Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers Explained
| Status: | Defunct |
| Founded: | 1994 |
| Founder: | Daniel Kirkpatrick and George Walsh |
| Successor: | Routledge |
| Country: | United States |
| Headquarters: | Chicago |
| Publications: | Books |
| Topics: | Reference |
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 Informa.
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.[1] Taylor & Francis itself subsequently merged with Informa.[2]
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.
Notes and References
- http://www.thebookseller.com/news/27933-fitzroy-dearborn-publishers-acquired-by-tf.html Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers acquired by T&F
- News: Newswires. Kay Larsen Dow Jones. 2004-03-02. Informa and T&F Agree to Stock Merger In $1.06 Million Deal. en-US. Wall Street Journal. 2021-03-19. 0099-9660.
