Fitzroy Dearborn was an American publisher of academic library reference titles with offices in London and Chicago. It was acquired by Taylor & Francis as an imprint of Routledge Reference in 2002, before Taylor & Francis merged with

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. At the time of its sale, the company had a backlist of 350 titles.

History

Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers was founded in 1994 by Daniel Kirkpatrick and George Walsh. The company was a publisher of academic library reference titles with offices in London and Chicago. It was acquired by the UK-based Taylor & Francis Group as an imprint of Routledge Reference in 2002. Taylor & Francis itself subsequently merged with

. At the time of its sale, the company had a backlist of 350 titles, many of them award-winning.

Name

The name of the company was derived from the districts of London and Chicago in which its offices were located, Fitzrovia and Dearborn respectively.

Titles

Fitzroy Dearborn's titles included: *''Dictionary of Artists' Models.'' *''Dictionary of Women Artists.'' *'' Encyclopedia of African History'' *''Encyclopedia of AIDS.'' *''Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography.'' *''Encyclopedia of the Essay.'' *''Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition.'' *''Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing.'' *'' Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture.'' *''Encyclopedia of Interior Design.'' *''Encyclopedia of Life Writing. '' *''Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English.'' *''Encyclopedia of Mexico.'' *''Encyclopedia of Monasticism.'' *''Encyclopedia of the Novel. '' *''Encyclopedia of the Palestinians.'' *''Encyclopedia of Sculpture.'' *''Encyclopedia of Television.'' *''International Book Publishing An Encyclopedia.'' *''Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century.'' *''Reader's Guide to American History.'' *''Reader's Guide to the History of Science.'' *''Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies'' *''Reader's Guide to Literature in English.'' *''Reader's Guide to Military History.'' *''Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences.'' *''Reference Guide to Russian Literature.''

References

External links

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