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Seizin Press	Seizin Press was founded in London in 1928 by Laura Riding and Robert Graves. The Press was moved to Deya, Mallorca in 1929. On the break-up of their partnership in 1939, Riding ceded all rights in Seizin Press to Graves. Graves occasionally used the Seizin imprint after his return to Mallorca in 1946. See the WATCH entry for Robert Graves.	2006
Senart	The French music publishing firm of Senart was founded by Maurice Senart in 1908. In 1941 the entire Senart catalogue was bought by Editions Salabert, now part of Editions Durand-Salabert-Eschig. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.durand-salabert-eschig.com.	2007
Shakespeare Head Press	The Shakespeare Head Press was founded by A. H. Bullen and Frank Sidgwick in 1904. Following Bullen's death in 1920, the firm was purchased by the Oxford publishers Blackwell, and the imprint is still occasionally used by the Blackwell organisation. See www.blackwellpublishing.com (this website remains current after Blackwell became part of Wiley in February 2007).	2008
Shapiro-Remick & Company	The music publishing firm of Shapiro-Remick & Company was established in New York City in 1902 by Maurice Shapiro and Jerome H. Remick. The firm was dissolved in 1906, and rights in its catalogue passed to the new firm of Jerome H. Remick & Co. See the FOB entry for Jerome H. Remick, which indicates that Shapiro-Remick and the Remick Music Corporation are now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2007
Sheed & Ward Ltd	The Roman Catholic publishing house of Sheed & Ward was founded by Francis Joseph Sheed and Maisie Ward in 1926. The firm is now in the ownership of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, which continues to use the name as an imprint. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Sheldon and Company	In 1853 Smith Sheldon purchased the publishing firm of Lamport, Blakeman and Law and renamed it Sheldon, Lamport and Blakeman. The firm later traded as Sheldon, Blakeman and Company, Sheldon and Company and I. E. Sheldon, before going out of business in 1898. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 420.	2009
Shepard, Clark and Brown	The publishing firm of Shepard, Clark and Company was founded in Boston in 1855 by Charles A. B. Shepard, H. A. Clark and E. C. Walker. In 1857 Walker was replaced by E. W. Brown and the company was renamed Shepard, Clark and Brown. It went out of business in 1859. Charles Shepard later became one of the founders of Lee and Shepard (q.v.). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 423.	2009
Sidgwick & Jackson	Sidgwick & Jackson was founded in 1908, and was purchased by Macmillan from Lord Forte in the mid-1980s. Since 1999, Macmillan has been wholly owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group. Sidgwick & Jackson forms part of the Pan Macmillan division within Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2006
Sidney's Press	Sidney's Press was founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1802 by Sidney Babcock. The firm was in financial difficulties by 1850, and ceased publishing. For about ten years Sidney's Press continued as a bookselling firm before it went out of existence in 1860. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 424.	2009
Silas Andrus and Son	Silas Andrus founded his publishing firm in Hartford, Connecticut in 1820. In the 1830s the firm was known as Andrus and Judd. Andrus went bankrupt in 1839, but in 1844 he re-formed the firm as Silas Andrus and Son and continued publishing until the firm went out of business around 1855. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 22.	2009

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