Open Court Publishing Company

The Open Court Publishing Company is a publisher with offices in Chicago and La Salle, Illinois. It is part of the Carus Publishing Company of Peru, Illinois.

Founded in 1887 by Edward Hegeler of the Matthiessen-Hegeler Zinc Company, its first managing editor was Paul Carus, Hegeler's son-in-law.

Open Court specializes in philosophy, science, and religion, and was one of the first academic presses in the country. It was one of the first publishers of inexpensive editions of the classics. It also published the journals Open Court and The Monist—the latter is still being published as of 2010.

Magic Books published by Open Court Publishing Company

• The Old and the New Magic by Henry R. Evans (1906)
• Behind the Scenes With the Mediums by David Abbott (1907)
• The Marvelous Creations of Joseffy by David Abbott (1908)

Magic related articles in Open Court journal

• "The Psychology of Legerdemain" Vol.7, No. 291 (1893).

References

This page incorporated content from Open Court Publishing Company, a page hosted on Wikipedia. Please consult the history of the original page to see a list of its authors. Therefor, this article is also available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• Category:Books_published_by_Open_Court_Publishing_Company