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CHATTERBOX

Publishing History

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UK Publishing History

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Canadian Publishing History

US Pirates

 

The publishers of Chatterbox took advantage of their own fame and published a number of spin-offs such as the Christmasbox (given free with the weekly paper each December), and Newsbox – first seen in 1916.   As you look through the publishers (see index on left) you’ll notice many publications which clearly took advantage of the Chatterbox name.

 

There is, of course, a long list of “pirates” who published books with “Chatterbox” in the title in the United States in the 1880’s. American copyright law was more or less established thanks to a number of well-publicised legal actions by Estes & Lauriat against Frank Leslie, Belford Clarke and R. Worthington in particular.

 

UK Publishing History

Year

Publisher

Printer

1 Dec 186629 Jun 1870

William Macintosh
24 Paternoster Row
London

Strangeways & Walden
Castle Street

Leicester Square
London

6 Jul 1870 – c.1886

W. Wells Gardner
10 Paternoster Row
London

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c. 1886 – c. 1928

Wells Gardner, Darton & Co
2 Paternoster Buildings
London

Strangeways & Sons
Tower Street

Upper St Martin’s Lane
(later Cambridge Circus, WC)

c. 1929 – c. 1935

Proprietors:

The Chatterbox Company, Ltd
5 Ludgate Square
London, EC4

Simpkin Marshal, Ltd
4 Stationers Hall Court
London, EC4

Stephen Austin & Sons, Ltd
Hertford

c.1936 – c.1954

Dean & Sons

 

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US Publishing History

Year

Publisher

Printer

1870-1871

Pott  & Amery, New York

 

1872

Pott , Young & Co
Cooper Union
Fourth Avenue
New York

 

1873

The Willmer & Rogers News Company
New York

 

1874-1876

The American News Company

 

1877

R. Worthington,  New York

 

1878

Thomas Nelson & Sons
New York

 

1879 – 1897

Estes & Lauriat
301 Washington Street
Boston

 

1898 – c.1914

Dana Estes & Co
212 Summer Street
Boston

Colonial Press:
C.H.Simonds & Co
Boston

1914 – c.1928

The Page Company
(L C Page & Company)
53 Beacon Street
Boston

 

c.1929 – c.1933

Cupples & Leon
New York

 

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Canadian Publishing History

Year

Publisher

Printer

1929-1932

Ryerson

 

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US Pirates

Year

Publisher

1876

World Publishing Company

1877-1885

Frank Leslie’s Publishing House, New York

1880

Sharps

1880-1882

John Lovell

1880-1889

R. Worthington, New York

1881

Hurst & Co

1882

The American News Company

1883-1886

Belford Clarke

1883-1913

M.A. Donahue

1884

John E. Potter Co., Philadelphia

1884

D. Appleton

1889-1890

Brainard

1935

Whitman

 

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