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Smith, Elder & Co.

Known as Smith, Elder, and Co., Smith, Elder and Co.

Publishing company founded in London in 1836 by George Smith (1789–1846) and Alexander Elder (1790–1876). Acquired by John Murray in 1917.

Publications

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Title Author(s) Translator Year Location Notes
A Historical View of the Hindu Astronomy (transcription project) John Bentley 1825 London
Costumes of the Canary Islands (transcription project) Alfred Diston 1829 London
Exposition of the Practical Operation of the Judicial and Revenue Systems of India (transcription project) Rammohun Roy 1832 London
Twenty-four plates illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal (transcription project) Sophie Charlotte Belnos, Alexandre-Marie Colin 1832 London
The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Charles Darwin 1838 London
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (transcription project) Currer Bell, Ellis Bell, Acton Bell 1846 London
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3) Currer Bell 1847 London
Shirley (Vol. II) Currer Bell 1849 London
Pictures of life in Mexico (transcription volumes: 1, 2) Reginald Herbert Mason 1852 London
Villete (transcription project) Currer Bell 1853 London Three volumes bound as one.
The Bhilsa Topes; or, Buddhist Monuments of Central India (transcription project) Alexander Cunningham 1854 London
Victoria: with a description of its principal cities, Melbourne and Geelong (transcription project) Henry Butler Stoney 1856 London
Life of Edmond Malone, Editor of Shakspeare (transcription project) James Prior 1860 London
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow (transcription project) Rees Howell Gronow 1862 London
The New Forest: its history and its scenery (transcription project) John Richard de Capel Wise 1863 London Illustrated by Walter Crane
A Dark Night's Work (transcription project) Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1863 London
Romola (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3) George Eliot 1863 London
The Small House at Allington (transcription volumes: 1, 2) Anthony Trollope 1864 London
The Book of Were-Wolves (transcription project) Sabine Baring-Gould 1865 London
A History of Persia (transcription project) Robert Grant Watson 1866 London
The Last Chronicle of Barset (transcription volumes: 1, 2) Anthony Trollope 1867 London
The Annals of Rural Bengal (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3) William Wilson Hunter 1872 London 5th edition
Far from the Madding Crowd (transcription volumes: 1, 2) Thomas Hardy 1874 London Illustrated by H. Paterson
The Agamemnon of Æschylus (transcription project) Aeschylus Robert Browning 1877 London
Culture and Anarchy (transcription project) Matthew Arnold 1882 London 3rd edition
Literature and Dogma (transcription project) Matthew Arnold 1883 London
Dictionary of National Biography Multiple 1885–1900 London Edited by Leslie Stephen (1–26) and Sidney Lee (22–63). 63 volumes.
Court Royal (transcription project) Sabine Baring-Gould 1887 London
A Life's Morning George Gissing 1888 London (transcription volumes: 1, 2) Vol. 3
The Nether World: A Novel George Gissing 1889 London Three volumes: (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
Twelve Years in a Monastery (transcription project) Joseph McCabe 1897 London
The White Company (transcription project) Arthur Conan Doyle 1901 London Illustrated by George Willis Bardwell
Count Hannibal: A Romance of the Court of France (transcription project) Stanley J. Weyman 1901 London
Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement Multiple. 1901 London Edited by Sidney Lee. Three volumes.
Romance: A Novel (transcription project) Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford 1903 London
The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport (transcription project) Arthur Conan Doyle 1905 London New edition of 1900 work.
Songs of the Road (transcription project) Arthur Conan Doyle 1911 London
Fathers of Men (transcription project) E. W. Hornung 1912 London
Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement Multiple 1912 London Edited by Sidney Lee. Three volumes.
Russian sketches, chiefly of peasant life (transcription project) Nikolai Leskov, Dmitry Grigorovich, Nikolay Nekrasov Beatrix L. Tollemache 1913 London