Lee & Shepard
Lee & Shepard (1862-1905) was a publishing and bookselling firm in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century, established by William Lee (1826–1906) and Charles Augustus Billings Shepard (1829–1889) Authors published by the firm included: George Melville Baker; Sophie May; Henry Morgan; Oliver Optic; William Carey Richards; Francis Henry Underwood; Madeline Leslie and Levina Buoncuore Urbino. The business conducted its operations from offices at 149 Washington St. (ca.1872); the corner of Franklin and Hawley Street (1873–1885); and "adjoining the Old South," no.
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Lee & Shepard

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- 1862
- Founder
- Charles Augustus Billings Shepard · William Lee
- Headquarters
- Boston
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- William Morrow
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Lee & Shepard (1862-1905) was a publishing and bookselling firm in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century, established by William Lee (1826–1906) and Charles Augustus Billings Shepard (1829–1889) Authors published by the firm included: George Melville Baker; Sophie May; Henry Morgan; Oliver Optic; William Carey Richards; Francis Henry Underwood; Madeline Leslie and Levina Buoncuore Urbino. The business conducted its operations from offices at 149 Washington St. (ca.1872); the corner of Franklin and Hawley Street (1873–1885); and "adjoining the Old South," no.
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• Illustration — Illustration from: Charles R. Baker's Practical and scientific fruit culture (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1866) • Illustration — "Larry is saved." From: Our Boys and Girls Monthly, 1872 • Illustration — Display booth of Lee & Shepard at the exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, held in Mechanics Hall, on Huntington Avenue, Boston, 1881 • Illustration — From: Eleanor Talbot's My Lady's Casket (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1885) • Illustration — From: Eleanor Talbot's My Lady's Casket (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1885)
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10 Milk Street (ca.1885). One of the first titles issued by the firm was the diary of Adam Gurowski, reviewed in 1862 by the New York Evening Post: "This work is a crabbed specimen of authorship.. The humor of it is sometimes that of Thersites, when his thorny tongue lashed the heroes of the camp, and sometimes that of Caliban when he cursed the arts of his superiors.. Yet it is a book to be carefully read. Under its rough and prickly burr there is a nutritive nut." In 1905 Lee & Shepard merged with the Lothrop Company to form Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard was eventually acquired by William Morrow and Company, which would be acquired by HarperCollins in 1999. Lothrop shut down its children's division soon after the acquisition. Lothrop is now an Imprint of HarperCollins.
It is associated with United States. The record gives 1862 as its date of establishment or first appearance. It forms part of William Morrow. Its recorded founders are Charles Augustus Billings Shepard and William Lee. Its recorded seat is Boston.
• Adam Gurowski. Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862. 1862. • My teacher's gem. 1863. Engraving by Kilburn. • Charles R. Baker (of the Dorchester Nurseries). Practical and scientific fruit culture. 1866. (Some of the illustrations were derived from the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1847) • Sophie May. Cousin Grace. 1866. Engraving by N. Brown. • Henry Morgan. Ned Nevins: the news boy, or, Street life in Boston. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1867. • John Townsend Trowbridge. Neighbor's wives. 1867 • John Frost. Life of Daniel Webster: the statesman and the patriot. 1868. • Oliver Optic. Our standard-bearer: or, the life of General Ulysses S. Grant. 1868. Illus. by Thomas Nast. • John Bunyon. Pilgrim's Progress (1871) • Our Boys and Girls. v.11-12 (1872). • Adeline Trafton. An American Girl Abroad (1872) • Eleanor W. Talbot. My lady's casket of jewels and flowers for her adorning. 1885. Includes color plates. • Oliver Optic's Magazine. v.17-18 (1875). • Irene E. Jerome. One Year's Sketch Book. 1885. • Harriet Stewart Miner. Orchids: the Royal Family of Plants. 1885 • Irving Bacheller (1900) Eben Holden, A Tale of the North Country (a Lothrop book) • John Townsend Trowbridge. The Little Master. 1887 • Oliver Optic. Poor and Proud (1872) • Madame Eugénie Foa. The Boy Life of Napoleon: Afterwards Emperor of the French (1895). • Laurence Gronlund. The Co-operative Commonwealth: An Exposition of Socialism (1900) • Edith Thacher Hurd, illustrated by Clement Hurd. Engine Engine No. 9 (1940) • Mrs. Partington's Mother Goose's Melodies, Edited by Uncle Willis (1889).
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- 1.Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society: 1880-1889
- 2.Shepard had a previous publishing and bookselling firm in the 1850s: Shepard, Clark & Co.; cf. Boston Directory. 1856
- 3."Charles A.B. Shepard." Publishers Weekly, February 2, 1889; p.98-99
- 4.WorldCat. Baker, George Melville 1832-1890
- 5.WorldCat. Richards, William C. (William Carey) 1818-1892
- 6.WorldCat. Underwood, Francis Henry 1825-1894
- 7.WorldCat. Madeline Leslie. www.worldcat.org.
- 8.Austin. 1885
- 9.Quoted in: The Living Age, No. 971, January 10, 1863
- 10.Boston notes: The Consolidation of Lothrop Company and Lee & Shepard. New York Times, September 3, 1904.
- 11.News Corporation Announces Plans to Acquire William Morrow & Company and Avon Books from the Hearst Corporation - News Corporation Announces Plans to Acquire William Morrow & Company and Avon Books from the Hearst Corporation | Hearst.
- 12.HarperCollins, Morrow Merge Children's Divisions.
- 13.Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books - Publisher Contact Information Retrieved January 17, 2013.
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