The writer regrets to state that he has not been able to get authentic data for historical accounts of the old firms of Brewer & Tileston and William Ware & Company of Boston, J. H. Butler & Company, E. H. Butler & Company, and Cowperthwait Company of Philadelphia, or Taintor Brothers of New York. There has not been included in this record several of the younger houses like the Southern Publishing Company of Texas and the University Publishing Company of Nebraska. It is also a fact that there has been no attempt to secure the records of the old printing houses, which were not publishers as we understand the meaning of the term. Transcriber’s Note: Variations in spelling and punctuation, and the use of italic (denoted by underscores), have been retained as they appear in the original publication except as follows: Page 11 from Longfellow, Lowell Emerson, _changed to_ from Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Page 20 Sander’s School Readers _changed to_ Sanders’ School Readers Page 26 LYONS & CARNAHAN. This _changed to_ LYONS & CARNAHAN.--This Page 31 SCHWARTZ, KIRWIN & FAUSS. This _changed to_ SCHWARTZ, KIRWIN & FAUSS.--This End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Brief Account of the Educational Publishing Business in the United , by William Edmond Pulsifer