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Irwin P. Beadle and Company	The publishing firm of Irwin P. Beadle and Company was founded by Irwin Beadle and Robert Adams in 1859, and forms part of the complex of firms usually described as Beadle and Adams (q.v.). Several times Irwin Beadle separated from the main firm, founding a second Irwin P. Beadle and Company in 1862 (sold to George Munro in 1864) and a third Irwin P. Beadle and Company from 1865 to 1867. See www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 43-46.	2009
J. B. Baillière	Jean-Baptiste Baillière founded his own medical publishing firm in Paris in 1818 and opened a London office in 1826. See 'Mumby's Publishing and bookselling in the twentieth century', 6th ed. by Ian Norrie (1982). Baillière died in 1867 and two years later his widow sold the firm to A. A. Tindall and William Cox. See the FOB entry for Baillière, Tindall & Cox, which indicates that the firm is now owned by Elsevier Science.	2008
J. B. Lippincott	The Lippincott publishing company was founded in 1785 and remained a family firm until it was purchased by Harper & Row in 1977. Harper & Row created an imprint called Lippincott & Crowell. The Lippincott division was sold by HarperCollins to Wolters Kluwer in 1990. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is now a division of Wolters Kluwer. See www.lww.com and www.wolters-kluwer.com.	2009
J. W. Parker, Son and Bourne	The firm of J. W. Parker, Son and Bourne was taken over by Longman in 1863. See the FOB entry for Longman, which is now part of the Pearson Group, and www.pearson.com.	2008
Job Buffum	Job Buffum founded his publishing firm in Boston in 1850. The firm went out of existence around 1861. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 67.	2009
John B. Alden	John B. Alden began his bookselling and publishing business in New York in the 1870s. He founded a number of firms, several of which went bankrupt. His last two enterprises bore the names of John B. Alden Publisher (1895-1905) and Alden Brothers Publishers (1905-1908). In 1908 he retired and closed down his firm. He died in 1924. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 6.	2009
John Babcock and Son	John Babcock joined the printing, publishing and bookselling firm of his father Elisha Babcock in Hartford, Connecticut in 1795, and the firm soon began to use the imprint of John Babcock. From 1811 the firm moved to New Haven and became known as John Babcock and Son. The firm ceased publishing around 1824. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 31.	2009
John Bioren	John Bioren began his publishing career with the firm of Mountford, Bioren and Company in Philadelphia in 1794. In 1795 he went into partnership with Patrick Madan to form Bioren and Madan, and from 1797 he traded under his own name only. Bioren died in 1835 and his firm went out of business. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 52.	2009
John Bradburn	John Bradburn founded his publishing firm in New York in 1861. The firm went out of existence in 1866. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 63.	2009
Jossey-Bass	The San Francisco-based publisher Jossey-Bass was founded in 1967. The firm passed through several ownerships, including Simon & Schuster and Pearson, before being purchased by Wiley from Pearson in 1999. Jossey-Bass is now a division of Wiley. See www.josseybass.com.	2008

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