D. Appleton & Company

• 1813 Relocated from Haverhill to Boston and imported books from England • 1825 Relocated New York City and entered the book business with brother-in-law Jonathan Leavitt by William Mason (1719–1791) • 1848 Daniel Appleton retired; son William Henry Appleton (1814–1899) formed a partnership with his brothers, John Adams Appleton (1817–1881), George Swett Appleton (1821–1878), Daniel Sidney Appleton (1824–1890) and Samuel Francis Appleton (1826–1883) • 1849 Death of Daniel Appleton • 1857 First New York trade publisher to engage in subscription publishing • 1869 ''Appleton's Journal'' started • 1872 Popular Science Monthly magazine and International Scientific Series started by editor Edward L. Youmans • 1875 Original publication of the memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman, one of the first such publications by a Civil War general • 1881 Relocated from Leonard Street and Broadway, to Bond Street, New York City; Journal becomes ''Appleton's Magazine'' • 1890 Co-founded American Book Company, a conglomerate including D. Appleton & Company • 1894 Published Songs of the Soil by Frank Lebby Stanton • 1900 Filed for bankruptcy and sold Popular Science; re-organized by Joseph H. Sears of Harper's • 1905 ''Appleton's Magazine renamed Appleton's Booklovers Magazine'' • 1919 J. W. Hiltman named president • 1924 Purchased Stewart and Kidd, founded in 1914 • 1931 Published I Sailed with Chinese Pirates by Aleko E. Lilius • 1933 Merged with The Century Company, founded in 1881, to form the Appleton-Century Company • 1945 Sold hymn books department to Revell Publishing • 1948 Merged with F. S. Crofts Co., founded in 1924, to form Appleton-Century-Crofts. == Publishing highlights ==

• • The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, 1895 • Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris, 1880 • ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' by Lewis Carroll, 1865, first U.S. edition • ''Appletons' Cyclopædia of Biography'' in 1 volume, 1856, edited by Francis L. Hawks, added American biographies to the volume edited by Elihu Rich and published in 1854 by Richard Griffin & Company (London). • ''Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography'' in 6 volumes, 1887, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske • ''Appleton's Railroad and Steamboat Guide'', 1847 • New American Cyclopedia in 16 volumes, edited by George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana, 1857–1863; revised and enlarged as American Cyclopedia (1873–1876) • Progress and Poverty 1880 • Annual Cyclopedia for the years 1861–1901, annual • ''Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia'' 1893, in 8 volumes edited by Charles Kendall Adams. The rights were acquired from Alvin J. Johnson & Co. • Universal Cyclopaedia 1900, in 12 volumes derived from ''Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia''. Edited by Charles Kendall Adams, and from 1902 by Rossiter Johnson, with title Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1889–1891, New Century Dictionary 1927–c. 1963 • Picturesque America by William Cullen Bryant, 1872 • Unabridged English Dictionary 1859 • works of Jonathan Edwards, 1834 (1703–1758) • science works of Charles Darwin (1809–1882) • Diseases of the Heart and Arterial System, by Dr. Robert Hall Babcock (1903) • Diseases of the Lungs by Dr. Robert Hall Babcock (1907) • Memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891) • The Works of Rudyard Kipling [Authorized Editions] 15 Volumes (1899) • literary works of Henry James (1843–1916) • art works of Edith Wharton (1862–1937) • architectural works of Stanford White (d. 1906) • Gems of British Art, 1857 • work of Thomas Henry Huxley, 1880 • From the Manger to the Throne 1880—1889 by REV. T. DeWitt Talmage, D.D. • American Negro Slavery by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, 1918 • The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis • A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor ==Gallery==

Image:1856 Appletons Book Store 346 & 348 Broadway New York.png|Appletons' bookshop, 346 & 348 Broadway, New York, 1856 Image:1867 Appletons Railway and Steam Navigation Guide June.png|''Appletons' Railway and Steam Navigation Guide'', 1867 Image:1870s D Appleton & Co stereoscopic views and implements Broadway NYC LC detail2.jpg|Display of D. Appleton & Co. stereoscopic views and implements, 1870s Image:Robbins & Appleton Building.jpg|Robbins & Appleton Building, New York, built 1880 (photo 2010) == See also ==