D. Appleton & Company

D. Appleton & Company

Status	Defunct
Founded	1831
Founder	Daniel Appleton
Successor	Appleton-Century
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	New York, New York

D. Appleton & Company was an American company founded by Daniel Appleton (December 10, 1785 - March 27, 1849), who opened a general store which included books.

Timeline

• 1813 Relocated from Haverhill to Boston and imported books from England
• 1825 Relocated to New York City and entered the book business with brother-in-law Jonathan Leavitt
• 1831 Published first book: Crumbs from the Master's Table by William Mason (1719-1791)
• 1848 Daniel Appleton retired; son William Henry Appleton (1814-1899) formed a partnership with his brothers, John Adams Appleton (1817-1881), George Swett Appleton (1821-1878), Daniel Sidney Appleton (1824-1890), and Samuel Francis Appleton (1826-1883)
• 1849 Death of Daniel Appleton
• 1857 First New York trade publisher to engage in subscription publishing
• 1872 Popular Science magazine started
• 1875 Original publication of the memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman, one of the first such publications by a Civil War general
• 1880 Co-founded American Book Company
• 1881 Relocated from Leonard Street and Broadway, to Bond Street, New York City
• 1894 Published Songs of the Soil by Frank Lebby Stanton
• 1900 Filed for bankruptcy and sold Popular Science; re-organized by Joseph H. Sears of Harper's
• 1919 J.W. Hiltman named president
• 1924 Purchased Stewart Kidd Publisher Co, founded in 1914
• 1933 Merged with The Century Company., founded in 1881, to form the Appleton-Century Company
• 1945 Sold hymn books department to Revell Publishing
• 1948 Merged with F.S. Crofts Co., founded in 1924, to form Appleton-Century-Crofts.
• 1960 Purchased by Meredith Publishing Company
• 1973 Appleton division purchased by Prentice Hall
• 1974 New Century division sold to Charles Walther, and eventually became part of Academic Learning Company, LLC
• 1998 Prentice Hall merged with Pearson Education
• 2003 Academic Learning Company, LLC acquired New Win Publishing, which was a division of New Century Publishing

Publishing Highlights

• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, 1895
• Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris, 1880
• Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Biography in 1 volume, 1856, edited by Francis L. Hawks, added American biographies to the volume edited by Elihu Rich and published in 1854 by Richard Griffin & Company (London).
• Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography in 6 volumes, 1887, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske
• Appleton's Railroad and Steamboat Guide, 1847
• New American Cyclopaedia in 16 volumes, edited by George Ripley and Charles Dana, 1857—1863; revised and enlarged as American Cyclopedia (1873—1876)
• Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia 1893, in 8 volumes edited by Charles Kendall Adams. The rights were acquired from Alvin J. Johnson & Co.
• Universal Cyclopaedia 1900, in 12 volumes derived from Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia. Edited by Charles Kendall Adams, and from 1902 by Rossiter Johnson, with title Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas
• The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1889—1891, New Century Dictionary 1927—c. 1963
• Picturesque America by William Cullen Bryant, 1872
• Unabridged English Dictionary 1859
• works of Jonathan Edwards, 1834 (1703—1758)
• science works of Charles Darwin (1809—1882)
• Memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman (1820—1891)
• The Works of Rudyard Kipling [Authorized Editions]15 Volumes (1899)
• literary works of Henry James (1843—1916)
• art works of Edith Wharton (1862—1937)
• architectural works of Stanford White (d. 1906)
• Gems of British Art, 1857
• work of T.H. Huxley, 1880
• From the Manger to the Throne 1880—1889 by REV. T. DeWitt Talmage, D.D.
• American Negro Slavery by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, 1918

See also

• Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography

References

• House of Appleton

External links

• Appleton-Century MSS
•  "Appleton, Daniel". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.  This has information on the firm's evolution.