Pickering & Chatto is animprint ofRoutledge which publishes in thehumanities andsocial sciences, specializing in monographs, critical editions (works, diaries, correspondence) and thematic source collections.[1] Pickering & Chatto's academic monographs have an international reputation and its critical editions and source collections are critically acclaimed.[2][3][4][5] Pickering & Chatto is regarded as "the pre-eminent publisher of critical editions in the humanities and social sciences".[6][7]
The origins of the company can be traced back toWilliam Pickering (1796–1854), who set up as anantiquarian bookseller and publisher in 1820. After his death, the business was carried on by his son, Basil Montagu Pickering.[8] On his death, in 1878, it was purchased byAndrew Chatto (1840–1913), one of the founding partners ofChatto and Windus.[9][10] By the early twentieth century Pickering & Chatto was solely concerned with antiquarian book selling.[11][12]
LordWilliam Rees-Mogg bought Pickering & Chatto in 1981.[13][14] In 1983 he re-established Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited as an independent publishing house, serving as chairman and proprietor.[15][16] In 1993 the antiquarian bookselling business became an entirely separate enterprise and there is now no connection between the two companies.[17]
