J. B. Lippincott & Co.

J. B. Lippincott & Co. was an American publishing house founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1836 by Joshua Ballinger Lippincott. It was incorporated in 1885 as J. B. Lippincott Company.

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