New York. Dodd, Mead and Company was the final successor to several earlier 19th century publishers. Taylor and Dodd (1839-1840) gave way to M.W. Dodd (1840-1870) and finally to Dodd and Mead from 1870 to 1876 when the final iteration -Dodd, Mead and Company came into being. This New York publisher has been a major player in the publishing world for more than a century. Literature, biography and fiction have been a mainstay. Children's books have not been a significant product although it did publish Martha Finley's Elsie books and a number of Jacob Abbott's Series.

Tom Brown's School Days appeared in its Bookman's Classics Series in 1900.