Daniel David Merrill, with his father, D.D. Merrill, his brother, L.K. Merrill, and a friend, Francis E. Baker, published textbooks for the state of Minnesota. In 1893, Merrill published Ridpath's History of the United States and tried to enter mainstream publishing. In 1904 the firm filed bankruptcy, but it continued to publish Ridpath's history in a variety of formats and styles. D.D. Merrill died in 1906. Baker left the firm to become a U.S. Circuit Court Judge. (This information, with permision, from the publisher's pages of The Hyde Park Book Store, http://paperbarn.www1.50megs.com/). Merrill & Baker submitted catalogs to Publishers' Trade List Annual 1894-1897; these have not yet been searched.
Nd.
110x165mm, 360p. Black and while lithographic frontispiece of Lucile
standing alone in a field. Titlepage has "Lucile" and "Merrill and
Baker" printed red. Binding is celluloid tinted very pale blue-green,
handpainted, crimped on the edges; textblock is stabbed twice near
the spine and the book is held together by a thread. Teg, plain
endpapers. S&EH: signature dated "Xmas 1900" on front
flyleaf.