Pickering & Chatto Publishers
{{Short description|British academic publisher}}
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| founded = 1820
| founder = William Pickering
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| country = United Kingdom
| headquarters = London, United Kingdom
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| publications = Academic monographs, critical editions, thematic source collections
| topics = Humanities and social sciences
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| url = https://www.routledge.com/posts/5009
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Pickering & Chatto is an imprint of Routledge which publishes in the humanities and social sciences, specializing in monographs, critical editions (works, diaries, correspondence) and thematic source collections.{{cite web|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/rivals-attack-oup-and-cup.html |title= Rivals attack OUP and CUP |publisher= thebookseller.com |date= 2008-04-24 |accessdate=2014-03-14}} Pickering & Chatto's academic monographs have an international reputation and its critical editions and source collections are critically acclaimed.{{cite web|url=http://www.docenotas.com/portada/publicaciones/libros/las-metaforas-musicales-del-poder |title=Las metáforas musicales del poser |publisher=docenotas.com |date= 21 February 2014|accessdate=2014-03-14}}{{cite web |url=http://www.academicrightspress.com/content/view/74/106/ |title=Pickering & Chatto Women's Studies Collection |publisher=academicrightspress.com |accessdate=2014-03-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714192855/http://www.academicrightspress.com/content/view/74/106/ |archivedate=2014-07-14 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.nlx.com/collections/157/ |title= Works of Daniel Defoe. Pickering & Chatto Edition. |publisher= nlx.com |date= |accessdate=2014-11-03}}{{cite web|url= http://www.cambridge.org/about-us/media/press-releases/cambridge-university-press-announces-new-partner-digital-publishing-platform/ |title=Cambridge University Press announces new partner for digital publishing platform |publisher= Cambridge University Press (cambridge.org) |date= |accessdate=2015-05-01}} Pickering & Chatto is regarded as "the pre-eminent publisher of critical editions in the humanities and social sciences".{{cite web|url=http://alexanderstreet.com/products/romanticism-redefined-pickering-chatto-and-wordsworth-circle/ |title= Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle |publisher= alexanderstreet.com |date= |accessdate=2014-11-03}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bars.ac.uk/publishing/Romanticeraredefined.htm |title=The Romantic Era Redefined |publisher= The British Association for Romantic Studies (bars.ac.uk) |date =|accessdate= 2014-03-14}}
History
The origins of the company can be traced back to William Pickering (1796–1854), who set up as an antiquarian bookseller and publisher in 1820. After his death, the business was carried on by his son, Basil Montagu Pickering.{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22213 |title=Pickering, William (1796–1854) |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/22213 |accessdate=2014-03-14}} On his death, in 1878, it was purchased by Andrew Chatto (1841–1913), one of the founding partners of Chatto and Windus.{{cite web|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/chatto-windus
|title=Chatto & Windus |publisher=The Open University |date=|accessdate=2013-05-09}}{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/about-us/about-us/companies/uk-companies-and-imprints/vintage-publishing/chatto-windus |title=Chatto & Windus |publisher=Randomhouse.co.uk |date=|accessdate=2014-11-14}}
By the early twentieth century Pickering & Chatto was solely concerned with antiquarian book selling.{{cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47445 |title=Chatto, Andrew (1840–1913) |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/47445 |accessdate=2014-05-09|last1=Weedon |first1=Alexis }}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/world/europe/william-rees-mogg-former-editor-of-the-times-of-london-dies-at-84.html?_r=0 |title=William Rees-Mogg, Ex-Editor of The Times of London, Dies at 84 |work =The New York Times |date=2013-01-04 |accessdate=2014-03-14}}
Lord William Rees-Mogg bought Pickering & Chatto in 1981.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/dec/29/william-rees-mogg-obituary |title=Lord Rees-Mogg obituary |publisher=Guardian.co.uk |date=2012-12-29 |accessdate=2013-05-09}}{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/9771814/Lord-Rees-Mogg.html |title=Lord Rees-Mogg |publisher=telegraph.co.uk |date=2012-12-30 |accessdate=2014-03-14}} In 1983 he re-established Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited as an independent publishing house, serving as chairman and proprietor.{{cite book|last1=Baker|first1=William|last2=Lucas|first2=Helen|last3=Treharne|first3=Elaine|title=The English Association: One Hundred Years on|date=30 December 2006|publisher=English Association|location=Leicester|isbn=9780900232251|page=50|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wvMvAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=21 November 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9770732/William-Rees-Mogg.html |title=William Rees-Mogg |publisher=telegraph.co.uk |date=2010-12-29 |accessdate=2014-03-14}} In 1993 the antiquarian bookselling business became an entirely separate enterprise and there is now no connection between the two companies.{{cite web|url= http://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Home.html
|title=Pickering & Chatto Antiquarian Booksellers |publisher= |date=|accessdate=2013-05-09}}
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited was based in Bloomsbury{{cite web|url= http://www.publishersglobal.com/directory/publisher-profile/5921/ |title=Pickering & Chatto Publishers |publisher=Publishersglobal.com |date= |accessdate=2013-05-09}} until March 2015, when it was acquired by the Taylor & Francis Group and became an imprint of Routledge.{{cite web|url=http://www.bertolimitchell.co.uk/dealsummary_Pickering_Chatto.html |title=Bertoli Mitchell arranges the sale of Pickering and Chatto to Taylor & Francis |publisher= bertolimitchell.co.uk |date =|accessdate= 2015-05-01}}{{cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/posts/5009 |title= Routledge Welcomes Pickering & Chatto |publisher= routledge.com |date =|accessdate=2015-09-11}}
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