Upon Hall's death in 1847, Chapman's cousin
Frederic Chapman began his progress through the ranks of the company and eventually becoming a partner in 1858 and sole proprietor on Edward Chapman's retirement from Chapman & Hall in 1866. In 1868 author
Anthony Trollope bought a third of the company for his son, Henry Merivale Trollope. From 1902 to 1930 the company's managing director was
Arthur Waugh. In the 1930s the company merged with
Methuen, a merger which, in 1955, participated in forming the
Associated Book Publishers. The latter was acquired by
The Thomson Corporation in 1987. Chapman & Hall was sold again in 1998 as part of Thomson Scientific and Professional to
Wolters Kluwer, who sold on its well-regarded mathematics and statistics list to
CRC Press. Today the name of Chapman & Hall/CRC is used as an
imprint for science and technology books by
Taylor and Francis, part of the
Informa group since 2004. Most notably, the company were publishers for
Charles Dickens (from 1840 until 1844 and again from 1858 until 1870),
Thomas Carlyle,
William Thackeray,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Anthony Trollope,
Eadweard Muybridge and
Evelyn Waugh. They continued to publish previously unpublished Dickens material well into the 20th century. Another popular author on the books in the 1880s was
Henry Hawley Smart. The firm kept an office at 186
Strand and later at 193
Piccadilly, as well as 11 Henrietta Street in
Covent Garden. ==Book series==