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A. J. Valpy	The nineteenth-century printing and publishing firm of A. J. Valpy was a long-time associate of the Longman company and was eventually fully acquired by Longman. See the Longman entry in FOB and www.pearson.com.	2008
Allen and Ticknor	The bookselling and publishing firm of Allen and Ticknor was founded in Boston in 1832 by John Allen and William D. Ticknor. The firm was dissolved in 1834. Allen went on to found John Allen and Company and Ticknor ran his own firm for many years before co-founding Ticknor, Reed and Fields in 1849. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 8, and see the FOB entries for John Allen and Company and Ticknor, Reed and Fields.	2009
B. J. Brimmer Company	B. J. Brimmer was a literary publishing firm which was founded in Boston in 1921. The firm went bankrupt and out of business in 1927. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 71.	2008
Barrie & Jenkins	The firm of Barrie & Jenkins was formed in 1964 by the merger of Herbert Jenkins and Barrie & Rockliff. Barrie & Jenkins is now a subsidiary and imprint of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Bartholomew	The map publishers Bartholomew was founded in Edinburgh by John Bartholomew in 1826. In 1980 the firm was sold to Reader's Digest, who in turn sold it on to News International (now News Corporation) in 1985. See www.newscorp.com. Bartholomew now usually trades as Collins Bartholomew. See www.bartholomewmaps.com.	2008
Blackie & Son	The firm of Blackie & Son was founded by John Blackie in 1807. Most surviving Blackie rights now belong to the Pearson Group. The following quotation is taken from the pamphlet 'The firm of Blackie & Son and some of their children's books' by Morna Daniels (1999). "In 1991 the academic titles went to Blackie Academic and Professional and the school titles were acquired by Nelson and Sons, who published them under the imprint Nelson Blackie until 1995 after which they dropped the name Blackie. The children's titles were acquired by Blackie Children's Books, part of the Penguin group at 27 Wrights Lane (owned by Pearsons) but the separate imprint disappeared after 1995 and the same authors appear under the Puffin imprint. Blackie sold the Flower Fairies list to Warne, another Pearson acquisition, in 1989."	2008
BMJ Books	BMJ Books was founded as the book publishing arm of the British Medical Journal. In 2004 the firm was acquired by Blackwell Publishing (now Wiley-Blackwell). See www.blackwellpublishing.com/bmj.	2008
Calder & Boyars	Marion Boyars joined the firm of John Calder (Publishers) Limited in 1958, and in 1963 the firm became Calder & Boyars. In 1975 the partnership broke up into the two separate firms of John Calder and Marion Boyars. See www.calderpublications.com and www.marionboyars.co.uk. The Calder & Boyars archive is in the Lilly Library, Indiana University.	2008
Cassell	The firm of Cassell was founded by John Cassell in 1848. See Simon Nowell-Smith: 'The house of Cassell, 1848-1958'. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and became part of Orion Books. Following subsequent sales and reorganisations, Cassell Reference is published by Orion Books; Cassell Illustrated is part of the Octopus Group (also owned by Hachette); and Cassell Academic is part of the Continuum Group. See www.orionbooks.co.uk; www.octopus-publishing.co.uk; www.continuumbooks.com; and www.hachette.com.	2008
Charles Jones & Co.	The printing firm of Charles Jones & Co. was purchased by Messrs Taylor & Francis in 1917. Any surviving rights would belong to T&F Informa. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008

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