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John Muir Publications	John Muir Publications was founded in 1973 as a travel publishing firm. In 1999 Moon Publications, John Muir Publications and Foghorn Press merged to form the new firm of Avalon Travel. Avalon Travel is now part of the Perseus Books Group. See www.avalontravelbooks.com and www.perseusbooks.com.	2008
John Murray	John Murray was founded in 1768 and was the oldest independent publisher in the UK until 2001, when the firm was purchased by Hodder Headline. Hodder Headline in turn was purchased by Hachette from W. H. Smith in 2004. See www.hodderheadline.co.uk.	2006
John W. Luce and Company	John W. Luce and Company was a small publishing house founded in Boston in 1904. It was briefly first known as Robinson, Luce Company. The firm was involved in the founding of Bruce Humphries (q.v.) but subsequently resumed publishing in its own name. John W. Luce and Company ceased publishing new titles in 1947, and the firm went out of business shortly afterwards. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 73 & 214.	2008
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
Jonathan Cape	Jonathan Cape founded his nown publishing house in London in 1921. The firm was sold to Random House in 1987. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith	The firm of Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith was established in New York in 1929, largely but not entirely as a US publisher of Jonathan Cape's British titles. Harrison Smith left the firm in 1931, and it went out of business in 1932. "Its assets were put into receivership and were liquidated within a year." See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 75-77.	2008
Jonathan Page and Company	Jonathan Page and Company was the name given to the firm founded by Jonathan Cape in 1919 (Page being his mother's maiden name). In 1921 Jonathan Page and Company disappeared and was replaced by Jonathan Cape Ltd. See the FOB entry for Jonathan Cape.	2008
Joseph Aibl	Joseph Aibl founded his music publishing firm in Munich in 1825. In 1904 the firm was acquired by Universal Edition. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.uemusic.at.	2007
Joseph Knight Company	The Joseph Knight Company was purchased by Lewis Coues Page in 1896 and renamed L. C. Page & Company. L. C. Page & Company was purchased by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (later Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in 1957. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2008

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