Fondata nel 1925 dal comasco Renzo Ermes Ceschina (1875 - 1945) con l'aiuto finanziario del fratello Gaetano, industriale, iniziò pubblicando opere di storia, letteratura e arte. Dal 1939 per i suoi tipi fu edita la rivista trimestrale «Epigrafica»
Chapman & Hall were publishers for Charles Dickens (from 1840 until 1844 and again from 1858 until 1870), Thomas Carlyle, William Thackeray, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anthony Trollope, Eadweard Muybridge and Evelyn Waugh.
Formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten. Following Hotten's death, the firm would reorganize under the names of his business partner Andrew Chatto and poet William Edward Windus.
A. Constable & Co. was a British publishing company founded in 1795 by Archibald Constable (1774-1827) as Constable & Co.. In 1804, the firm was renamed A. Constable & Co.. In 1999, it merges with Robinson Publishing Ltd to become Constable & Robinson. In 2014 Constable & Robinson was purchased by Little, Brown Book Group.
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 literature.
Elliot Stock (1838 - 1 March 1911) was an English publisher and bibliophile who collected first editions. The publishing company that bore his name was in business from 1859 to 1939
Frederick Warne & Co. is a British publisher founded in 1865. It is known for children's books, particularly those of Beatrix Potter, and for its Observer's Books.
Frederick Abbott Stokes (November 4, 1857 – November 15, 1939) was an American publisher, founder and long-time head of the eponymous Frederick A. Stokes Company
La Casa Editrice Barbèra è una casa editrice italiana, fondata a Firenze nel 1860 da Gaspero Barbèra, il quale aveva già aperto con altri una tipografia nel 1854 e una società editrice nel 1855.
Gall and Inglis' (1810 - 1960) were Edinburgh based publishers. The firm was founded c. 1810 by James Gall. Gall went through a series of partnerships with other publishers including Turnbull, Hay, and finally Robert Inglis.
George Bell & Sons was a book publishing house located in London, United Kingdom, from 1839 to 1986. George Bell & Sons was founded by George Bell as an educational bookseller, with the intention of selling the output of London university presses; but became best known as an independent publisher of classics and children's books.
George G. Harrap, Ltd (officially: George G. Harrap and Company Limited, London, Bombay) is a now defunct publisher of high quality speciality books, many of them educational, such as the memoirs of Winston Churchill, or highly illustrated with line drawings, engravings or etchings, such as the much republished classic educational children's book The Cave Boy of the Age of Stonefrom at least 1901 into the 1980s
The firm originated in 1836, when the London bookseller George Routledge published an unsuccessful guidebook, The Beauties of Gilsland, with his brother-in-law W. H. (William Henry) Warne as assistant. In 1848, the pair entered the booming market for selling inexpensive imprints of works of fiction to rail travellers, in the style of the German Tauchnitz family, which became known as the "Railway Library".
J. B. Lippincott & Co. was an American publishing house founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1836 by Joshua Ballinger Lippincott. It was incorporated in 1885 as J. B. Lippincott Company.
