Charles Scribner’s Sons

Scribners (1846-1984) was a New York City publisher. Aspects of their publishing functions were: soliciting and acquiring books, editing manuscripts, printing and manufacturing books, advertising and publicizing publications. Their business concerns were: book and magazine publisher, retail bookstore, subscription books department, educational books department, printing press and bindery, rare books department. The firm's former permutations: Baker & Scribner, Charles Scribner & Co., Scribner, Armstrong & Co., Scribner, Armstrong & Welford, Scribner & Co., Charles Scribner's Sons. The bulk of their publishing (1880s-1970s), dates from the period when the publisher bore its most familiar name, "Charles Scribner's Sons."

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