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Robert M. McBride and Company	Robert M. McBride and Company was a publishing firm founded in New York in 1915 by Robert Medill McBride. Its predecessor firms were called McBride, Winston and Company and McBride, Nast and Company (q.v). In 1948 the firm was in financial difficulties and sold sixty of its titles to Dodd, Mead (q.v.). In 1949 the remainder of the firm was sold to Outlet Book Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 224-227, and see the FOB entry for Outlet Book Company, which indicates the firm is today a division of Random House, Inc. (www.randomhouse.com), known as Random House Value Publishing.	2008
Robert Ross & Co. Ltd	Robert Ross & Co. Ltd was founded in the 1930s as a nautical publishing company. In 1952, the firm changed its name to Adlard Coles Ltd, and since 1990 it has been known as Adlard Coles Nautical. See the FOB entry for Adlard Coles Nautical and www.acblack.com.	2007
Rudd and Carleton	The publishing firm of Rudd and Carleton was founded in New York in 1857 as the successor firm to Livermore and Rudd. In 1857 Edward Livermore retired from the firm and its owners became Edward P. Rudd, his father George Rudd and George Washington Carleton. In 1861 both the Rudds retired, and the firm continued as G. W. Carleton. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 398, and see the FOB entry for G. W. Carleton.	2009
S. Pearson and Son	S. Pearson and Son is one of the forerunner companies of the Pearson Group. It was founded in 1844 as a small building firm. See the company history pages of www.pearson.com.	2007
S. W. Partridge and Co.	The printing and publishing firm of S. W. Partridge and Co. was founded in 1850. According to 'The Writers' and Artists' Year Book 1939', in 1930 the firm was purchased by A. & C. Black. S. W. Partridge and Co. continued publishing until World War II, but appears to have been discontinued during the war. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black.	2010
S. W. Tilton and Company	Stephen Willis Tilton founded the publishing firm of S. W. Tilton and Company in the 1870s, after the closure in 1874 of J. E. Tilton and Company (q.v.). Publications of S. W. Tilton and Company have been traced for the 1870s and 1880s but not later. According to the website www.tilton.org, Stephen Willis Tilton was born in 1833 and died in 1911.	2021
Saalfield Publishing Company	The Saalfield Publishing Company was founded in Akron, Ohio in 1900 by Arthur J. Saalfield, who had taken over the publishing assets of the Werner Company. The firm developed a specialism in books in the names of motion picture stars, including Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe and Woody Woodpecker. The firm ceased operations and went out of existence in 1977. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 324.	2009
Samuel Bagster & Sons Ltd	The religious publishing firm of Samuel Bagster & Sons was founded around 1794. The firm was sold (as part of the assets of George Webb Bookbinders) to Marshall, Morgan and Scott in 1973. Marshall, Morgan and Scott merged with Pickering & Inglis in the mid-1980s to form Marshall Pickering. See the FOB entry for Marshall Pickering, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to the Zondervan division of News Corporation. See www.zondervan.com.	2007
Saunders, Otley & Co.	Saunders, Otley & Co. began publishing in the 1820s. The firm eventually became one of the component or subsidiary firms of Chatto & Windus. See the FOB entry for Chatto & Windus Ltd.	2008
Scott and Seltzer	The publishing firm of Scott and Seltzer was founded in New York in 1919 by Temple Scott and Thomas Seltzer. In 1920 Scott left and the firm continued as Thomas Seltzer, Inc. The firm became the publisher of D. H. Lawrence, E. E. Cummings and Marcel Proust, but was pursued by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and came close to bankruptcy. In 1926 the firm's publishing business was acquired by Albert and Charles Boni, who continued with occasional use of the Seltzer imprint. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 54-57 and see the FOB entry for Albert and Charles Boni.	2008

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