T&T Clark is a British

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firm which was founded in

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, in 1821 and which now exists as an imprint of

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History

The firm was founded in 1821 by Thomas Clark, then aged 22 and who had a

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background. The company was originally concerned with law and foreign literature and published under the name of "Thomas Clark". He was joined in a partnership in 1846 by his nephew, also named Thomas Clark.About T & T Clark
Continuum International Publishing Group, archive.ph. Retrieved 3 December 2022. With the arrival of younger Thomas Clark (1823-1900) the firm began issuing works under the name of "T. & T. Clark". In the 1830s, it began to develop a

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list, taking a progressive

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stance and at times, publishing books that were not likely to make a profit. It published work by scholars in both Europe and North America. Its most substantial projects were the English translation of the '' Ante-Nicene Fathers'' (which the firm titled ''Ante-Nicene Christian Library'') and the ''

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''. These were only viable because of the existence of a large American market; however, in the 1880s the firm got into a dispute with the Fleming H. Revell Company, over the American firm's copyright violation of some of T&T Clark's titles. The ''Ante-Nicene Library'' was bootlegged by the Christian Literature Publishing Company, based in

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. However, this did not prevent T&T Clark from doing business with them.''The T. & T. Clark Story: A Victorian Publisher and the New Theology : with an Epilogue Covering the Twentieth-century History of the Firm'', Edinburgh: Pentland Press, 1992, p. 108ff. In 1965, the company began to publish '' Concilium'', an

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theology. In 2003, the three religious academic imprints of

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, Trinity Press International and T&T Clark were all acquired by the Continuum International Publishing Group, which itself was acquired by

in 2011.

Reference works

''Each of the following four works was edited by

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'' * '' Dictionary of the Bible'', (1898–1904), 5 vols. * ''

'', (1908–1926; 2nd edition 1925–1940, reprint 1955), 13 vols. * ''The Great Texts of the Bible'', (1910–1915), 20 vols. * ''The Greater Men and Women of the Bible'', (1913–1916), 6 vols.

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