E. P. Dutton & Co.

Edward P. Dutton (1831-1923) grew up in the Boston area. His father was a senior member of Dutton, Richardson & Co., a large wholesale dry goods store. Edward left his studies at the Boston Latin School and worked in the shipping department of his father's store for several years. Because of health issues, at the age of eighteen he, along with several friends, traveled to Europe. When he returned in 1852 he entered a book partnership with Lemuel N. Ide (1825-1902).

Shortly before Ide joined forces with Dutton he had purchased the school-book and map publishing business of William B. Towle. Initially Ide & Dutton was a school-book, map and educational book publisher. Early on it bought out the business of Charles Stimson who had dominated New England in the area of Episcopal book publishing and selling.

Lemuel N. Ide

In 1858 Lemuel N. Ide sold out his interest in the firm to Dutton in 1857. After selling out to Dutton he moved back to his native Claremont, New Hampshire. Of note is that Lemuel's father was the founder of the Claremont Manufacturing Company. Ide's father in 1847 published the American Booksellers' Complete Reference Trade List. This was the first attempt to put into one volume the trade lists of all the American publishers. In the 1890's Ide moved back to Boston and for a number of years worked with the Church Department at the Old Corner Bookstore.

In 1864 Charles A. Clapp (1835-1901), previously with Crosby & Nichols and Ticknor & Fields, was admitted to the firm as a junior partner. The business flourished with the company buying some of the stock and plates of Stanford and Swords and also Daniel Dana's inventory. In 1868 the Dutton firm purchased the entire stock of the General Protestant Episcopal Sunday-School Union and Church Book Society. In 1869, after operating a branch office in New York beginning in 1864, the firm in its entirety moved to New York.

In the 1880's Dutton published many of the works of the English publisher Griffith and Farran and its successors. Generally, the cover format was different depending on whether Dutton was the primary publisher or whether Griffith was the primary publisher with Dutton as the secondary co-publisher.

Dutton Addresses:
106 Washington Street 1853-1864 (Ide & Dutton 1853-1857)
135 Washington/ 762 Broadway 1869
713 Broadway 1869-1883
39 West 23rd Street 1883- June, 1885
31 West 23rd Street July, 1885-1899

E. P. Dutton & Co. juvenile series books.
Dutton published quite a number of books in series for juveniles. In addition, however, numerous non series books which are not included in this bibliography were also printed. In addition, many Dutton books were listed by the price that they were sold for. I have not included those lists.

Only book formats of editions that Dutton was the primary publisher are shown. Many series were initially published by an English firm with Dutton as a copublisher. These latter volumes are not shown here.

As with many 19th century publishers, most often there is nothing on or in the book that states a series name. In these instances the series was sold as a boxed set and the box noted the series name.Thus there are many times when I am not certain of the series format. Hopefully series' formats can be updated in the future.