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The Century Company was an American publishing company, founded in 1881.


History

It began as a subsidiary of
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in 1870, named Scribner and Company, but was bought by Roswell Smith in 1881 and renamed by him after the
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. The magazine that the company had published up to that time, ''
Scribner's Monthly ''Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People'' was an illustrated American literary periodical published from 1870 until 1881. Following a change in ownership in 1881 of the company that had produced it, the magazine was relaunc ...
'', was renamed the ''Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine''. The Century Company was also the publisher of
St. Nicholas Magazine ''St. Nicholas'' was a popular monthly American children's magazine, founded by Scribner's in 1873 and named after the Christian saint. The first editor was Mary Mapes Dodge, who continued her association with the magazine until her death in 1 ...
from the time of its founding. William Morgan Schuster became president of the Century Company of New York City in 1915. In 1933, the Century Company merged with publisher D. Appleton & Company to form Appleton-Century Company, and later merged with F.S. Crofts & Co. to form
Appleton-Century-Crofts Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. was a division of the Meredith Publishing Company. It was a result of the merger of Appleton-Century Company with F.S. Crofts Co. in 1948. Prior to that The Century Company had merged with D. Appleton & Company ...
in 1947. Schuster remained president throughout the mergers, until his retirement in 1952.
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bought Appleton-Century-Crofts in 1960, and sold its textbook division to
Prentice Hall Prentice Hall was a major American publishing#Textbook_publishing, educational publisher. It published print and digital content for the 6–12 and higher-education market. It was an independent company throughout the bulk of the twentieth cen ...
in 1973.


Imprints

* Century Vagabond Books


See also

* ''
Century Dictionary ''The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia'' is one of the largest encyclopedic dictionaries of the English language. It was compared favorably with the ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' and frequently consulted for more factual information than woul ...
'' *
Century type family Century is a family of serif type faces particularly intended for body text. The family originates from a first design, Century Roman, cut by American Type Founders designer Linn Boyd Benton in 1894 for master printer Theodore Low De Vinne, for ...
*
Duell, Sloan and Pearce Duell, Sloan and Pearce was a publishing company located in New York City. It was founded in 1939 by C. Halliwell Duell, Samuel Sloan and Charles A. Pearce. It initially published general fiction and non-fiction, but not westerns, light romances or ...
* Meredith Publishing Company *
Theodore Low De Vinne Theodore Low De Vinne (December 25, 1828 – February 16, 1914) was an American printer and scholarly author on typography. Considered "the leading commercial printer of his day," De Vinne began the professionalization of American printing, ...


Notes


References

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External links


History of the Century Company at New York Public Library
Publishing companies established in 1881 Defunct book publishing companies of the United States 1881 establishments in New York (state) {{US-publish-company-stub