James Thomas Fields was an American publisher, editor, and poet. His business, Ticknor and Fields, was a notable publishing house in 19th century Boston.
James Thomas Fields, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron, circa 1869
Fields, circa 1855
Fields retired from his publishing company in 1871 to focus on lecturing and writing.
Grave of James T. Fields at Mount Auburn Cemetery
Ticknor and Fields was an American publishing company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded as a bookstore in 1832, the business published many 19th-century American authors, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, and Mark Twain. It also became an early publisher of The Atlantic Monthly and North American Review.
Ticknor and Fields colophon, c. 1867
James T. Fields
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851
Walden by Henry David Thoreau, 1854