British book publisher
Chatto & Windus is an
imprint of
Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by
John Camden Hotten . Following Hotten's death, the firm would reorganize under the names of his business partner
Andrew Chatto and poet
William Edward Windus . The company was purchased by
Random House in 1987 and is now a sub-imprint of
Vintage Books within the
Penguin UK division.
History
The firm developed out of the publishing business of
John Camden Hotten , founded in 1855. After his death in 1873, it was sold to Hotten's junior partner
Andrew Chatto (1841–1913), who took on the poet
William Edward Windus (1827–1910), son of the patron of J. M. W. Turner, Benjamin Godfrey Windus (1790–1867), as partner. Chatto & Windus published
Mark Twain ,
W. S. Gilbert ,
Wilkie Collins ,
H. G. Wells ,
Wyndham Lewis ,
Richard Aldington ,
Frederick Rolfe (as Fr. Rolfe),
Aldous Huxley ,
Samuel Beckett , the "unfinished" novel
Weir of Hermiston (1896) by
Robert Louis Stevenson , and the first translation into English of
Marcel Proust 's novel
À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past ,
C. K. Scott-Moncrieff , 1922), among others.
In 1946, the company took over the running of the
Hogarth Press , founded in 1917 by
Leonard and
Virginia Woolf . Active as an independent publishing house until 1969, when it merged with
Jonathan Cape ,
[1] it published broadly in the field of literature, including novels and poetry. It is not connected, except in the loosest historical fashion, with
Pickering & Chatto Publishers .
Chatto & Windus became a
limited company in 1953.
[2]
Norah Smallwood was appointed to the board, and later succeeded Ian Parsons as chairman and
managing director in 1975, serving until her retirement in 1982.
Chatto, along with Jonathan Cape and
Virago Press were purchased by
Penguin Random House in 1987.
[3] As of 2019, Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Vintage Publishing UK.
[4]
Book series
Ancient Culture and Society
The BBC Reith Lectures
Books for Today
[5]
Brief Lives (also published by
Nan A. Talese /Doubleday in United States as
Ackroyd 's Brief Lives)
Britain in the World Today (also published by
Johns Hopkins Press , Baltimore)
Central African Archives: Oppenheimer Series
The Centaur Library
[6]
Chatto & Windus Paperbacks
Chatto and Windus's Colonial Library
[7]
Chatto & Windus' Sixpenny Novels
Chatto Anthologies (sometimes referred to as "Chatto Book of" series)
Chatto Counterblasts
Chatto Curiosities of the British Street
[8]
Chatto Nature Guides
Chatto Pocket Library
Chatto Poetry
Chatto Poets for the Young
[9]
Children's Life in Other Lands Series
Collected Works: Aldous Huxley
Columbus Centre Series (for Sussex University Press) (joint publisher:
Heinemann Educational )
[10]
The Complete Works of Bret Harte
Compact Poets
Dawn of History Series
The Dolphin Books
[11]
The Golden Library
[12]
Gotham Library
The Great Songwriters
Immortals of Science
[13] (this series originally published by
Franklin Watts, Inc. , New York)
The Key of the Kingdom
The Khaki Library
[14]
The King's Classics
[15]
The Landmark Library
[16]
Life and Art in Photograph
[17] (republished in the United States by
Oxford University Press , New York)
London Limited Editions
Mathematics for Science and Technology
The Mayfair Library
The Medieval Library
Modern Science: Physics and Chemistry
Modular Textbooks in Engineering
My Life And Times: Compton Mackenzie
National Benzole Books
The New Medieval Library
[18]
The New Phoenix Library
[19]
New Piccadilly Library
Pelham Library
Phoenix Anthologies Series
The Phoenix Library
[20]
[21] (revived in 1950 as The New Phoenix Library)
[22]
Phoenix Library of Food and Drink
[23]
The Phoenix Living Poets
[24]
Phoenix Novels
Piccadilly Library Series
Play Ideas Series (AKA Play Ideas and Things-to-do Series)
The Queen's Classics
The Reform Series
Richmond Lectures
The Robins Series
Royal Road Readers
The Shakespeare Library, comprising the series (1) The Old-Spelling Shakespeare; (2) The Shakespeare Classics; (3) The Lamb Shakespeare for the Young; and (4) Shakespeare's England
[25]
St Antony's Papers
St Martin's Library
[26]
The Stage Poet
Studies in English History
Studies in International Security (for the
International Institute for Strategic Studies )
Use of English Pamphlets
The Vampire Chronicles
The Vanguard Library
Young Learner Books
Zodiac Books
[27] (reissue of The Zodiac Press series)
References
^
"Chatto & Windus Ltd. Archive" .
University of Reading . Retrieved 5 April 2021 .
^
"Chatto and Windus Limited – overview" .
Companies House . Retrieved 5 April 2021 .
^
"Chatto & Windus ¦ Making Britain" .
Open University . Retrieved 5 April 2021 .
^
"VINTAGE: Chatto & Windus" .
Penguin Books . Retrieved 5 April 2021 .
^
"Books for Today" + Chatto , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
^
se:The Centaur Library , worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
^
Chatto & Windus , arthur-conan-doyle.com. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
^
Chatto Curiosities of the British Street (Chatto & Windus) - Book Series List , publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
^
se:Chatto poets for the young , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
^
se:Columbus Centre series , worldcat.org. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
^ Krygier, John.
"Dolphin Books" .
Ohio Wesleyan University . A Series of Series: 20th-Century Publishers Book Series. Retrieved 5 July 2020 .
^ Krygier, John.
"Golden Library" .
Ohio Wesleyan University . A Series of Series: 20th-Century Publishers Book Series. Retrieved 5 July 2020 .
^
"Immortals of science" + Chatto , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
^
se:The Khaki Library , worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
^
"The King's Classics" + Chatto , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
^ Krygier, John.
"Landmark Library" .
Ohio Wesleyan University . A Series of Series: 20th-Century Publishers Book Series. Retrieved 5 July 2020 .
^
se:Life in art and photograph , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
^ Krygier, John.
"New Medieval Library" .
Ohio Wesleyan University . A Series of Series: 20th-Century Publishers Book Series. Retrieved 5 July 2020 .
^
The New Phoenix Library (Chatto & Windus) - Book Series List , publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
^
The Phoenix Library (Chatto & Windus) - Book Series List , publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
^ Andrew Nash,
"Sifting out 'Rubbish' in the Literature of the Twenties and Thirties: Chatto & Windus and the Phoenix Library" , in: John Spiers, ed., The Culture of the Publisher's Series , vol. 1, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
^
Phoenix Library , worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
^
Phoenix Library of Food and Drink , seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
^
The Phoenix Living Poets (Chatto & Windus) - Book Series List , publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
^ Frak Sidgwick,
The Sources and Analogues of A Midsummernight's Dream , London: Chatto & Windus, 1908, publisher's advertisement in final pages. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
^ Krygier, John.
"St. Martin's Library" .
Ohio Wesleyan University . A Series of Series: 20th-Century Publishers Book Series. Retrieved 5 July 2020 .
^ Krygier, John.
"Zodiac Books" .
Ohio Wesleyan University . A Series of Series: 20th-Century Publishers Book Series. Retrieved 5 July 2020 .
Further reading
Warner, Oliver, Chatto & Windus: A Brief Account of the Firm's Origin, History and Development , London: Chatto & Windus, 1973.
Knowlson, James, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett , New York:
Simon & Schuster , 1996.
Sutherland, John , The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction ,
Stanford University Press : 1990,
ISBN
0-8047-1842-3 , p. 118.
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