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)[1] [2] [3] Authors published by the firm included: George Melville Baker ;[4] Sophie May ; Henry Morgan ; Oliver Optic ; William Carey Richards ;[5] Francis Henry Underwood ;[6] Madeline Leslie [7] 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. 10 Milk Street (ca.1885).[8]
William Lee
Charles A.B. Shepard
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."[9]
In 1905 Lee & Shepard merged with the Lothrop Company to form Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. [10]
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard was eventually acquired by William Morrow and Company , which would be acquired by HarperCollins in 1999.[11] Lothrop shut down its children's division soon after the acquisition.[12] Lothrop is now an Imprint of Harpercollins .[13]
Published by the firm
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[10] (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)
Illustration from: Charles R. Baker's Practical and scientific fruit culture (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1866)
"Larry is saved." From: Our Boys and Girls Monthly, 1872
Display booth of Lee & Shepard at the exhibition of the
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association , held in
Mechanics Hall , on
Huntington Avenue , Boston, 1881
From: Eleanor Talbot's My Lady's Casket (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1885)
From: Eleanor Talbot's My Lady's Casket (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1885)
Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society: 1880-1889
Shepard had a previous publishing and bookselling firm in the 1850s: Shepard, Clark & Co.; cf. Boston Directory. 1856
"Charles A.B. Shepard." Publishers Weekly, February 2, 1889; p.98-99
Quoted in: The Living Age , No. 971, January 10, 1863
Boston notes: The Consolidation of Lothrop Company and Lee & Shepard. New York Times, September 3, 1904.