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Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Weidenfeld & Nicolson was founded by George Weidenfeld and Nigel Nicolson in 1949. The following passage is taken from the Orion website (http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/history.aspx): "The Orion Publishing Group Limited was founded in 1991. Soon after incorporation, Orion began negotiations with Lord Weidenfeld and acquired Weidenfeld & Nicolson as the nucleus of a new, entrepreneurial publishing group." The Orion Publishing Group was bought by Hachette in 1998, but continues to trade under its own name, with titles still appearing under the imprint of Weidenfeld & Nicolson.	2008
West, Johnston and Company	The publishing firm of West, Johnston and Company was founded in Richmond, Virginia in 1860 by John Montgomery West and Thomas Johnston. For its first six years the firm was known as West and Johnston. The firm was in financial difficulty in the 1890s and went bankrupt in 1896. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 482.	2009
Western Publishing Company	Western Printing and Lithographing Company was founded in Racine, Wisconsin around 1910. In 1916 Western acquired the Hamming-Whitman Company (q.v.) and in 1960 changed its name to Western Publishing Company. See the FOB entry for Golden Books, its best known imprint. In the 1980s Western Publishing changed its name to Golden Books Family Entertainment. In 1999 the firm filed for bankruptcy. In 2001 all the publishing assets of the firm were acquired by Random House, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/golden.	2008
Whaley and Company	The Irish printer and publisher George Roberts briefly used the imprint of Whaley and Company, before he founded the firm of Maunsel in 1905. See the FOB entry for Maunsel and Roberts.	2008
White, Stokes and Allen	The publishing firm of White, Stokes and Allen was founded in New York in 1883 by Joel Parker White, Frederick B. Stokes and Frank Allen. The firm went bankrupt in 1890. See sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile.	2009
Wicks and Wilson Limited	The firm of Wicks and Wilson Limited was founded in Hampshire, UK, in 1973. In 2011 it was acquired by the Crowley Company. See www.thecrowleycompany.com.	2011
William Morrow & Company	William Morrow founded his publishing company in 1926. The firm remained independent until 1981, when it was acquired by the Hearst Corporation. In 1999 it was sold by Hearst to News Corporation, where it was incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com.	2008
William Rickey and Company	William Rickey and Company was a publishing company established in New York before World War I. The firm went out of business around 1913. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 119.	2008
William Rider & Son	The publishing firm of William Rider & Son was founded in 1908. The firm was acquired by Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann, and Rider is now a Random House imprint. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
William S. Damrell	The publishing firm of Ford and Damrell was founded in Boston in 1833 by John Ford and William S. Damrell. In 1835 the partners separated and Damrell ran his own firm. From 1837 to 1848 the firm traded as Whipple and Damrell, before reverting to William S. Damrell and occasionally Damrell and Moore. The firm went out of business in 1861. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 113.	2009

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