Thomas Y. Crowell
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Thomas Y. Crowell (1836-1915) was a native of Massachusetts. In 1856
after several years as a sailor, he joined the Boston bookbindery firm
of Benjamin Bradley. Bradley died in 1862 and Crowell ran the company
for the estate for three years before becoming a partner with
Bradley’s wife in 1865. After five years, Crowell took over the Boston
business renaming it, Thomas Y. Crowell, Successor to Benjamin
Bradley.
In 1875 Crowell purchased the plates, bound books and sheet stock of
Warren & Wyman, a New York publishing firm. In 1876 the New York
firm of Thomas Y. Crowell was established. William W. Wyman was the
general manager. Crowell’s first juvenile series were reprints of the
Warren & Wyman series. Thereafter Crowell’s firm continued to
grow.
The firm's names and dates:
Thomas Y. Crowell 1876-1880
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1881-1910
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1911-
The firm's title page addresses:
1876-1880 744 Broadway
1881-1890 13 Astor Place
1890-1892 46 East Fourteenth Street
1892-1899 46 East 14th Street/100 Purchase Street
(Some books in the 1890’s did not have an address but this was the
exception.)
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Between 1876 and 1900 the Crowell firm published a number of juvenile series.