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Swan Sonnenschein	William Swan Sonnenschein formed his first publishing firm, W. Swan Sonnenschein & Allen, in 1878. From 1882 this became W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. In 1911 the Swan Sonnenschein company merged with George Allen & Co., and in 1914 the merged firm became George Allen & Unwin Ltd. See the FOB entry for George Allen & Unwin.	2006
Sweet & Maxwell	The legal publishing firm of Sweet & Maxwell was founded in 1799. In 1987 it was acquired by the Thomson Corporation, and it now forms part of Thomson Legal & Regulatory. See www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.thomson.com.	2006
Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers	Swets & Zeitlinger was founded in 1916 and based in Lisse, the Netherlands. In 2003 Swets & Zeitlinger was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.tandf.co.uk/swets.asp.	2008
T. & A. D. Poyser	T. & A. D. Poyser, formerly part of Elsevier Science, is now part of the Natural History division of A. & C. Black Publishers Ltd. A. & C. Black is still trading under its own name (see www.acblack.com), but is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing.	2008
Taylor and Dodd	The publishing firm of Taylor and Dodd was founded by John S. Taylor and Moses Woodruff Dodd in New York in 1839. In 1840 Dodd bought out Taylor and renamed the firm M. W. Dodd. In 1870 the management of the firm was taken over by Dodd's nephew Edward S. Mead and in 1876 the firm was renamed Dodd, Mead and Company. This information is drawn from the catalogue of the archives of Dodd, Mead and Company in the University of Delaware Library. See the FOB entry for Dodd, Mead and Company.	2008
The Ark Press	Kim Taylor designed and printed two projects for his The Ark Press in 1954 followed by a collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin in 1958 under The Ark Press imprint. From 1960–1969 Taylor oversaw production of the first 100 publications of the Humanities Research (now Harry Ransom) Center, University of Texas at Austin, including its lauded Tower poetry series. During this time The Ark Press independently produced two volumes of poetry by Howard Morland and two titles under Taylor’s pseudonym of Michael Adam. After Taylor returned to England in 1969 several new titles appeared under the Ark imprint between 1970 and 1973 but the press closed in 1975.	2025
The Critic	The Critic was a New York-based magazine of literary criticism published beginning in 1881. In 1884 the magazine merged with Good Literature to become The Critic and Good Literature and started a new series. The title reverted to The Critic that same year. In 1906, the magazine was absorbed into a new incarnation of Putnam's Monthly, which was titled Putnam's Monthly and The Critic for its initial issues. A small collection of responses from 26 American authors to the question “Has America Produced a Poet?” solicited by The Critic’s editors is housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025
Theodore Bliss and Company	Theodore Bliss was a partner in the publishing firm of H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss (q.v.) until it was dissolved in 1862 because of Civil War financial difficulties. After the war Bliss formed his own publishing firm which he ran for several years until forced by ill health to retire. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 356.	2009
Thomas Cadell	The firm of Thomas Cadell was founded in the 1760s, and from 1793 to the 1820s traded as Cadell & Davies. Thomas Cadell became part of the Longman Group. See the FOB entry for Longman and see www.pearson.com.	2008
Thomas Murby & Co.	The geological publishers Thomas Murby & Co. were purchased during World War II by Messrs George Allen & Unwin. See the FOB entry for George Allen & Unwin, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to HarperCollins.	2006

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