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.
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. Taylor & Francis itself subsequently merged with Informa. At the time of its sale, the company had a backlist of 350 titles, many of them award-winning. == Name ==
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 ==
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. == References ==