Fitzroy Dearborn was an American publisher of academic library reference titles with offices in London and Chicago. It was acquired by Taylor & Francis as an imprint of Routledge Reference in 2002, before Taylor & Francis merged with Informa.

At the time of its sale, the company had a backlist of 350 titles.

History

Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers was founded in 1994 by Daniel Kirkpatrick and George Walsh. The company was a publisher of academic library reference titles with offices in London and Chicago. It was acquired by the UK-based Taylor & Francis Group as an imprint of Routledge Reference in 2002.^[1] Taylor & Francis itself subsequently merged with Informa.^[2]

At the time of its sale, the company had a backlist of 350 titles, many of them award-winning.

Name

The name of the company was derived from the districts of London and Chicago in which its offices were located, Fitzrovia and Dearborn respectively.

Titles

Fitzroy Dearborn's titles included:

• Dictionary of Artists' Models. ISBN 1-57958-233-8
• Dictionary of Women Artists. ISBN 1-884964-21-4
• Encyclopedia of African History
• Encyclopedia of AIDS. ISBN 1-57958-007-6
• Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography. ISBN 1-57958-009-2
• Encyclopedia of the Essay. ISBN 1-884964-30-3
• Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition. ISBN 1-57958-141-2
• Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. ISBN 1-884964-33-8
• Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. ISBN 1-884964-98-2
• Encyclopedia of Interior Design. ISBN 1-884964-19-2
• Encyclopedia of Life Writing. ISBN 1-57958-232-X
• Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English. ISBN 1-884964-36-2
• Encyclopedia of Mexico. ISBN 1-884964-31-1
• Encyclopedia of Monasticism. ISBN 1-57958-090-4
• Encyclopedia of the Novel. ISBN 1-57958-015-7
• Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. ISBN 1-57958-208-7
• Encyclopedia of Sculpture. ISBN 1-57958-248-6
• Encyclopedia of Television. ISBN 1-884964-26-5
• International Book Publishing An Encyclopedia. ISBN 1-884964-16-8
• Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. ISBN 1-57958-313-X
• Reader's Guide to American History. ISBN 1-884964-22-2
• Reader's Guide to the History of Science. ISBN 1-884964-29-X
• Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies ISBN 1-57958-142-0
• Reader's Guide to Literature in English. ISBN 1-884964-20-6
• Reader's Guide to Military History. ISBN 1-57958-241-9
• Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. ISBN 1-57958-091-2
• Reference Guide to Russian Literature. ISBN 1-884964-10-9