D. Appleton & Company

1813 Relocated from Haverhill to and imported books from England

Boston

1825 Relocated New York City and entered the book business with brother-in-law ^[1]

Jonathan Leavitt

1831 Published first book: Crumbs from the Master's Table by William Mason (1719–1791)

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1848 Daniel Appleton retired; son (1814–1899) formed a partnership with his brothers, John Adams Appleton (1817–1881), George Swett Appleton (1821–1878), Daniel Sidney Appleton (1824–1890) and Samuel Francis Appleton (1826–1883)

William Henry Appleton

1849 Death of Daniel Appleton

1857 First New York trade publisher to engage in

subscription publishing

1869 started

Appleton's Journal

1872 magazine and International Scientific Series started by editor Edward L. Youmans^[4]

Popular Science Monthly

1875 Original publication of the memoirs of General , one of the first such publications by a Civil War general

William Tecumseh Sherman

1881 Relocated from Leonard Street and Broadway, to Bond Street, New York City; Journal becomes

Appleton's Magazine

1890 Co-founded , a conglomerate including D. Appleton & Company

American Book Company

1894 Published Songs of the Soil by

Frank Lebby Stanton

1900 Filed for bankruptcy and sold ; re-organized by Joseph H. Sears of Harper's

Popular Science

1905 Appleton's Magazine renamed Appleton's Booklovers Magazine

1919 named president

J. W. Hiltman

1924 Purchased Stewart and Kidd, founded in 1914

1931 Published I Sailed with Chinese Pirates by Aleko E. Lilius

1933 Merged with , founded in 1881, to form the Appleton-Century Company

The Century Company

1945 Sold hymn books department to

Revell Publishing

1948 Merged with ., founded in 1924, to form Appleton-Century-Crofts.

F. S. Crofts Co

Taylor, Fitch Waterman (1840). Vol. 2 of The Flag Ship, Or: A Voyage Around the World, in the United States Frigate Columbia, Attended by Her Consort the Sloop of War John Adams, and Bearing the Broad Pennant of Commodore George C. Read, Fitch Waterman Taylor. D. Appleton and Company. Retrieved April 24, 2014.

The Flag-ship: Or, A Voyage Around the World in the United States Frigate Columbia...

by Stephen Crane, 1895

The Red Badge of Courage

by Joel Chandler Harris, 1880

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings

by Lewis Carroll, 1865, first U.S. edition

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Appletons' Cyclopædia of Biography in 1 volume, 1856, edited by , added American biographies to the volume edited by Elihu Rich and published in 1854 by Richard Griffin & Company (London).

Francis L. Hawks

in 6 volumes, 1887, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske

Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography

, 1847

Appleton's Railroad and Steamboat Guide

in 16 volumes, edited by George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana, 1857–1863; revised and enlarged as American Cyclopedia (1873–1876)

New American Cyclopedia

1880

Progress and Poverty

for the years 1861–1901, annual

Annual Cyclopedia

1893, in 8 volumes edited by Charles Kendall Adams. The rights were acquired from Alvin J. Johnson & Co.

Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia

1900, in 12 volumes derived from Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia. Edited by Charles Kendall Adams, and from 1902 by Rossiter Johnson, with title Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas

Universal Cyclopaedia

, 1889–1891, New Century Dictionary 1927–c. 1963

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

by William Cullen Bryant, 1872

Picturesque America

Unabridged English Dictionary 1859

works of , 1834 (1703–1758)

Jonathan Edwards

science works of (1809–1882)

Charles Darwin

Diseases of the Heart and Arterial System, by Dr. Robert Hall Babcock (1903)

Diseases of the Lungs by Dr. Robert Hall Babcock (1907)

Memoirs of (1820–1891)

William Tecumseh Sherman

The Works of Rudyard Kipling [Authorized Editions] 15 Volumes (1899)

literary works of (1843–1916)

Henry James

art works of (1862–1937)

Edith Wharton

architectural works of (d. 1906)

Stanford White

Gems of British Art, 1857

work of , 1880

Thomas Henry Huxley

From the Manger to the Throne 1880—1889 by REV. T. DeWitt Talmage, D.D.

American Negro Slavery by , 1918

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

by Jefferson Davis

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

by John Jacob Astor

A Journey in Other Worlds

Appletons' bookshop, 346 & 348 Broadway, New York, 1856

Appletons' Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, 1867

Display of D. Appleton & Co. stereoscopic views and implements, 1870s

Robbins & Appleton Building, New York, built 1880 (photo 2010)

Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography

American Cyclopædia

Appleton's Magazine

Appletons' travel guides

Appleton-Century MSS

NYPL. of William H. Appleton, Daniel Appleton, founder, John A. Appleton, George Appleton, Daniel Sidney Appleton.

Portraits

Library of Congress. . Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+Columns. Printer's mark of D. Appleton and Co. in North Corridor. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.

Photo, 2007

. Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. This has information on the firm's evolution.

"Appleton, Daniel" 

Open Library.

D. Appleton and Company

Finding aid to D. Appleton and Co. Correspondence at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.