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A portrait of Joshua Ballinger Lippincott by Thomas Eakins. Joshua Ballinger Lippincott (March 18, 1813 – January 5, 1886) [2] founded the publishing company in Philadelphia when he was 23 years old. J. B. Lippincott & Co. began business publishing Bibles and prayer books before expanding into history, biography, fiction, poetry, and gift books.
These albums were huge sellers for Altemus and were the mainstay of their publishing business until the mid-1880s. The albums were supplanted by Bibles in the 1880s. Starting in 1889, books were published with the Henry Altemus imprint. Like other publishers of its era, it published a wide variety of titles, in a wide variety of formats.
The Potts House at 3905 Spruce Street in Philadelphia.A mid-nineteenth century villa, it serves as home of the press [2]. The press was originally incorporated with by the Pennsylvania state government on March 26, 1890, [3] and the imprint of the University of Pennsylvania Press first appeared on publications in the 1890s, among the earliest such imprints in America.
National Publishing Company is a historic book publisher in the United States. It was established in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Joshua R. Jones. [1] In 1878 the business had a five-storey building constructed for its headquarters at 726 Cherry Street in Philadelphia. [2] The publisher produced bibles, books of maps, encyclopedias and other ...
The Curtis Publishing Company was founded in 1891 by publisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis, who published the People's Ledger, a news magazine he launched in Boston in 1872, and then moved to Philadelphia, which was a major publishing center in the nation, four years later, in 1876.
Leary's Book Store was located in the heart of the downtown district of Philadelphia at 9 South 9th Street, a short distance from Market Street.. The very large Gimbel's Department Store occupied the corner of 9th and Market, and the relatively tiny Leary's Book Store on 9th Street was separated from it by a small cobble stoned alleyway.
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The A.J. Holman and Company at 1224 Arch Street between N. 12th and N. 13th Streets in the Center City area of Philadelphia was built in 1881 and was designed by the Wilson Brothers, who also designed the nearby Reading Terminal. Andrew J. Holman founded the Bible-publishing business in 1872 and had this building constructed when their original ...