Edward Payson Dutton

From Notable Ridgefielders, Hersam Acorn Newspapers 2003

Edward Payson Dutton has left the world with countless books and Ridgefield with one of its finest mansions. The founder of the publishing company that bore his name for more than a century lived and died in Ridgefield. Born in New Hampshire in 1831, Mr. Dutton grew up in Boston and when only 21, he and a partner formed Ide and Dutton, booksellers. In 1852, this became E.P. Dutton & Company, which Mr. Dutton moved to New York in 1869. In addition to the longstanding E.P. Dutton imprint, he had bought Ticknor & Fields, a Boston publisher, and acquired American rights to the British series, Everyman's Library, under which his company turned out scores of affordable titles. In the early 1890s, Mr. Dutton decided to build a house on High Ridge, and hired Ridgefield's top builder. "Big Jim" Kennedy spent two years carefully erecting the place, which still stands at 63 High Ridge. . . .  In 1912, he joined others in contributing the money to buy the village land on which the big, brick East Ridge School, later the Ridgefield High School, was built in 1915. Mr. Dutton died here in 1923, but his firm continued on until the 1990s when it was acquired by Penguin Putnam, which still uses the Dutton imprint on some of its books.

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From About Us DUTTON, Penguin Group (USA) 2005

The history of Dutton dates back to 1852, when Edward Payson Dutton founded a book-selling firm in Boston, E. P. Dutton. In 1864, a branch office was set up in New York, and the company began to publish books as well as sell them. Its original focus was on religious titles, and the first great success was the two-volume Life of Christ book by Frederic Farrar, published in 1874. In 1885, John Macrae began working at Dutton as an office boy; he would spend fifty-nine years with the company rising in the ranks. He became President in 1923, and in 1928 the publishing house separated from the bookstore and became his property shared with his two sons. E. P. Dutton published such notable books as . . .

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Osusky, Stefan, 1889- Title The way of the free. Edition [1st ed.] Publisher New York, Dutton, 1951. Description 320 p. 21 cm.

Keyser, Cassius Jackson, 1862-1947. Title Mole philosophy & other essays, Publisher New York, E. P. Dutton & company [c1927] Description x p., 1 l., 234 p. 21 cm.

Keyser, Cassius Jackson, 1862-1947. Title Thinking about thinking, by Cassius J. Keyser... Publisher New York, E. P. Dutton & company [c1926] Description v p., 1 l., 91 p. 16 cm. Series To-day and to-morrow series

Keyser, Cassius Jackson, 1862-1947. Title Mathematical philosophy, a study of fate and freedom; lectures for educated laymen, Publisher New York, E. P. Dutton & company [c1922] Description xiv p., 1 l., 466 p. diagrs. 22 cm.

Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Youngsters; collected poems of childhood, by Burges Johnson, illustrated by Rollin Crampton. Publisher New York, E.P. Dutton & company [c1921] Description xiii, 250 p. incl. front., illus., plates. 22 cm.

Korzybski, Alfred, 1879-1950. Title Manhood of humanity; the science and art of human engineering, by Alfred Korzybski. Imprint New York, E.P. Dutton & Company [1921] Note Contains bibliographies. [ New York Public Library ]
Note : the edition not listed by the University of California http://melvyl.cdlib.org as of today (26 April 05) ; this does seem irregular. (WPT)