The company was founded at 43-47 East Tenth Street in 1892 by John Wurtele Lovell and Vincent M. Coryell. It was a subsidiary of United States Book Company. Having moved in May 1893 to the offices of the United States Book Company at 5-7 East Sixteenth Street, Lovell, Coryell and Company was forced to move again in February 1894 upon the bankruptcy of the parent company. In 1897 Lovell, Coryell and Company was renamed Coryell and Company and taken over by the American Publishers Corporation.
