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John West Folsom	The publishing firm of Draper and Folsom was founded in Boston in 1778 by Edward Draper and John West Folsom. The partnership ended in 1783 and the firm continued as John West Folsom until it closed in 1801. Folsom died in 1825. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 164.	2009
Jonas Davis	Richard Taylor, the founder of the firm which became Taylor & Francis, was apprenticed to the printer Jonas Davis in 1797. From 1798 Davis was the printer of 'Philosophical Magazine'. In 1800 Davis sold his business to Taylor's father. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2006
Kraus Curriculum Development Library	Kraus Curriculum Development Library was founded in 1981 and developed into KCDLonline. In 2008 the firm was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Lemon, Unna & Durbridge	The literary agency Lemon, Unna & Durbridge was incorporated by its founder Stephen Durbridge into the agency called The Agency in 1995. See www.theagency.co.uk.	2008
Librairie Dorbon-aîné	Founded in 1900 by Louis Dorbon, Librairie Dorbon-aîné actively sold antiquarian books and published contemporary books between 1900 and 1939. Beyond 1949 no accurate record exists detailing the closure of the firm. A collection of business records and correspondence chronicling the work of Louis Dorbon’s bookselling firm and manuscripts and proofs of works published by Librairie Dorbon-aîné is housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025
Lothrop Publishing Company	Lothrop Publishing Company was founded as D. Lothrop and Company in Boston in 1868. In 1904 the firm went bankrupt and was purchased by the publishing firm of Lee and Shepard. See the FOB entry for Lee and Shepard and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 250-252.	2009
M. Doolady	M. Doolady established a publishing firm in New York, and published his first book in 1860. He appears to have ceased publishing around 1873. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 137.	2009
M. W. Dodd	The publishing firm of Taylor and Dodd was founded by John S. Taylor and Moses Woodruff Dodd in New York in 1839. In 1840 Dodd bought out Taylor and renamed the firm M. W. Dodd. In 1870 the management of the firm was taken over by Dodd's nephew Edward S. Mead and in 1876 the firm was renamed Dodd, Mead and Company. This information is drawn from the catalogue of the archives of Dodd, Mead and Company in the University of Delaware Library. See the FOB entry for Dodd, Mead and Company.	2008
Macgibbon and Kee Ltd	The publishing firm of Macgibbon and Kee was founded in London in 1949. The firm developed close links with Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd (q.v.) and, like Hart-Davis, was acquired by Granada Publishing (in 1968). In 1972 Granada created Hart-Davis, Macgibbon Ltd, although Macgibbon and Kee remained registered as a company. The archives of Macgibbon and Kee are in the University of Glasgow Library, and the following sentence is taken from their catalogue: "The company appears to have been dissolved in c.1983 when Granada sold its publishing interests to the Scottish publishers William Collins, Sons & Co Ltd, Glasgow." See the FOB entry for William Collins and www.newscorp.com.	2014
Macmillan	Macmillan was founded by the brothers Alexander and Daniel Macmillan in 1843. Since 1999, Macmillan has been wholly owned by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com and see also the separate FOB entry for Macmillan Inc., formerly the US subsidiary of Macmillan.	2008

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