E. P. Dutton
Boston, Massachusetts (1852 ) | |
Founder | Edward Payson Dutton |
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Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | New York City |
Publication types | Books |
Official website | penguin |
E. P. Dutton was an American
Creator
Edward Payson Dutton (January 4, 1831 – 1923) was a prominent American book publisher.
In 1852, Dutton founded the E. P. Dutton bookselling company in
Edward Dutton died in 1923, aged 92, but his company continued to flourish and today is an imprint of the Penguin Group.
History
Dutton expanded to New York City in 1864, where it began publishing religious books. In 1906, Dutton made a deal with English publishing company J. M. Dent to be the American distributor of the Everyman's Library series of classic literature reprints.
John Macrae joined the company in 1885 as an office boy, and in 1923 was named president. In 1928, the publishing and retail divisions were split into two separate businesses with Macrae acquiring the publishing side, operating as E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc.
It published children's books under the Unicorn imprint, with some books published in the 1990s. Dutton Children's Books continues today.
In 1975, Dutton was acquired by the Dutch publisher Elsevier.[2] The following year, Dutton bought Hawthorn Books from W. H. Allen & Co.[3] Dutton lost money under Dutch ownership, and the company was sold to the buyout firm Dyson-Kissner-Moran in 1981. The paperback publisher New American Library acquired Dutton in 1985.[4]
New American Library was acquired by Penguin Group in 1986, and split into two imprints: Dutton and Dutton Children's Books.[5] Dutton is now a boutique imprint within Penguin Group, publishing approximately 40 books for adults per year, half of them fiction and half non-fiction. After the acquisition by Penguin, books to which Penguin acquired the rights as part of the acquisition of Dutton were published in paperback under the imprint Puffin Unicorn (because Puffin has been the longtime paperback imprint for the Penguin Group). Penguin merged with Random House to form Penguin Random House in 2013.
In 2017, sister imprint Blue Rider Press was closed and its books were moved to Dutton.[6]
Book series
- Dutton Paperbacks[7]
- Everyman's Library[8]
- Sunrise Book[9]
- Unicorn Books[10]
- Dutton Obelisk[11]
- Studio Vista/Dutton Pictureback[12][13]
References
- ^ "E. P. Dutton Marks its 100th Birthday; Book Concern Starts Second Century Today by Publishing Literary History Volume". The New York Times. January 4, 1952.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
- ISBN 9780835204897. Retrieved December 22, 2019.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
- ^ McDowell, Edwin (October 1986). "PENGUIN AGREES TO BUY NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY". The New York Times. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
- ^ PRH Closing the Blue Rider Imprint
- ^ Dutton Paperbacks (E. P. Dutton) – Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
- ^ Collecting Everyman's Library (1906–78), everymanslibrarycollecting.com. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
- ^ "Sunrise Book" + Dutton, worldcat.org. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
- ^ Unicorn Books (E. P. Dutton) – Book Series List, publishing history.com. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
- ^ Studio Vista | Dutton Picturebacks – Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
- ^ Modern Sculpture (Studio Vista / Dutton Pictureback) by Alan Bowness, goodreads.com. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
Further reading
- Henry C. Smith, Seventy-Five Years, or the Joys and Sorrows of Publishing and Selling Books at Duttons, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1927.