Roberts Brothers

For the French engineers, see Robert brothers. For other people, see List of people with surname Roberts.

Roberts Brothers
Emblem of Roberts Bros., publishers, 1869
Founded1857
FounderAustin J. Roberts, John F. Roberts, and Lewis A. Roberts
SuccessorLittle, Brown and Company
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationBoston, Massachusetts
Publication typesBooks

Messrs. Roberts Brothers (1857–1898) were bookbinders and publishers in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1857 by Austin J. Roberts,[1] John F. Roberts,[2] and Lewis A. Roberts,[3] the firm began publishing around the early 1860s. American authors included: Louisa May Alcott, Susan Coolidge, Emily Dickinson, Maud Howe Elliott, Louise Imogen Guiney, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker. British and European authors included: Berthold Auerbach, Caroline Bauer, Mathilde Blind, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Anne Gilchrist, David Gray, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Jean Ingelow, Vernon Lee, William Morris, Silvio Pellico, Adelaide Ristori, A. Mary F. Robinson, George Sand, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Helen Zimmern.

  1. ^ Boston Directory. 1857, 1858, 1861, 1862.
  2. ^ Boston Directory. 1857, 1858.
  3. ^ Boston Directory. 1857, 1858, 1861, 1862, 1868. Lewis A. Roberts worked as a bookbinder in Boston prior to the establishment of the Roberts Brothers firm; cf. Boston Almanac, 1853.