{{Short description|American publishing company}} {{Infobox publisher | image = 250px | parent = | founded = 1881 | defunct = 1933 | founder = | successor = Appleton-Century | country = United States | headquarters = New York, New York | distribution = | keypeople = | publications = | topics = | genre = | imprints = | revenue = | numemployees = | nasdaq = | url = }} '''The Century Company''' was an American publishing company, founded in 1881.
==History== It began as a subsidiary of Charles Scribner's Sons in 1870, named Scribner and Company,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lawrence |first=Lindsy |date=2024-04-02 |title="An Honest Bargain?": Transatlantic Marriage, Domestic Violence, and Garden Restoration in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Shuttle (1906) |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09699082.2024.2325821 |journal=Women's Writing |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=233–253 |doi=10.1080/09699082.2024.2325821 |issn=0969-9082|url-access=subscription }}</ref>{{Sfn|John|1981|p=ix}} but was bought by Roswell Smith in 1881 and renamed by him after the Century Association. The magazine that the company had published up to that time, ''Scribner's Monthly'', was renamed the ''Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine''.{{Sfn|John|1981|p=108}}
The Century Company was also the publisher of St. Nicholas Magazine from the time of its founding.{{Sfn|John|1981|p=97}}
William Morgan Schuster became president of the Century Company of New York City in 1915. In 1933, the Century Company merged with publisher D. Appleton & Company to form Appleton-Century Company, and later merged with F.S. Crofts & Co. to form Appleton-Century-Crofts in 1947.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Gelder |first=Lawrence Van |date=November 11, 1973 |title=MAIN OPERATIONS OF APPLETON SOLD |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/11/archives/main-operations-of-appleton-sold-prenticehall-pays-5million300-jobs.html |access-date=2025-02-09 |work=The New York Times |page=72 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |id={{ProQuest|119779118}}}}</ref> Schuster remained president throughout the mergers,<ref name="1960Obit">{{cite news |date=May 27, 1960 |title=W. Morgan Shuster Dead at 83; Led Appleton-Century-Crofts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/05/27/archives/w-morgan-shuster-dead-at-83-led-appletoncenturycrofts.html |access-date=17 October 2024 |work=The New York Times |pages=31 |id={{ProQuest|114968956}}}}</ref> until his retirement in 1952.
Meredith Corporation bought Appleton-Century-Crofts in 1960, and sold its textbook division to Prentice Hall in 1973.<ref name=":0" />
==Imprints== * Century Vagabond Books
==See also== * ''Century Dictionary'' * Century type family * Duell, Sloan and Pearce * Meredith Publishing Company * Theodore Low De Vinne
== Notes == {{reflist}} ==References== * {{Cite book |last=John |first=Arthur |url=https://archive.org/details/bestyearsofcentu0000john/ |title=The Best Years of the Century: Richard Watson Gilder, ''Scribner's Monthly'', and the ''Century Magazine'', 1870-1909 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=1981 |isbn=0-252-00857-X}}
== External links == {{Wikisource publisher|Century Co.}} * [http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/nypl/msscentu/@Generic__BookTextView/228;pt=132 History of the Century Company at New York Public Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172300/http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/nypl/msscentu/@Generic__BookTextView/228;pt=132 |date=2016-03-03 }} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Century Company}} Category:Publishing companies established in 1881 Category:Defunct book publishing companies of the United States Category:1881 establishments in New York (state)
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