Thomas Y. Crowell Co. was apublishing company founded byThomas Y. Crowell. The company began as a bookbindery founded by Benjamin Bradley in 1834. Crowell operated the business after Bradley's death in 1862 and eventually purchased the company from Bradley's widow in 1870.[1]
The company began publishing books in 1876, and in 1882 T. Irving Crowell joined his father in the business. Jeremiah Osborne Crowell became the sales manager.
In 1909, after Thomas Y. Crowell died, T. Irving Crowell became the company's president. Then in 1937, after T. Irving Crowell retired, the third generation Robert L. Crowell took over and moved towards publishing trade books and biographies. They were sold toDun & Bradstreet in 1968. Dun & Bradstreet acquiredFunk & Wagnalls in 1971.
Crowell acquired the textbook publisher Intext in 1974, which also owned the trade publishers Abelard-Schuman (itself formed by the merger of the Abelard Press and Henry Schuman Inc.[2]) and theJohn Day Company.[3]
In 1978, the company was sold toHarper & Row, which boughtLippincott and briefly combined the two asLippincott & Crowell in 1979 before consolidating them into Harper & Row in 1980.[4]
TheThomas Y. Crowell Publishers Records are housed in the Syracuse University Library's Special Collections Research Center. The records are composed mainly of correspondence with authors, agents, other publishing firms and interested persons.[5]
Wordsworth's Complete Poetical Works...New York Thomas Y. Crowell Company Publishers (The Complete Poetical works of William Wordsworth with an introduction by John Morley dated 1888)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray ... New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers
