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A. D. Peters	The literary agency of A. D. Peters was founded in 1924. In 1988 it merged with the Fraser & Dunlop agency to form Peters, Fraser & Dunlop (PFD). See www.pfd.co.uk.	2009
Anson D. F. Randolph and Company	Anson D. F. Randolph founded his own publishing firm in New York in 1851. Randolph went bankrupt and died in 1898, and the firm's creditors dissolved it the following year. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 382-384.	2009
B. C. Decker	The Philadelphia publishing firm B. C. Decker was founded by Brian C. Decker in 1981. It was purchased by Mosby (a division of Times Mirror) in 1990. Mosby was purchased by Harcourt Brace & Company from Times Mirror in 1998, and the Harcourt Group was in turn purchased by Reed Elsevier in 2001. After the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008 Decker remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com.	2009
B. W. Dodge and Company	B. W. Dodge and Company was established as a publishing firm in New York around 1903. In 1911 the firm was acquired by William Rickey and Company of New York. There is a brief FOB entry for William Rickey and Company, which went out of business before World War I. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 119.	2008
Baker, Crane and Day	The publishing firm of Baker, Crane and Day was founded in New York in 1846 by George Baker, Stephen M. Crane and Edward M. Day, as the successor firm to Mahlon Day (q.v.). The firm went out of business in 1848. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 114-115.	2009
Bibliothèques des Chemins de Fer	Bibliothèques des Chemins de Fer was founded by the publisher Louis Hachette in Paris in 1852. See www.hachette.com.	2008
Book Publishing Development	Book Publishing Development was a publishing vehicle briefly used by Lionel Leventhal and his then-partner Clive Bingley. Any remaining rights are likely to belong to Greenhill Books. See www.greenhillbooks.com.	2008
Buckle Down Publishing	Buckle Down Publishing was founded as an educational publishing firm in Iowa City in 1982. In 2004 the firm was acquired by Haights Cross Communications, Inc., and incorporated as a subsidiary into Triumph Learning LLC. See www.haightscross.com.	2008
C. W. Bardeen	Charles William Bardeen was a partner in the publishing firm of Davis, Bardeen and Company from 1874 to 1880 and then the owner of the successor firm of C. W. Bardeen from 1880 until it went out of business in 1922. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 39.	2009
C. W. Daniel Company Ltd	C. W. Daniel Company Ltd was founded in 1902 as a Tolstoyan, pacifist and socialist publishing house. The archives of the firm are in the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (www.issg.nl). In 2004 the firm and all its backlist were purchased by Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008

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