 1864 after Edward Chapman had retired. Four years later, the author Anthony Trollope , whose books Chapman & Hall was self- publishing at the time, acquired a third of the company's shares for his son Henry Merivale.
From 1902 to 1930 Arthur Waugh - father of the writer Evelyn Waugh , who himself was under contract with Chapman & Hall during this time - was managing director of the publishing house. In the 1930s, Chapman & Hall merged with the London-based Methuen publishing house , with which it became part of the Associated Book Publishers in 1955 . The latter was bought in 1987 by the Canadian Thomson Corporation , which Chapman & Hall incorporated as an imprint into its Thomson Scientific and Professional division .
In 1998, the Dutch information service provider Wolters Kluwer took over Thomson's science division and in the same year sold it to the American CRC Press . Since then, CRC Press has been publishing scientific publications under the name Chapman & Hall , primarily in the fields of mathematics and statistics .
Well-known authors
From 1836 to '44 and again from 1858 to '70 Chapman & Hall published Charles Dickens' works. During these collaborations, his debut novel Die Pickwickier (1837), a Christmas story (1843), a story from two cities (1859) and great expectations (1861) appeared in the publishing house.
In addition, led Chapman & Hall with William Thackeray , Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Anthony Trollope some other well-known authors mainly of Victorian England in his program.
Web links
literature
- Hall, Arthur : The British Metropolis in 1851: A Classified Guide to London . Virtue & Co., London, 1851. ( Available online on Google Books )
- Schlicke, Paul : The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens . Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011. ( Available online on Google Books )
- Waugh, Arthur : A hundred years of publishing: Being a story of Chapman & Hall, ltd . Chapman & Hall, London, 1930.