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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.
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.
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.
The publisher had its origins in a Philadelphia bookstall opened by Benjamin Warner and Jacob Johnson in 1792. Joshua Ballinger Lippincott assumed control of the firm in 1836. In 1978, the company (then named J. B. Lippincott Company ) was sold to Harper & Row , at which point it began to focus its publishing activities exclusively in health ...
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 ...
Jane Aitken 1764–1832 Printer, publisher, bookbinder, and bookseller in Philadelphia; Sister of Robert Aitken, who continued his business when he died. Printed and bound dozens of books for the Athenaeum of Philadelphia and about 400 volumes for the American Philosophical Society
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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 ...