Publisher:Charles Scribner's Sons

Variant Names

• Charles Scribner's Sons
  • 1917^[1] (Verified)

Other early corporate names identified by the Library of Congress (second link at VIAF.org)

[1] Charles Scribner and Company [2], to 1871

[3] Scribner, Armstrong, and Company [4], LCCN (1871 1878)

Primarily book importation?

[5] Scribner, Welford, and Co. [6], (" ") 1857 to 1872 at WorldCat

[7] Scribner, Welford & Armstrong [8], to 1878

[9] Scribner & Welford [10], (1878 to 1891)

Then probably OCLC: 10748107 Laboulaye, Abdallah; or, The four-leaved shamrock (Scribner, Wilford & Co., 1869) [sic], is printed in the UK --see P576897, 1868, matching page-count.

In the database see also Scribner & Welford & John C. Nimmo, one 1885 publication.

Variant Locations

• New York
  • 1917^[1] (Verified)

Dating early Scribner's publications

Prior to 1929 the title page has the printing date. From 1929 to 1975 there's a code that looks like "H-6.59[V]" on the copyright page.

• The first letter is the printing with A being the 1st, B is the second, C the third, etc. After the 26th printing (Z) they use a two letter code. Unfortunately, these are rare and so the pattern has not been decoded. An example of this would be "-BB-8.72(V)" on a copy of Manassas to Malvern Hill by Douglas Southall Freeman.
• Following this is the publication date with the month, a period, and then a two digit year. Note that unlike the Doubleday gutter code this is a publication and not a printing or manufacturing date meaning it can be used as it. There have been publications that only state the year.
• The letter at the end has not been decoded yet. Known codes are [AJ], [C], [col], [H], [J], [MC], [RJ], and [V]. (For a while I thought [V] was for the juvenile science fiction series but that's not the case. Marc Kupper)

Scribner's started using number lines in 1973 but the dust jacket often has the date.

Verification Sources

1. ^  Google Books, Internet Archive