Dover Publications is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife, Blanche. It publishes primarily reissues, books no longer published by their original publishers — often, but not always, books in the public domain. Many of these books are of particular historical interest or scarce, and are therefore expensive in earlier editions.
It is well known for its reprints of classic works of literature, classical sheet mus...
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Dover Publications is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife, Blanche. It publishes primarily reissues, books no longer published by their original publishers — often, but not always, books in the public domain. Many of these books are of particular historical interest or scarce, and are therefore expensive in earlier editions.
It is well known for its reprints of classic works of literature, classical sheet music and of public-domain images from the 18th and 19th centuries. Dover also publishes an extensive collection of mathematical, scientific and engineering texts as well as numerous books in niche interests such as the history of science or the history of furniture design and wood working. They have an extensive line of clip art collections (on CD-ROM, of late), coloring books, stencils, temporary tattoo sets, and paper dolls.
Most Dover reprints are facsimiles by photo process of the originals, retaining the original pagination and typeset,...
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