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
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science.
The magazine's April 2016 cover
James Russell Lowell, the first editor of The Atlantic
In February 1862, The Atlantic was first to publish the "Battle Hymn of the Republic"