Thomas Y. Crowell Co. was a
publishing
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company founded by
Thomas Y. Crowell. The company began as a bookbindery founded by Benjamin Bradley in 1834. Crowell operated the business after Bradley's death in 1862 and eventually purchased the company from Bradley's widow in 1870.
History
The company began publishing books in 1876, and in 1882 T. Irving Crowell joined his father in the business. Jeremiah Osborne Crowell became the sales manager.
In 1909, after Thomas Y. Crowell died, T. Irving Crowell became the company's president. Then in 1937, after T. Irving Crowell retired, the third generation Robert L. Crowell took over and moved towards publishing trade books and biographies. They were sold to
Dun & Bradstreet
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in 1968.
Crowell acquired the textbook publisher Intext in 1974, which also owned the trade publisher Abelard-Schuman.
In 1978, the company was sold to
Harper & Row
Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher HarperCollins, based in New York City. Founded in New York in 1817 by James Harper and his brother John, the company operated as J. & J. Harper until 1833, when ...
, which bought
Lippincott and briefly combined the two as Lippincott & Crowell in 1979 before consolidating them into Harper & Row in 1980.
The Thomas Y. Crowell Publishers Records are housed in the Syracuse University Library's Special Collections Research Center. The records are composed mainly of correspondence with authors, agents, other publishing firms and interested persons.
Published works
Reference works
*The French Revolution, A History (1 volume), 1893
*Works of Washington Irving
* ''
Roget's Thesaurus
''Roget's Thesaurus'' is a widely used English-language thesaurus, created in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer.
History
It was released to the public on 29 April 1852. Roget was ...
'' International
*''The
Dictionary
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of Business and Finance''
* a
Social Studies
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Series
*''
The Radio Amateur's Handbook'' (at least 1964–1970)
*''
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia''
* ''The Soldiers' Diary and Note Book'', revised edition
* ''
Dictionary of American Slang'', 1960
* ''
Motion Pictures in Education''
Fiction
*''
Cheaper by the Dozen
''Cheaper by the Dozen'' is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, published in 1948. The novel recounts the authors' childhood lives growing up in a household of 12 children. The bes ...
'', 1948, by
Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
*
Frank Heller detective/mystery series,
*''The Works of William Shakespeare'' by William Shakespeare (undated)
*Eight books in the ''Nine to Twelve Series'' for older children
*''The Children of the Valley'' by
Harriet Prescott Spofford
*''Little Dick's Son'' by
Kate Gannett Wells
Kate Gannett Wells (born Catherine Boott Gannett; April 6, 1838 – December 13, 1911) was an American writer and social reformer, and a prominent member of the Anti-suffragism, anti-suffragist movement in the United States. Wells served on the Ma ...
*''Marcia & the Major'' by J.L. Harbour
* ''Song of the Bell'' by
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright.
He was born i ...
*''How Dexter Paid His Way'' by
Kate Upson Clark
*''The Flatiron and the Red Cloak'' by
Abby Morton Diaz
*''In the Poverty Year'' by
Marian Douglas
*''Little Sky-High'' by
Hezekiah Butterworth
*''The Little Cave-Dwellers'' by
Ella Farman Pratt
*''The Poetical Works of John Milton'' by
John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem ''Paradise Lost'' was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and politic ...
*''Westward the Sun'' by Brigid Knight (1942)
* The ''Betsy-Tacy'' books by
Maud Hart Lovelace
*"Jed - A Boy's Adventure in the Army of 61-65 - A Story of Battle and Prison, of Peril and Escape" by Warren Lee Goss
*"Poems, Plays and Essays" of
Oliver Goldsmith
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, M.B.
*"Poems: 'Longfellow's Early Poems" by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems " Paul Revere's Ride", '' The Song of Hiawatha'', and '' Evangeline''. He was the first American to comp ...
*Poems:Selections From The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Second Series
*"Poems: '
The Courtship of Miles Standish'" by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems " Paul Revere's Ride", '' The Song of Hiawatha'', and '' Evangeline''. He was the first American to comp ...
*"Poems: 'The Complete Poetical Works of
Robert Burns
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the List of national poets, national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the be ...
" © 1900
*"Poems: 'The Poems of
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll ...
, with an Introduction by
William Peterfield Trent" (1900)
*"Poems: '
Idylls of the King' by
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of ...
(1885)
*"Poems: 'Proctor's Poems'" by
Adelaide Anne Proctor (1880)
*"Poems: 'Macaulay's Poems" by
Lord Thomas Macaulay
*"Poems: 'Byron's Poetical Works : The Poems and Dramas of Lord Byron' by
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1903)
*''
Rifles for Watie'' by
Harold Keith (1957) (1958
Newbery Award)
*''
Faust
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: A Tragedy.'' by
Goethe
Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...
, Ed. F.H. Hedge, D.D.
*''Cranford'' by
Mrs. Gaskell
* ''
Ivanhoe
''Ivanhoe: A Romance'' ( ) by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. It marked a shift away from Scott's prior practice of setting stories in Scotland and in the more ...
: A Romance'', by
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European literature, European and Scottish literature, notably the novels ''Ivanhoe'' (18 ...
, Bart., 1898 (illustrated by
Allan Stewart)
* ''
Father Fox's Pennyrhymes'',
children's book
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of
poetry
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by Clyde Watson, with illustrations by her sister, Wendy Watson
*Wordsworth's Complete Poetical Works...New York Thomas Y. Crowell Company Publishers (The Complete Poetical works of William Wordsworth with an introduction by John Morley dated 1888)
*Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray ... New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers
*''
The Drugstore Cat'' by
Ann Petry and illustrated by
Susanne Suba (1949)
Book series
* Astor Edition of Poetry
* Astor Edition of Prose
* Astor Library of Standard Literature
* Children's Favorite Classics
* Crowell's Colonial Series
* Crowell's Red Line Poets
* Famous Men and Women Library
* Half-Hour Classics
* Handy Volume Classics
* Luxembourg Edition
* Luxembourg Illustrated Classics Series
* Luxembourg Illustrated Library
* Masters of Contemporary Photography
* Popular Books for Young People (also known as: Crowell's Library for Young People)
* Sunday School Library, No. 1
* Well Spent Hour Library
* What is Worth While Series
What is Worth While Series
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References
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