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W. A. Leary and Company	W. A. Leary founded his bookselling and publishing business in Philadelphia in 1836. The publishing side of the firm was discontinued in the late 1860s, although Leary's Book store continued for another hundred years before going out of business in 1968. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 248.	2009
W. H. & L. Collingridge Ltd	The publishing firm of W. H. & L. Collingridge Ltd was founded in or before the 1840s, initially publishing religious works, but later specialising in horticulture and botany. In the 1960s the firm was purchased by Paul Hamlyn, and later became part of the Hamlyn Group and the Octopus Group. See the FOB entries for Hamlyn and Octopus Publishing Group, and see www.octopus-publishing.co.uk.	2008
W. H. Allen	W. H. Allen is now part of Virgin Books. In the early nineteenth century, W. H. Allen specialised in books on Indian subjects, but gradually the firm developed into a general publisher. W. H. Allen became a Howard & Wyndham company, but Howard & Wyndham floated off the company in 1984, retaining a 38 per cent share. The W. H. Allen publishing house acquired Virgin Books in 1986, but was then acquired by the Virgin parent company from 1987 (67 per cent purchased) to 1991, when the company was renamed Virgin Publishing. See the FOB entry for Virgin Books.	2009
W. H. Freeman and Company	The publishing firm of W. H. Freeman and Company was founded by William H. Freeman in 1946. In 1986 W. H. Freeman was acquired by the Holtzbrinck group, and in 1996 it was formed into a division with Bedford Books, St Martin's Press and Worth Publishers. See www.bfwpub.com.	2009
W. J. Watt and Company	William J. Watt founded his own publishing firm in New York in 1908, publishing mostly fiction. The firm went out of business in 1928 and Watt died in 1948. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 375.	2008
W. L. Allison	William L. Allison founded his publishing firm in New York in 1869, publishing low-price books and reference works, including the Arundale Edition. The firm went out of business in 1892. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 9.	2009
Wallace Literary Agency	Wallace, Aitken, & Sheil was founded in 1974 as a partnership between literary agents Gillon Aitken, Anthony Sheil, and Lois Wallace, with Wallace being the primary United States agent for the clients of the British agency, Anthony Sheil Associates, Ltd. The agency was changed in 1978 to the Wallace & Sheil Agency, Inc. when Aitken departed the partnership. The firm remained the Wallace & Sheil Agency, Inc. until 1988, when the partnership between Lois Wallace and Anthony Sheil was dissolved. At that time, the agency took its current name, the Wallace Literary Agency. From 1987 to 1998, Lois Wallace's husband, Tom Wallace, was an agent with the firm. The Wallace Literary Agency was jointly acquired by Robin Strauss and Andrew Nurnberg in 2014 who operate under the name Robin Straus Agency, Inc.	2025
Walter H. Baker Company	George M. Baker purchased the play division of Herbert Sweet and Company (q.v.) in 1872 and renamed the firm George M. Baker and Company. The firm was managed by Baker's brother Walter H. Baker, and was renamed the Walter H. Baker Company in 1892. The firm now trades as Baker's Plays. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 35-37, and see www.bakersplays.com.	2009
Way and Williams	The publishing firm of Way and Williams was founded in Chicago in 1895 by Washington Irving Way and Chauncey L. Williams. The firm went out of business in 1898, when its assets were acquired by Herbert S. Stone and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 477-478, and see the FOB entry for Herbert S. Stone and Company.	2009
Weber & Field	The music hall production and publishing firm of Weber & Field flourished in the 1890s, after which its publishing list was purchased by M. Witmark & Sons. See the FOB entry for M. Witmark & Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2007

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