Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers

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Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
StatusDefunct
Founded1994
FounderDaniel Kirkpatrick and George Walsh
Successor Routledge
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location Chicago
Publication typesBooks
Nonfiction topicsReference

Fitzroy Dearborn was an American publisher of academic library reference titles with offices in London and Chicago. It was acquired by Taylor & Francis as an imprint of Routledge Reference in 2002, before Taylor & Francis merged with Informa.

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At the time of its sale, the company had a backlist of 350 titles.

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. [2]

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:

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References

  1. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers acquired by T&F Archived 2012-02-29 at the Wayback Machine , The Bookseller, 9 September 2002
  2. Newswires, Kay Larsen Dow Jones (2 March 2004). "Informa and T&F Agree to Stock Merger In $1.06 Million Deal". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 19 March 2021.