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Patrick O'Shea	Patrick O'Shea founded his publishing firm in New York in 1854. The firm went out of existence in 1906, the year of O'Shea's death. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 347.	2009
Patrick Stephens Ltd	Patrick Stephens Ltd was purchased by Thorsons in 1984. Thorsons was purchased by William Collins in 1989. William Collins became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990, and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers. See www.newscorp.com. Until 1991 Patrick Stephens imprints were published from the Thorsons address in Wellingborough. From 1991 to the present, however, Patrick Stephens has resumed independent publishing from an address in Sparkford, Somerset.	2008
Pavilion Books	The publishing firm of Pavilion Books was founded in 1981. It became an imprint of Chrysalis Books, and since 2005 has been an imprint of Anova Books. See www.anovabooks.com.	2007
Payne-Gallway	Payne-Gallway was established in Ipswich in 1998 by Pat and Oliver Heathcote. In 2005 the firm was purchased by the Harcourt Education International division of Reed Elsevier. Harcourt Education International was sold by Reed Elsevier in 2007 to Pearson. See www.pearson.com and www.heinemann.co.uk.	2008
Payson and Clarke	The publishing firm of Payson and Clarke was founded by William Farquhar Payson and James L. Clarke in New York in 1924. Clarke sold his share of the company in 1927 and Payson left in 1928, leaving the firm in the hands of Edward K. Warren and Joseph Brewer. In 1930 the firm was renamed Brewer and Warren and in 1932 Brewer and Warren was purchased by Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace & Company, which traces the firm to the formation of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2008, and see the account of Payson and Clarke in 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 277.	2008
Peachpit Press	Peachpit Press, a computer trade publisher, was acquired by Addison-Wesley in 1994. Addison-Wesley was purchased by Pearson plc in 1988, and still forms part of the Pearson Group. For a time the divison within Pearson was known both as Longman Addison Wesley and as Addison Wesley Longman, but it has now reverted to Addison-Wesley. See www.pearson.com.	2006
Pear Tree Press	The Pear Tree Press was founded by James Guthrie in 1899 and remained in his personal ownership. The Pear Tree Press went out of existence when James Guthrie died in 1952.	2006
Pearn, Pollinger & Higham Ltd	The literary agency Pearn, Pollinger & Higham was founded by Laurence Pollinger and others in 1933. Its successor firms are Pollinger Ltd (founded as Laurence Pollinger Ltd in 1958) and David Higham Associates (founded 1935). Laurence Pollinger Ltd always described itself as "successor of Pearn, Pollinger & Higham". Laurence Pollinger Ltd was renamed Pollinger Ltd, and in 2014 it was purchased by Peters Fraser & Dunlop.	2023
Peck, White and Peck	Horace C. Peck was a partner in the publishing firm of H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss (q.v.) until it was dissolved in 1862 because of Civil War financial difficulties. After the war Peck went into partnership with his son Lorenzo and William White as Peck, White and Peck until the firm went out of business in 1867. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 356.	2009
Pelligrini & Cudahy	The publishing firm of Pelligrini & Cudahy was purchased by Farrar, Straus & Young in 1953. The enlarged firm became known as Farrar, Straus & Cudahy before becoming Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1964. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2008

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