Small, Maynard & Company (Small, Maynard and Company in bibliographies), was a publishing house located in Boston. It is now defunct. In its day it was a highly reputable house in literature, and several American authors were published by it, including, for example, Walt Whitman. The company opened its doors in 1897 at 6 Beacon St. in Boston. New editions of Whitman's Leaves of Grass and an edition of his complete works among the first to be published, after acquiring the rights to thse works from the poet's executors. Around 1907, the firm specialized in Belles-lettres and biographies.