The Century Company was an American publishing company, founded in 1881.
History
It was originally a subsidiary of
Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan R ...
, named Scribners and Company, but was bought by Roswell Smith and renamed by him after the
Century Association. The magazine that the company had published up to that time,
Scribners Monthly
''Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People'' was an illustrated American literary periodical published from 1870 until 1881. Following a change in ownership in 1881 of the company that had produced it, the magazine was relaunch ...
, was renamed
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
''The Century Magazine'' was an illustrated monthly magazine first published in the United States in 1881 by The Century Company of New York City, which had been bought in that year by Roswell Smith and renamed by him after the Century Associatio ...
.
The Century Company was also the publisher of
St. Nicholas Magazine from the time of its founding.
William Morgan Schuster became president of the Century Company of New York City in 1915 and held this position until 1933.
In 1933 the Century Company merged with publisher
D. Appleton & Company to form
Appleton-Century Company
D. Appleton & Company was an American publishing company founded by Daniel Appleton, who opened a general store which included books. He published his first book in 1831. The company's publications gradually extended over the entire field of li ...
, and later
Appleton-Century-Crofts
Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. was a division of the Meredith Publishing Company. It is a result of the merger of Appleton-Century Company with F.S. Crofts Co. in 1948. Prior to that The Century Company had merged with D. Appleton & Company in ...
.
Schuster became the president of Appleton-Century Crofts Inc. from 1933 until his retirement in 1952.
Imprints
* Century Vagabond Books
See also
* ''
Century Dictionary
''The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia'' is one of the largest encyclopedic dictionaries of the English language. In its day it was compared favorably with the ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' and frequently consulted for more factual informati ...
''
*
Century type family
*
Duell, Sloan and Pearce
*
Meredith Publishing Company The ''Meredith Publishing Company'', a division of Meredith Corporation
Meredith Corporation was an American media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa, that owned magazines, television stations, websites, and radio stations. Its publication ...
*
Theodore Low De Vinne
Theodore Low De Vinne (December 25, 1828 – February 16, 1914) was an American printer and scholarly author on typography. Considered "the leading commercial printer of his day," De Vinne did much for the improvement of American printing an ...
References
External links
History of the Century Company at New York Public Library
Publishing companies established in 1881
Defunct book publishing companies of the United States
1881 establishments in New York (state)
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