Edwin Mellen Press
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| Founded | 1972 |
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| Founder | Herbert Richardson |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Lewiston, New York |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www |
The Edwin Mellen Press is a scholarly publishing house with offices in Lewiston, NY and Lampeter, Wales. It was founded in 1972 by religious scholar Herbert Richardson. It describes itself as "a non-subsidy academic publisher of books in the humanities and social sciences" and publishes "monographs, critical editions, collections, translations, revisionist studies, constructive essays, bibliographies, dictionaries, reference guides and dissertations."
Herbert Richardson founded the Edwin Mellen Press in 1972 with the goal of publishing dissertations by graduate students from his department at the University of St. Michael's College, a Roman Catholic institution that is part of the University of Toronto. Richardson originally ran the press from the basement of his home, which he shared with his wife and four children. The business was named after Edwin Mellen, Richardson's grandfather who was a lover of books and died of a heart attack at 58. Richardson's great-grandfather was Isaac Adams, a Massachusetts State Senator and the inventor of the Adams Power Press.
The Press soon expanded and began to publish dissertations by scholars outside the University of Toronto. By 1977,The Press had grown large enough to warrant its own space. The Edwin Mellen Press briefly established an office in Fredericksburg, VA, before ultimately relocating to Lewiston, NY, a village just across the Canada–US border near Niagara Falls, in 1979.The Press continued to grow and was soon publishing as many as 150 titles a year. In 1987, the Edwin Mellen Press founded an office in Lampeter, Wales.
The Edwin Mellen Press publishes books written at the doctoral reading level, and founder Herbert Richardson has written that The Press "values scholar-for-scholar research more than anything." While university presses often look for works that will appeal to thousands of readers, The Press is primarily interested in whether a work will contribute to the scholarship surrounding a wide range of subjects. In fact, The Press states that "the sole criterion for publication is that the manuscript must make a contribution to scholarship."
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