Chapman & Hall is an imprint owned by

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, originally founded as a

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in London in the first half of the 19th century by Edward Chapman and William Hall. Chapman & Hall were publishers for

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(from 1840 until 1844 and again from 1858 until 1870),

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, William Thackeray, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,

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and

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History

Upon Hall's death in 1847, Chapman's cousin Frederic Chapman began his progress through the ranks of the company and eventually becoming a partner in 1858 and sole proprietor on Edward Chapman's retirement from Chapman & Hall in 1866. In 1868 author

bought a third of the company for his son, Henry Merivale Trollope. From 1902 to 1930 the company's managing director was Arthur Waugh. In the 1930s the company merged with Methuen, a merger which, in 1955, participated in forming the Associated Book Publishers. The latter was acquired by The Thomson Corporation in 1987. Chapman & Hall was sold again in 1998 as part of Thomson Scientific and Professional to

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, who sold on its well-regarded mathematics and statistics list to

. Today the name of Chapman & Hall/CRC is used as an imprint for science and technology books by

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, part of the Informa group since 2004. Most notably, the company were publishers for

(from 1840 until 1844 and again from 1858 until 1870),

, William Thackeray, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,

and

. They continued to publish previously unpublished Dickens material well into the 20th century. Another popular author on the books in the 1880s was Henry Hawley Smart. The firm kept an office at 186 Strand and later at 193

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, as well as 11 Henrietta Street in Covent Garden.

Book series

* Chapman and Hall's 2/- Net Library * Fish and Fisheries Series * The Foreign Library * Library of Travel * The Select Library of Fiction * XVIII Century French RomancesXVIII Century French Romances
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History of CRC Press
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