Thomas Y. Crowell Co. was a

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company founded by Thomas Y. Crowell. The company began as a bookbindery founded by Benjamin Bradley in 1834. Crowell operated the business after Bradley's death in 1862 and eventually purchased the company from Bradley's widow in 1870.

History

The company began publishing books in 1876, and in 1882 T. Irving Crowell joined his father in the business. Jeremiah Osborne Crowell became the sales manager. In 1909, after Thomas Y. Crowell died, T. Irving Crowell became the company's president. Then in 1937, after T. Irving Crowell retired, the third generation

Robert L. Crowell The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

took over and moved towards publishing trade books and biographies. They were sold to Dun & Bradstreet in 1968. In 1974, Crowell acquired the textbook publisher Intext, which also owned the trade publisher Abelard-Schuman. In 1978, the company was sold to Harper & Row, which bought

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and combined the two into Lippincott & Crowell in 1979. Lippincott & Crowell was merged into Harper & Row in 1980.

Published works

Reference works

*The French Revolution, A History (1 volume), 1893 *Works of Washington Irving * ''

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'' International *''The

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of Business and Finance'' * a Social Studies Series *''

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'' (at least 1964–1970) *'' Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia'' * ''The Soldiers' Diary and Note Book'', revised edition * ''

Dictionary of American Slang The ''Dictionary of American Slang'' was edited by Stuart Flexner and Harold Wentworth and first published in 1960 by Thomas Crowell Company. The first three editions (1960, 1967, 1975) were edited by Flexner and Wentworth, while the fourth (1995 ...

'', 1960 * '' Motion Pictures in Education''

Non fiction

*''Cheaper by the Dozen'', 1948, by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and

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Fiction

* Frank Heller detective/mystery series, *''The Works of William Shakespeare'' by William Shakespeare (undated) *Eight books in the ''Nine to Twelve Series'' for older children *''The Children of the Valley'' by Harriet Prescott Spofford *''Little Dick's Son'' by Kate Gannett Wells *''Marcia & the Major'' by J.L. Harbour * ''Song of the Bell'' by Friedrich Schiller *''How Dexter Paid His Way'' by Kate Upson Clark *''The Flatiron and the Red Cloak'' by Abby Morton Diaz *''In the Poverty Year'' by Marian Douglas *''Little Sky-High'' by Hezekiah Butterworth *''The Little Cave-Dwellers'' by Ella Farman Pratt *''The Poetical Works of John Milton'' by

John Milton John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem ''Paradise Lost'', written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and politica ...

*''Westward the Sun'' by Brigid Knight (1942) * The ''Betsy-Tacy'' books by Maud Hart Lovelace *"Jed - A Boy's Adventure in the Army of 61-65 - A Story of Battle and Prison, of Peril and Escape" by Warren Lee Goss *"Poems, Plays and Essays" of

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, M.B. *"Poems: 'Longfellow's Early Poems" by

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*Poems:Selections From The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Second Series *"Poems: '

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, with an Introduction by William Peterfield Trent" (1900) *"Poems: ' Idylls of the King' by

Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his ...

(1885) *"Poems: 'Proctor's Poems'" by

Adelaide Anne Proctor Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist. Her literary career began when she was a teenager, her poems appearing in Charles Dickens's periodicals ''Household Words'' and '' All the ...

(1880) *"Poems: 'Macaulay's Poems" by Lord Thomas Macaulay *'' Rifles for Watie'' by

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(1957) (1958

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) *'' Faust: A Tragedy.'' by

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, Ed. F.H. Hedge, D.D. *''Cranford'' by Mrs. Gaskell * ''

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: A Romance'', by

Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels '' Ivanhoe'', '' Rob Roy ...

, Bart., 1898 (illustrated by Allan Stewart) * '' Father Fox's Pennyrhymes'', children's book of

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meani ...

by Clyde Watson, with illustrations by her sister, Wendy Watson *Wordsworth's Complete Poetical Works...New York Thomas Y. Crowell Company Publishers (The Complete Poetical works of William Wordsworth with an introduction by John Morley dated 1888) *Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray ... New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers

Book series

* Astor Edition of Poetry * Astor Edition of Prose * Astor Library of Standard Literature * Children's Favorite Classics * Crowell's Colonial Series * Crowell's Red Line Poets * Famous Men and Women Library * Half-Hour Classics * Handy Volume Classics * Luxembourg Edition * Luxembourg Illustrated Classics Series * Luxembourg Illustrated Library * Masters of Contemporary Photography * Popular Books for Young People (also known as: Crowell's Library for Young People) * Sunday School Library, No. 1 * Well Spent Hour Library * What is Worth While SeriesWhat is Worth While Series
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References

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