Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd was a British publishing house with its head office in London. The firm had published books for over 100 years. It was acquired by Hodder & Stoughton in 1987 and became part of the

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group in 2001. In 2006, Hodder Arnold sold its academic journals to SAGE Publications. In 2012, Hodder Education sold its medical and higher education lines, including Arnold, to

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. Edward Arnold published books and journals for students, academics and professionals.

Founder

Edward Augustus Arnold was born in

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on 15 July 1857. His grandfather was Thomas Arnold and his uncle

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. He was educated at Eton and

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. From 1883 he worked as a magazine editor for the firm of Richard Bentley and from 1887 edited ''

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'' for the John Murray publishing house. He set up his own publishing business in January 1890. Trading under his own name and later as Edward Arnold & Co., he specialized in educational books, exploration, mountaineering, Egyptology, and medical and scientific texts. He published most of

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's major works. He died at

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on 6 November 1942.Bryan Bennett, ‘Arnold, Edward Augustus (1857–1942)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 200
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Book series

* Studies in English Literature * Studies in French Literature

Footnotes

Bibliography

* Bryan Bennett and Anthony Hamilton, ''Edward Arnold: 100 Years of Publishing'', London: Edward Arnold odder & Stoughton 1990. . Illustrated with black and white plates and recounts the publishing company of Edward Arnold & Co. in the years 1890–1990. *

External links

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