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Robert M. DeWitt Publisher	The publishing firm of DeWitt and Davenport was founded in New York in 1848 by Robert M. DeWitt and James Davenport. The partnership was dissolved in 1856, but the firm continued as Robert M. DeWitt Publisher from 1857. DeWitt died in 1877 and the firm went out of existence. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 118.	2009
Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd	The firm of Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd was founded by Rupert Hart-Davis and David Garnett in 1946. The firm was purchased by Heinemann in 1956, then by Harcourt, Brace & World in 1962, and by the Granada Group in 1963. Finally in 1983 the firm and the imprint were purchased by William Collins Sons & Co. See the FOB entry for William Collins Sons & Co.	2008
Stein and Day Publishers	The firm of Stein and Day Publishers was founded by Sol Stein and Patricia Day in New York in 1962. In 1989 the firm was forced into bankruptcy. The principal creditor was Bookcrafters (later Sheridan Books). See Sol Stein's account of the legal proceedings in 'Bankruptcy: a feast for lawyers' (1989). The archives of Stein and Day are housed in Columbia University Library.	2008
T. & A. D. Poyser	T. & A. D. Poyser, formerly part of Elsevier Science, is now part of the Natural History division of A. & C. Black Publishers Ltd. A. & C. Black is still trading under its own name (see www.acblack.com), but is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing.	2008
Taylor and 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
Thomas Cadell	The firm of Thomas Cadell was founded in the 1760s, and from 1793 to the 1820s traded as Cadell & Davies. Thomas Cadell became part of the Longman Group. See the FOB entry for Longman and see www.pearson.com.	2008
Ticknor, Reed and Fields	William D. Tickner was a partner in Allen and Ticknor (1832-1834). He then ran his own publishing company in Boston from 1834. In 1843 John Reed and James T. Fields became partners in the firm of William D. Ticknor and Company, and in 1849 the firm was renamed Ticknor, Reed and Fields. Reed withdrew from the company in 1854 and it continued initially as Ticknor and Fields. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 461-466, and see the FOB entry for Ticknor and Fields.	2009
Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.	The firm of Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., the publishers of imprints such as Tor, Forge and Orb, was established by Tom Doherty in 1980. The firm was purchased by St Martin's Press in 1986. St Martin's Press has been wholly owned since 1999 by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2008
Turpin Distribution Services	Turpin Distribution Services was a book distribution firm closely associated with the Royal Society of Chemistry and other learned societies. In March 2000 Turpin Distribution Services was acquired by Swets & Zeitlinger. See Hazel Bell: 'Personalities in publishing: Gervase Muller', Journal of scholarly publishing (April 2002). See also the FOB entry for Swets & Zeitlinger.	2008
Verlag für die Frau	Marion Janet von Schröder founded her own publishing firm in Hamburg in 1935. The firm was originally called Verlag für die Frau, but was later renamed Marion von Schröder Verlag. The firm became part of the Axel Springer group, being part of Econ Ullstein List and then from 2000 to 2003 of Ullstein Heyne List. Ullstein Heyne List was broken up in 2003 and Marion von Schröder Verlag was sold to Bonnier AB of Stockholm. It is now an imprint of Ullstein Buchverlage. See www.bonnier.com and www.ullsteinbuchverlage.de.	2008

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