Little, Brown and Company traces its history…
1837 CE
Little, Brown and Company traces its history back to a bookstore founded in Marlborough Street, Boston, by Ebenezer Battelle in 1784.
Charles Coffin Little and James Brown, partners in the bookstore and former clerks, establish their company in 1837 (as "Charles C. Little and James Brown").
The firm initially specializes in legal treatises and imported titles. (The Little, Brown imprint is today used by Hachette Livre's U.S. publishing company, Hachette Book Group USA.)