Rowman & Littlefield Announces Agreement to Publish the Portsmouth Review

Lanham, MD and Portsmouth RI, March 16, 2013—Rowman & Littlefield Publishers today announced an agreement with the Portsmouth Institute (www.portsmouthinstitute.org) at the Portsmouth Abbey School (www.portsmouthabbey.org) to publish its periodical, the Portsmouth Review. The first two titles in this new publishing program, Newman and the Intellectual Tradition and The Catholic Shakespeare? will be published tomorrow in cloth editions and also available in ebook format. Subsequent titles in the series to be published later this year and in 2014 include The Catholic William F. Buckley Jr., Modern Science/ Ancient Faith and Catholicism and the American Experience.
The titles will be published under R&L’s Sheed & Ward imprint, the most venerable Catholic imprint in all of publishing.

In making the announcement Rowman & Littlefield CEO Jed Lyons said, “It is a privilege to be associated with an institution as distinguished as the Portsmouth Institute at Portsmouth Abbey, and we look forward to bringing its wealth of high quality academic and spiritual content to a global audience in the years ahead through our Sheed & Ward imprint.”

James MacGuire, director of the Portsmouth Institute, commented, “This is an exciting and significant step in our development, and we look forward to working closely with R&L to gain the broadest possible distribution for the Review.”

Copies of the first two titles in the Portsmouth Review series are available for purchase here.

About Rowman & Littlefield

The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. was founded in 1975. Located in the Washington, DC area, the company is one of the largest independent book publishers in the United States. Publishing under several different imprints, Rowman & Littlefield will release approximately 1,400 new titles in 2013. The company publishes college textbooks, scholarly books, and reference works in the humanities and social sciences as well as K-8 supplementary educational materials. The imprints include Rowman & Littlefield, Scarecrow Press, Lexington Books, and Sundance-Newbridge. Annual sales are $50 million.