Ginn & Company

Ginn & Company was an American textbook publisher founded by Edwin Ginn with his brother Fred in 1867, as Ginn Brothers. In 1876 it became Ginn & Heath (with Daniel Collamore Heath), and in 1885 it was established as Ginn & Company. The imprint's first educational book was The English of Shakespeare by George Lillie Craik. Their Grade School Music Readers, by Luther Whiting Mason, were, for some time, a standard music textbook in American schools. Ginn built the Athenaeum Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1895 to house its printing operations, and the company's main offices moved to a brownstone on the site of the former Hancock Manor in 1901. The typeface Century Schoolbook was commissioned by Ginn in 1919 to be used as an easy-to-read type for textbooks. A silent film was created in 1925 to showcase how Ginn produced books at the Athenaeum Press.

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