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[[File:Smith_Elder_Waterloo_Place.jpg|thumb|300px|The offices of Smith, Elder, 15 Waterloo Place, London in 1904. ''Courtesy [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smith_Elder_Waterloo_Place.jpg Wikimeida Commons]''.]]
 
 
'''Smith, Elder & Co.''' was a firm of British publishers who were most noted for the works they published in the 19th century.
 
'''Smith, Elder & Co.''' was a firm of British publishers who were most noted for the works they published in the 19th century.
   
 
== History ==
 
== History ==
 
[[File:Smith_Elder_Waterloo_Place.jpg|thumb|300px|The offices of Smith, Elder, 15 Waterloo Place, London in 1904. ''Courtesy [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smith_Elder_Waterloo_Place.jpg Wikimeida Commons]''.]]
 
The firm was founded by [[George Smith (publisher)|George Smith]] (1789-1846) and [[Alexander Elder (publisher)|Alexander Elder]] (1790-1876), and successfully continued by [[George Murray Smith]] (1824-1901). They are known to have published as early as 1839.<ref name = California1839>
 
The firm was founded by [[George Smith (publisher)|George Smith]] (1789-1846) and [[Alexander Elder (publisher)|Alexander Elder]] (1790-1876), and successfully continued by [[George Murray Smith]] (1824-1901). They are known to have published as early as 1839.<ref name = California1839>
 
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Smith, Elder
Status Defunct
Founder George Smith and Alexander Elder
Successor John Murray
Country of origin United Kingdom
Headquarters location London[1][2]
Publication types Books, magazines

Smith, Elder & Co. was a firm of British publishers who were most noted for the works they published in the 19th century.

History

Smith Elder Waterloo Place

The offices of Smith, Elder, 15 Waterloo Place, London in 1904. Courtesy Wikimeida Commons.

The firm was founded by George Smith (1789-1846) and Alexander Elder (1790-1876), and successfully continued by George Murray Smith (1824-1901). They are known to have published as early as 1839.[2]

The firm achieved its first major success with the publication of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre in 1847, under the pseudonym of "Currer Bell."

Other major authors published by the firm included Robert Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, George MacDonald, Charles Reade, John Ruskin, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alfred Tennyson and George Gissing.[3]

They are notable for producing the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB).

In addition, beginning in 1841, they published The London and Edinburgh Magazine. Beginning in 1859, they published Cornhill Magazine.[1]

Works published by Smith, Elder & Co.

  • The Comic Offering volumes one through five by Louisa Henrietta Sheridan, 1831-1835
  • Friendship's Offering, 1837
  • Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa by Andrew Smith, 1838
  • Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, 1838
  • Modern Painters by John Ruskin, 1843
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 1847
  • The History of Henry Esmond by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1852
  • Morocco in Diplomacy by Edmund Dene Morel, 1912
  • Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters, A Family Record by William and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh, 1913

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Business Correspondence of Smith, Elder, and Co., 1850–1908: Finding Aid". Princeton University Library. 2008. http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3r074v012. Retrieved 2012-07-07. "Abstract. Consists, for the most part, of business correspondence of George Smith relating to the Cornhill Magazine, which he founded in 1859, and other publishing business of Smith, Elder, and Co., the London publishing firm." 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Forbes, Alexander (1839). California: A History of Upper and Lower California. Cornhill, London: Smith, Elder and Co. http://books.google.com/books?id=NH4FAAAAQAAJ. 
  3. "George Murray Smith (1824–1901)". oxforddnb.com. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36138. Retrieved 5 October 2010. 

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