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George Routledge and Frederick Warne founded the company George Routledge & Co. in 1851. The pair entered the booming market for selling inexpensive imprints of works of fiction to rail travellers in 1848 before establishing the firm.
Routledge is headquartered in the main Taylor & Francis office at Milton Park in Abingdon Oxfordshire. It operates from Taylor & Francis offices globally including Philadelphia Melbourne New Delhi Singapore Tokyo Beijing and Taipei.
The company publishes approximately 1,800 journals and 5,000 new books each year. Its backlist encompasses over 140,000 titles across humanities behavioural science education law and social science fields.
A management buyout financed by the European private equity firm Cinven saw Routledge operating as an independent company once again in 1996. Cinven and Routledge's directors accepted a deal for Routledge's acquisition by Taylor & Francis Group in 1998.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Edward Craig was published in 1998 across 10 volumes. Taylor and Francis closed down the Routledge print encyclopaedia division in 2006 and this work is now available online only.