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Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta	Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta is part of the VCH group, which in turn is part of Wiley. See www.wiley-vch.de.	2008
Victor Adams & Co.	The imprint of Victor Adams & Co. flourished in the 1870s and was one of many imprints used by the complex of firms usually described as Beadle and Adams (q.v.). See the FOB entry for Beadle and Adams; the Lucile entry at sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile/publishers/adamsvictor/adamsvictor.htm; and www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp.	2009
W. A. Benjamin Company	The science publisher W. A. Benjamin was acquired by Addison-Wesley in 1970. Addison-Wesley was purchased by Pearson plc in 1988, and still forms part of the Pearson Group. For a time the divison within Pearson was known both as Longman Addison Wesley and as Addison Wesley Longman, but it has now reverted to Addison-Wesley. See www.pearson.com.	2006
W. A. Leary and Company	W. A. Leary founded his bookselling and publishing business in Philadelphia in 1836. The publishing side of the firm was discontinued in the late 1860s, although Leary's Book store continued for another hundred years before going out of business in 1968. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 248.	2009
W. H. & L. Collingridge Ltd	The publishing firm of W. H. & L. Collingridge Ltd was founded in or before the 1840s, initially publishing religious works, but later specialising in horticulture and botany. In the 1960s the firm was purchased by Paul Hamlyn, and later became part of the Hamlyn Group and the Octopus Group. See the FOB entries for Hamlyn and Octopus Publishing Group, and see www.octopus-publishing.co.uk.	2008
W. H. Freeman and Company	The publishing firm of W. H. Freeman and Company was founded by William H. Freeman in 1946. In 1986 W. H. Freeman was acquired by the Holtzbrinck group, and in 1996 it was formed into a division with Bedford Books, St Martin's Press and Worth Publishers. See www.bfwpub.com.	2009
W. J. Watt and Company	William J. Watt founded his own publishing firm in New York in 1908, publishing mostly fiction. The firm went out of business in 1928 and Watt died in 1948. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 375.	2008
Wace Corporate Print	The firm of Wace Corporate Print was purchased by The Print Factory in 2005. See www.tpfgroup.co.uk.	2008
Walter H. Baker Company	George M. Baker purchased the play division of Herbert Sweet and Company (q.v.) in 1872 and renamed the firm George M. Baker and Company. The firm was managed by Baker's brother Walter H. Baker, and was renamed the Walter H. Baker Company in 1892. The firm now trades as Baker's Plays. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 35-37, and see www.bakersplays.com.	2009
Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd	The Newcastle-upon-Tyne printing and publishing firm of Walter Scott came into existence in 1882 when Walter Scott took over the assets of Tyne Publishing Company. The firm declined after Scott's death in 1910 and was finally wound up in 1931. See John R. Turner: 'Conditions for success as a provincial publisher in late nineteenth-century England', Publishing history 41 (1997).	2008

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