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In 1807, Charles Wiley, then 25 years old, opened a small printing shop at 6 Reade Street in lower Manhattan, New York City. During the next four years, he worked with other printers, primarily Isaac Riley, printing and publishing law books. In 1812, C. Wiley, Printer appeared for the first time on the title pages of several legal works. Two years later, Charles Wiley formed a printing, publishing, and bookselling partnership with Cornelius Van Winkle, a noted printer, located at 3 Wall Street. At this site Wiley also hosted the Den, a meeting place for writers such as James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant that foreshadowed the Greenwich Village coffee houses of the 1950s. Wiley and Van Winkle ended their partnership in 1820, when Charles chose to focus on publishing and bookselling and began hiring others to do his printing. He published James Fenimore Coopers The Spy in 1821 and helped to launch this first American novelists career. Wiley also published works by Richard Henry Dana, Washington Irving, and many other writers. When Charles Wiley died in 1826, his son John, then age 18, took over the family business. Over the next 65 years, he continued as a bookseller and publisher, promoting American and European authors. In 1836, he hired George Putnam as a junior partner; together they achieved prominence publishing such works as Herman Melvilles Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, Edgar Allan Poes The Raven, and Nathaniel Hawthornes Mosses from an Old Manse. They published the works of European writers such as Hans Christian Andersen, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

 

Address: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Customer Services Department. 1 Oldlands Way, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO22 9SA. UK
Telephone: 44 (0) 1243 843294
Fax: 44 (0) 1243 843303
Website: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/