Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
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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.[http://www.thebookseller.com/news/27933-fitzroy-dearborn-publishers-acquired-by-tf.html Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers acquired by T&F] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229133415/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/27933-fitzroy-dearborn-publishers-acquired-by-tf.html |date=2012-02-29 }}, The Bookseller, 9 September 2002 Taylor & Francis itself subsequently merged with Informa.{{Cite news|last=Newswires|first=Kay Larsen Dow Jones|date=2004-03-02|title=Informa and T&F Agree to Stock Merger In $1.06 Million Deal|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB107822329404143976|access-date=2021-03-19|issn=0099-9660}}
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. {{ISBN|1-57958-233-8}}
- Dictionary of Women Artists. {{ISBN|1-884964-21-4}}
- Encyclopedia of African History
- Encyclopedia of AIDS. {{ISBN|1-57958-007-6}}
- Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography. {{ISBN|1-57958-009-2}}
- Encyclopedia of the Essay. {{ISBN|1-884964-30-3}}
- Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition. {{ISBN|1-57958-141-2}}
- Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. {{ISBN|1-884964-33-8}}
- Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. {{ISBN|1-884964-98-2}}
- Encyclopedia of Interior Design. {{ISBN|1-884964-19-2}}
- Encyclopedia of Life Writing. {{ISBN|1-57958-232-X}}
- Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English. {{ISBN|1-884964-36-2}}
- Encyclopedia of Mexico. {{ISBN|1-884964-31-1}}
- Encyclopedia of Monasticism. {{ISBN|1-57958-090-4}}
- Encyclopedia of the Novel. {{ISBN|1-57958-015-7}}
- Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. {{ISBN|1-57958-208-7}}
- Encyclopedia of Sculpture. {{ISBN|1-57958-248-6}}
- Encyclopedia of Television. {{ISBN|1-884964-26-5}}
- International Book Publishing An Encyclopedia. {{ISBN|1-884964-16-8}}
- Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. {{ISBN|1-57958-313-X}}
- Reader's Guide to American History. {{ISBN|1-884964-22-2}}
- Reader's Guide to the History of Science. {{ISBN|1-884964-29-X}}
- Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies {{ISBN|1-57958-142-0}}
- Reader's Guide to Literature in English. {{ISBN|1-884964-20-6}}
- Reader's Guide to Military History. {{ISBN|1-57958-241-9}}
- Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. {{ISBN|1-57958-091-2}}
- Reference Guide to Russian Literature. {{ISBN|1-884964-10-9}}
References
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External links
- {{oweb|http://www.fitzroydearborn.com}}
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Category:Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom
Category:Book publishing companies of the United States