Lee & Shepard

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Publishing and bookselling firm in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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::summary Publishing and bookselling firm in Boston, Massachusetts, USA ::

| width = 200 | image1 = WilliamLee Boston BayStateMonthly1885.png | alt1 = William Lee | image2 = Charles AB Shepard Boston BayStateMonthly1885.png | alt2 = Charles A.B. Shepard | footer = William Lee (l.) and Charles A.B. Shepard NOTOC Lee & Shepard (1862-1905) was a publishing and bookselling firm in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century, established by William Lee (1826–1906) and Charles Augustus Billings Shepard (1829–1889) Authors published by the firm included: George Melville Baker; Sophie May; Henry Morgan; Oliver Optic; William Carey Richards; Francis Henry Underwood; Madeline Leslie and Levina Buoncuore Urbino. The business conducted its operations from offices at 149 Washington St. (ca.1872); the corner of Franklin and Hawley Street (1873–1885); and "adjoining the Old South," no. 10 Milk Street (ca.1885).

One of the first titles issued by the firm was the diary of Adam Gurowski, reviewed in 1862 by the New York Evening Post: "This work is a crabbed specimen of authorship. ... The humor of it is sometimes that of Thersites, when his thorny tongue lashed the heroes of the camp, and sometimes that of Caliban when he cursed the arts of his superiors. ... Yet it is a book to be carefully read. Under its rough and prickly burr there is a nutritive nut."

In 1905 Lee & Shepard merged with the Lothrop Company to form Lothrop, Lee & Shepard.

Lothrop, Lee & Shepard was eventually acquired by William Morrow and Company, which would be acquired by HarperCollins in 1999. Lothrop shut down its children's division soon after the acquisition. Lothrop is now an Imprint of HarperCollins.

Images

Image:1866 FruitCulture byCharlesBaker p315.png|Illustration from: Charles R. Baker's Practical and scientific fruit culture (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1866) Image:1872 OliverOptic OurBoys and Girls v11 no227.png|"Larry is saved." From: Our Boys and Girls Monthly, 1872 Image:1881 Lee Shepard MCMA exhibit1 Boston.png|Display booth of Lee & Shepard at the exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, held in Mechanics Hall, on Huntington Avenue, Boston, 1881 Image:1885 MyLadysCasket byEleanorTalbot frontispiece.png|From: Eleanor Talbot's My Lady's Casket (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1885) Image:1885 MyLadysCasket byEleanorTalbot 1.png|From: Eleanor Talbot's My Lady's Casket (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1885)

References

References

  1. Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society: 1880-1889
  2. Shepard had a previous publishing and bookselling firm in the 1850s: Shepard, Clark & Co.; cf. Boston Directory. 1856
  3. "Charles A.B. Shepard." Publishers Weekly, February 2, 1889; p.98-99
  4. WorldCat. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n82-94412 Baker, George Melville 1832-1890]
  5. WorldCat. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-no90-15635 Richards, William C. (William Carey) 1818-1892]
  6. WorldCat. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n85-318703 Underwood, Francis Henry 1825-1894]
  7. "Madeline Leslie". WorldCat.
  8. Austin. 1885
  9. Quoted in: ''The Living Age'', No. 971, January 10, 1863
  10. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/09/03/101396294.pdf Boston notes: The Consolidation of Lothrop Company and Lee & Shepard. ''New York Times'', September 3, 1904.]
  11. "News Corporation Announces Plans to Acquire William Morrow & Company and Avon Books from the Hearst Corporation - News Corporation Announces Plans to Acquire William Morrow & Company and Avon Books from the Hearst Corporation | Hearst".
  12. "HarperCollins, Morrow Merge Children's Divisions".
  13. [http://www.jacketflap.com/lothrop-lee-and-shepard-books-publisher-4106 Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books - Publisher Contact Information] Retrieved January 17, 2013.

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