T&T Clark is a British publishing firm which was founded in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1821[1] and which now exists as an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.
| Parent company | Bloomsbury Publishing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1821 (in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom) |
| Founder | Thomas Clark |
| Defunct | 2011 |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London, WC1 |
| Publication types | Academic journals, books |
| Nonfiction topics | Religion |
| Official website | bloomsbury.com/tt-clark |
History
editThe firm was founded in 1821 by Thomas Clark,[2] then aged 22 and who had a Free Church of Scotland background. The company was originally concerned with law and foreign literature and published under the name of "Thomas Clark".
He was joined in a partnership in 1846 by his nephew, also named Thomas Clark.[2] With the arrival of younger Thomas Clark (1823-1900) the firm began issuing works under the name of "T. & T. Clark".[3]
In the 1830s, it began to develop a theology list, taking a progressive evangelical stance and at times, publishing books that were not likely to make a profit. It published work by scholars in both Europe and North America.[2] Its most substantial projects were the English translation of the Ante-Nicene Fathers (which the firm titled Ante-Nicene Christian Library) and the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics. These were only viable because of the existence of a large American market; however, in the 1880s the firm got into a dispute with the Fleming H. Revell Company, over the American firm's copyright violation of some of T&T Clark's titles. The Ante-Nicene Library was bootlegged by the Christian Literature Publishing Company, based in New York City, New York. However, this did not prevent T&T Clark from doing business with them.[4]
In 1965, the company began to publish Concilium, an academic journal of Roman Catholic theology.
In 2003, the three religious academic imprints of Sheffield Academic Press, Trinity Press International and T&T Clark were all acquired by the Continuum International Publishing Group,[2] which itself was acquired by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2011.
Reference works
editEach of the following four works was edited by James Hastings
- Dictionary of the Bible, (1898–1904), 5 vols.
- Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, (1908–1926; 2nd edition 1925–1940, reprint 1955), 13 vols.
- The Great Texts of the Bible, (1910–1915), 20 vols.
- The Greater Men and Women of the Bible, (1913–1916), 6 vols.
Book series
edit- Ante-Nicene Christian Library (ANCL), (1867–72), 24 vols. (Rev. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds.)[5]
- Bible Class Primers (S. D. F. Salmond, ed.)[6]
- The Biblical Cabinet or, Hermeneutical, Exegetical and Philological Library[7]
- Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Court of Justiciary, and House of Lords
- Clark's Foreign Theological Library (1845- )[8][9]
- Cunningham Lectures[9]
- Handbooks for Bible Classes Series (Alexander Whyte and Marcus Dodds, eds.)[10]
- International Critical Commentary[11]
- International Theological Library[12]
- Literature of the New Testament
- Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament
- A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, usually known as the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (NPNF), (1886–1900)
- The Scholar as Teacher Series[13]
- T&T Clark Study Guides to the New Testament (2017- )[14]
- Works of John Calvin
- Works of Saint Augustine, 15 vols (Marcus Dods, ed.)[9][5]
- The World's Epoch-Makers (Oliphant Smeaton, ed.)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Celebrating 200 Years of T&T Clark, bloomsbury.com. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ a b c d About T & T Clark, Continuum International Publishing Group, archive.ph. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
- ^ The T. & T. Clark Story: A Victorian Publisher and the New Theology : with an Epilogue Covering the Twentieth-century History of the Firm, Edinburgh: Pentland Press, 1992, p. 3.
- ^ The T. & T. Clark Story: A Victorian Publisher and the New Theology : with an Epilogue Covering the Twentieth-century History of the Firm, Edinburgh: Pentland Press, 1992, p. 108ff.
- ^ a b Charles A. Briggs, Theological Symbolics, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1914, publisher's advertisement on last page. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
- ^ se:Bible Class Primers, worldcat.org. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ E. F. C. Rosenmüller, The Biblical Geography of Asia Minor, Phœnicia, and Arabia, Edinburgh: Thomas Clark, 1841 (The Biblical Cabinet or, Hermeneutical, Exegetical and Philological Library, Vol. XXXIV). N. Morren, tr. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
- ^ se:Clark's Foreign Theological Library, worldcat.org. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ a b c Publisher's advertisement in final pages of Robert Rainy, Delivery and Development of Christian Doctrine, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1874 (Cunningham Lectures). Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ se:Handbooks for Bible Classes Series, worldcat.org. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ International Critical Commentary, worldcat.org. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ Charles A. Briggs, Theological Symbolics, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1914, preliminary pages. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
- ^ Charles A. Briggs, Theological Symbolics, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1914, publisher's advertisement in final pages. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
- ^ T&T Clark Study Guides to the New Testament, worldcat.org. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
Further reading
edit
- Dempster, John A. H., The profitability of progressive theology publishing in late nineteenth-century Scotland as illustrated by the experience of T. & T. Clark of Edinburgh in the 1880s and 1890s, Ph.D. thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1987. Direct download link here.
- Dempster, John A. H., The T. & T. Clark Story – A Victorian Publisher and the New Theology – With an Epilogue Covering the Twentieth-Century History of the Firm, Edinburgh: Pentland Press, 1992.