T&T Clark

T&T Clark is a British publishing firm which was founded in Edinburgh in 1821 and which now exists as an imprint of Continuum.

The founder was Thomas Clark, who had a Free Church background, and the company was originally concerned with law and foreign literature. In the 1830s it began to develop a theology list, taking a progressive Evangelical stance, and at times publishing books that were not likely to make a profits. Its most substantial projects were the English translation of the Ante-Nicene Fathers and the "Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics". These were only viable because of the existence of a large American market; however, in the 1880s the firm got into a dispute with Fleming H Revell over the American firm's pirating of some of T&T Clark's titles. The "Ante-Nicene Library" was pirated by New York's Christian Literature Company. However, this did prevent T&T Clark from doing business with them. In 1965 the company began to publish "Concilium", a Roman Catholic journal. In 2003, the three religious academic imprints of Sheffield Academic Press, Trinity Press International and T&T Clark were united under one imprint.

Bibliography

John A.H. Dempster, "The T&T Clark Story: A Victorian Publisher and the New Theology", Edinburgh: Pentland Press, 1992

Links

* [http://www.continuumbooks.com/AboutUs/default.aspx?ImprintID=5&CountryID=1 "About T&T Clark"] at Continuum Books