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Arrow Music Press	Arrow Music Press was founded in New York in 1938 by Marc Blitzstein, Aaron Copland, Lehman Engel and Virgil Thomson. In 1956 its catalogue was acquired by Boosey & Hawkes. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.boosey.com.	2014
Ashendene Press	The Ashendene Press was founded by C. H. St John Hornby in 1894 and remained in his personal ownership. The Ashendene Press went out of existence in 1935, after the publication of its 'Bibliography'. Hornby died in 1946.	2008
Associated Book Publishers Ltd	The publishing agglomerate Associated Book Publishers Ltd at different times included Methuen, Chapman & Hall, Spon, Eyre & Spottiswoode, Sweet & Maxwell, Routledge & Kegan Paul and Croom Helm. ABP was purchased by the Thomson Corporation in 1987. See the FOB entries for the individual component firms of ABP, for information as to which have been retained as part of the Thomson Corporation and which have been subsequently sold. See also www.thomson.com.	2007
Athene Publishing Co. Ltd	The Athene Publishing Co. of Wellingborough and London was closely associated with Thorsons in the 1950s and 1960s. By 1967 the firm was described as a subsidiary of Thorsons. See the FOB entry for Thorsons, which indicates that the firm and its rights now belong to HarperCollins. See www.harpercollins.co.uk.	2008
Atheneum Publishers	The firm of Atheneum Publishers was founded in New York in 1959. In 1978 the firm was acquired by Charles Scribner's Sons, which in turn was acquired by the US Macmillan company in 1984. See the FOB entry for Macmillan, Inc., which describes the complex arrangements for the break-up of that company after the death of Robert Maxwell. According to the Simon & Schuster website, Atheneum was included in the part of Charles Scribner's Sons which was acquired by Simon & Schuster in 1994. Scribner and Atheneum remain Simon & Schuster imprints. See www.simonsays.com.	2008
Atlantic Monthly Press	Atlantic Monthly Press was founded in 1917 as the publishing division of the Atlantic Monthly Company. In 1993 the firm was merged with Grove Press to form Grove/Atlantic Inc. See www.groveatlantic.com.	2008
Austin & Winfield Publishers, Inc.	The legal publishing firm of Austin & Winfield Publishers, Inc. is now part of University Press of America, which in turn is part of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.univpress.com and www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Authors' Publishing Company	The Authors' Publishing Company was a cooperative publishing venture begun in New York in 1873. The firm was dissolved in 1880. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 29-30.	2009
B. W. Dodge and Company	B. W. Dodge and Company was established as a publishing firm in New York around 1903. In 1911 the firm was acquired by William Rickey and Company of New York. There is a brief FOB entry for William Rickey and Company, which went out of business before World War I. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 119.	2008
Baker, Pratt and Company	The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.	2009

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