From a Philadelphia bookstall opened by Benjamin Warner and Jacob Johnson during the presidency of George Washington in 1792,  a small book publisher grew to be one of the largest publishers in the English-speaking world within 60 years.  After nearly 200 years of independent operation,  J.B. Lippincott was sold to Harper & Row in 1978 and then to Wolters Kluwer in 1990.   Under the ownership of Wolters Kluwer,  J.B. Lippincott merged with Raven Publishers, and then with Williams & Wilkins, to form Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in 1998.

The 1877 Chatterbox appears to be the earliest Chatterbox produced legally in the United States, and the only version by Lippincott (I think).   More information would be appreciated

1877  “Lippincott”  Chatterbox     (privately bound)