Publishers

Publishing in the 19th century was a free-for-all business, it seems. Houses came and went, merged, changed names, took back old names, etc. This page is intended not to be a comprehensive list of publishers and their works, but might be useful when trying to date a book.

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A. L. Burt

reprinter, often of juvenile series fiction, active first third of the 20th century

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William and Robert Chambers

Chambers's everything. Prolific repurposers, these brothers were champions at reissuing the same work in different guises. See, for instance, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, or Chambers's Miscellany.

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F. M. Lupton

reprinter of novels. These often undated books are usually octavo with crumbling pulp paper, often with tight margins, dropped letters and missing punctuation.

Other Resources

• The Lucile Project. This site details the publishing history of Owen Meredith's Lucile with information on many American publishers working in our period of interest.