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| Cupples and Leon | The publishing house of Cupples and Leon was founded in 1902. The firm was acquired by Platt and Munk in 1956, and Platt and Munk was in turn acquired by Grosset & Dunlap in 1977. In 1982 Grosset & Dunlap was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons (of the Putnam Berkley Group). Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com and the company history pages of us.penguingroup.com. | 2008 |
| D. and J. Sadleir and Company | The publishing firm of D. and J. Sadleir and Company was founded in New York in 1837 by the brothers Denis and James Sadleir. In 1895 the rights and plates of many of the firm's most important books were sold to P. J. Kenedy and in 1912 Kenedy purchased the rest of the firm's assets. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 409 and see the FOB entry for P. J. Kenedy and Sons. | 2009 |
| D. Appleton & Company | Daniel Appleton founded his firm as an importer of books around 1813 and published his first book in Boston in 1831. In 1933 the firm merged with The Century Company to form Appleton-Century and in 1948, after a further merger with F. S. Crofts Company, became Appleton-Century-Crofts. See the FOB entry for Appleton-Century-Crofts, which indicates that part of the firm has passed into the ownership of Pearson Education and part into the ownership of the Academic Learning Company. | 2009 |
| D. C. Heath and Company | The educational and academic publishing firm of D. C. Heath and Company, based in Lexington, Massachusetts, was acquired by the Houghton Mifflin Company in 1995. See www.hmco.com. | 2006 |
| D. F. Robinson and Company | The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com. | 2009 |
| Dale Seymour Co. | Dale Seymour Co., a school supplemental publisher, was acquired by the Addison-Wesley division of Pearson in 1989. Addison-Wesley had been 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. | 2008 |
| Darton & Harvey | The publishing firm of Darton & Harvey was established in London in 1791. At various times in the next fifty years, it was known as Harvey & Darton and as Darton, Harvey & Darton. The business was sold to Robert Yorke Clarke in 1847 and it closed in 1852. | 2008 |
| DeWolfe, Fiske and Company | The publishing firm of DeWolfe, Fiske and Company was founded in Boston in 1880 by Perez Morton DeWolfe and Charles F. Fiske, as the successor firm to Albert W. Lovering (q.v.). From 1905 the firm was renamed DeWolfe and Fiske, ceased publishing, and became a retail and wholesale book business. The firm later became a subsidiary of Chadwick-Miller Inc., of Canton, Massachusetts. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 119. | 2009 |
| Diehl, Landau and Pettit | Diehl, Landau and Pettit was founded in 1929 as the successor firm to R. F. Fenno and Company. The firm subsequently became the Landau Book Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 161, which names Louis Landau as the President of the firm in 1986. | 2009 |
| Dix, Edwards and Company | The publishing firm of Dix, Edwards and Company was founded in New York in 1854 by Augustus J. Dix and Arthur T. Edwards. The firm went out of business in 1857. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 125. | 2009 |
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