Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers

Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
Status Defunct
Founded 1994
Founder Daniel Kirkpatrick and George Walsh
Successor Routledge
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location Chicago
Publication types Books
Nonfiction topics Reference

Fitzroy Dearborn was an American publisher.

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.[1] Taylor & Francis itself subsequently merged with Informa plc.

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 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

  1. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers acquired by T&F, The Bookseller 2002-09-09

External links

Fitzroy Dearborn imprint at Amazon

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