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Henry Holt and Company

American book-publishing company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia

Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Source revisionAug 24, 2026

Entity authoritySource title only

Source-derived summary

Henry Holt and Company is an American book-publishing company based in New York City. One of the oldest publishers in the United States, it was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt. The company publishes in the fields of American and international fiction, biography, history, politics, science, psychology, health, and children's literature. In the U.S., it operates under Macmillan Publishers.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Henry Holt and Company” as american book-publishing company. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1866—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Henry, Holt and Company can be independently traced.

Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as american book-publishing company. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1866.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for

Identifying works and editions
Tracing reception history
Finding collection records

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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

Establish the record: confirm the title “Henry Holt and Company”, its source revision and the description used here.
Expand the search: follow Henry Holt and Company primary sources, Henry Holt and Company archive and Henry research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Henry Holt and Company”?
Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Henry Holt and Company” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.