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Hutchinson & Co.
active London, 1887 - 1985
found: British literary publishing houses, 1881-1965: p. 162 (Hutchinson and Company (Publishers) Limited; London, 1887-1985; Century Hutchinson Limited, London 1985-1989; Random Century Limited, London, 1989-; London publishing firm established in 1887 by George Thompson Hutchinson) p. 172 (firm combined with Century Publishing Limited to form Century Hutchinson; Century Hutchinson sold in 1989 to Random House to form Random Century)
Hutchinson began as Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.,[1] an English book publisher, founded in London in 1887 by Sir George Hutchinson and later run by his son, Walter Hutchinson (1887–1950). Hutchinson's published books and magazines such as The Lady's Realm, Adventure-story Magazine, Hutchinson's Magazine and Woman.[2]
In the 1920s, Walter Hutchinson published many of the "spook stories" of E.F. Benson in Hutchinson's Magazine and then in collections in a number of books. The company also first published Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger novels, five novels by mystery writer Harry Stephen Keeler, and short stories by Eden Phillpotts. In 1929, Walter Hutchinson stopped publishing magazines to concentrate on books.[2] In the 1930s, Hutchinson published H.G. Wells's The Bulpington of Blup as well as the first English translations of Vladimir Nabokov's Camera Obscura (translated by Winifred Roy with Nabokov credited as Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin) in 1936 and Despair (translated by Nabokov himself) under its John Long marque of paperbacks.[3] Among notable, non-fiction books, in 1959 Hutchinson & Co. published the first English edition of Karl Popper's most famous work, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, first published as Logik der Forschung in 1934.
The company merged with Century Publishing in 1985 to form Century Hutchinson, and was folded into the British Random House Group in 1989, where it remains as an imprint of Cornerstone Publishing[4], a publishing house of Penguin Random House UK[5]. Among the books published before the merge in 1985 was Una Lucy Silberrad's first novel, The Enchanter. wikipedia accessed 10/19/2017
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