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Ticknor and Company	The publishing firm of Ticknor and Company was founded in 1885 by Benjamin H. Ticknor, Thomas B. Ticknor and George F. Godfrey, when the firm of James R. Osgood and Company (q.v.) was forced out of business for the second time. Ticknor and Company went bankrupt in 1889 and its assets were acquired by Houghton Mifflin. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 347, and see www.hmco.com.	2009
Ticknor and Fields	The publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields was founded in 1854 as the successor to Ticknor, Reed and Fields. In 1880 Ticknor and Fields merged with the Riverside Press, which was owned by Henry Houghton and George Mifflin, to form Houghton Mifflin and Company. See also the more detailed history of Ticknor and Fields given at sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile; 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 163 & 461-466; and the Company History page at www.hmco.com.	2009
Ticknor, Reed and Fields	William D. Tickner was a partner in Allen and Ticknor (1832-1834). He then ran his own publishing company in Boston from 1834. In 1843 John Reed and James T. Fields became partners in the firm of William D. Ticknor and Company, and in 1849 the firm was renamed Ticknor, Reed and Fields. Reed withdrew from the company in 1854 and it continued initially as Ticknor and Fields. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 461-466, and see the FOB entry for Ticknor and Fields.	2009
Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.	The firm of Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., the publishers of imprints such as Tor, Forge and Orb, was established by Tom Doherty in 1980. The firm was purchased by St Martin's Press in 1986. St Martin's Press has been wholly owned since 1999 by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2008
U. P. James	The brothers Joseph A. James and Uriah Pierson James founded a series of publishing, printing and bookselling firms in Cincinatti from 1831, of which the most prominent were named U. P. James and J. A. and U. P. James. U. P. James engaged in all the publishing activities of their firm. The brothers dissolved their partnership in 1854, and U. P. James continued his publishing business until he closed down his firm in 1880. He died in 1889. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 224-225.	2009
University Press of America	The book publishing firm called University Press of America was founded in 1975. The firm is now part of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.univpress.com and www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Vaughan and Gomme	The publishing firm of Vaughan and Gomme was founded in New York in 1914 by Donald Vaughan and Laurence James Gomme. Vaughan withdrew from the firm in 1914, and it continued as Gomme and Marshall (q.v.) and then as Laurence James Gomme, before Gomme closed the firm and ended his publishing career in 1917. Lawrence James Gomme was born in 1882 and died in 1974. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 163.	2008
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

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