Chapman & Hall is an
imprint owned by
CRC Press, originally founded as a
British
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publishing house
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in London in the first half of the 19th century by
Edward Chapman and
William Hall. Chapman & Hall were publishers for
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...
(from 1840 until 1844 and again from 1858 until 1870),
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature and philosophy.
Born in Ecclefechan, Dum ...
,
William Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray (; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel ''Vanity Fair'', a panoramic portrait of British society, and th ...
,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Anthony Trollope,
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge (; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first ...
and
Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires '' Decl ...
.
History
Upon Hall's death in 1847, Chapman's cousin
Frederic Chapman began his progress through the ranks of the company and eventually becoming a partner in 1858 and sole proprietor on Edward Chapman's retirement from Chapman & Hall in 1866. In 1868 author
Anthony Trollope bought a third of the company for his son, Henry Merivale Trollope. From 1902 to 1930 the company's managing director was
Arthur Waugh. In the 1930s the company merged with
Methuen, a merger which, in 1955, participated in forming the
Associated Book Publishers. The latter was acquired by
The Thomson Corporation
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in 1987.
Chapman & Hall was sold again in 1998 as part of Thomson Scientific and Professional to
Wolters Kluwer
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, who sold on its well-regarded mathematics and statistics list to
CRC Press. Today the name of Chapman & Hall/CRC is used as an
imprint for science and technology books by
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals. Its parts include Taylor & Francis, Routledge, F1000 Research or Dovepress. It is a division of Informa plc, a United Ki ...
, part of the
Informa group since 2004.
Most notably, the company were publishers for
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...
(from 1840 until 1844 and again from 1858 until 1870),
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature and philosophy.
Born in Ecclefechan, Dum ...
,
William Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray (; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel ''Vanity Fair'', a panoramic portrait of British society, and th ...
,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Anthony Trollope,
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge (; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first ...
and
Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires '' Decl ...
. They continued to publish previously unpublished Dickens material well into the 20th century. Another popular author on the books in the 1880s was
Henry Hawley Smart
Henry Hawley Smart (1833–1893) was an English army officer and novelist, who wrote as Capt. Hawley Smart. He was praised for his realistic racing and hunting scenes, and depictions of military incidents.
Family
Smart was born in Dover, Kent ...
.
The firm kept an office at 186
Strand
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, and later at 193
Piccadilly and 11 Henrietta Street in
Covent Garden.
Book series
* Chapman and Hall’s 2/- Net Library
* Fish and Fisheries Series
* The Foreign Library
* Library of Travel
* The Select Library of Fiction
* XVIII Century French Romances
XVIII Century French Romances
owu.edu. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
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References
External links
History of CRC Press
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