Chapman & Hall is an imprint owned by CRC Press, originally founded as a

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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

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(from 1840 until 1844 and again from 1858 until 1870),

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, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anthony Trollope,

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and

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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

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in 1987. Chapman & Hall was sold again in 1998 as part of Thomson Scientific and Professional to

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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

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, part of the Informa group since 2004. Most notably, the company were publishers for

(from 1840 until 1844 and again from 1858 until 1870),

, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anthony Trollope,

and

. They continued to publish previously unpublished Dickens material well into the 20th century. Another popular author on the books in the 1880s was

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. The firm kept an office at 186

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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 RomancesXVIII Century French Romances
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