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Scott Foresman	The Scott Foresman imprint was founded in 1889. It is now part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com. The firm of Scott Foresman & Co. was purchased by Time Inc. in 1985 and then sold to Harper & Row in 1989. News Corporation incorporated Scott Foresman into HarperCollins Educational Publishers and then sold HarperCollins Educational to Addison-Wesley in 1996. See the FOB entry for Addison-Wesley, which has been part of the Pearson Group since 1988.	2008
Secker & Warburg	Secker & Warburg was founded as Martin Secker in 1910 and purchased by Fredric Warburg in 1936. In the early 1980s the firm became part of the Heinemann Group, which in turn was taken over by Reed International and then by Random House. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com. In 2004 Random House merged its imprints Harvill Press and Secker & Warburg to form Harvill Secker.	2008
Sheed & Ward Ltd	The Roman Catholic publishing house of Sheed & Ward was founded by Francis Joseph Sheed and Maisie Ward in 1926. The firm is now in the ownership of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, which continues to use the name as an imprint. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Sheldon and Company	In 1853 Smith Sheldon purchased the publishing firm of Lamport, Blakeman and Law and renamed it Sheldon, Lamport and Blakeman. The firm later traded as Sheldon, Blakeman and Company, Sheldon and Company and I. E. Sheldon, before going out of business in 1898. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 420.	2009
Shepard, Clark and Brown	The publishing firm of Shepard, Clark and Company was founded in Boston in 1855 by Charles A. B. Shepard, H. A. Clark and E. C. Walker. In 1857 Walker was replaced by E. W. Brown and the company was renamed Shepard, Clark and Brown. It went out of business in 1859. Charles Shepard later became one of the founders of Lee and Shepard (q.v.). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 423.	2009
Sidgwick & Jackson	Sidgwick & Jackson was founded in 1908, and was purchased by Macmillan from Lord Forte in the mid-1980s. Since 1999, Macmillan has been wholly owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group. Sidgwick & Jackson forms part of the Pan Macmillan division within Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2006
Silas Andrus and Son	Silas Andrus founded his publishing firm in Hartford, Connecticut in 1820. In the 1830s the firm was known as Andrus and Judd. Andrus went bankrupt in 1839, but in 1844 he re-formed the firm as Silas Andrus and Son and continued publishing until the firm went out of business around 1855. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 22.	2009
Silver Burdett Company	Silver Burdett Company was founded (as Silver & Co.) in the 1880s as an education publishing house. The firm was purchased in 1985-86 by Simon & Schuster. In 1998 all the Simon & Schuster educational businesses, including Silver Burdett Company, were sold to Pearson, which formed a new company called Pearson Education. The name of Silver Burdett is preserved in the Pearson imprint of Silver Burdett Ginn. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008
Simpkin Marshall Ltd	The publishing and wholesaling firm of Simpkin Marshall was founded in 1779. The firm ceased trading and declared bankruptcy in 1955. See reports in 'The Times', April-June 1955. According to 'The Times', 25 May 1955, the assets of the firm and its good will were purchased by Hatchards. See www.hatchards.co.uk.	2008
Small, Maynard and Company	The publishing firm of Small, Maynard and Company was founded in Boston in 1897 by Herbert Small and Laurens Maynard. The firm was in financial difficulty by the mid-1920s. In 1926 it sold some of its titles to Dodd, Mead and Company (q.v.) and in 1927 it was declared bankrupt and went out of business. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 426-430.	2009

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