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CVBC Services	The publishing firm of CVBC was founded in 1982 when Chatto, Bodley Head & Cape bought Virago. See the FOB entries for each of the component firms of CVBC. Virago is owned by Little, Brown. Chatto & Windus, Bodley Head and Jonathan Cape are all imprints of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
D. and J. Sadleir and Company	The publishing firm of D. and J. Sadleir and Company was founded in New York in 1837 by the brothers Denis and James Sadleir. In 1895 the rights and plates of many of the firm's most important books were sold to P. J. Kenedy and in 1912 Kenedy purchased the rest of the firm's assets. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 409 and see the FOB entry for P. J. Kenedy and Sons.	2009
D. S. Brewer	The publishing firm of D. S. Brewer was founded by Derek and Elisabeth Brewer in 1972. In 1978 the firm merged with Boydell Press to form Boydell & Brewer Ltd. See the obituary of Professor Derek Brewer, The Times, 18 November 2008, and www.boydell.co.uk.	2008
Dale Seymour Co.	Dale Seymour Co., a school supplemental publisher, was acquired by the Addison-Wesley division of Pearson in 1989. Addison-Wesley had been 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.	2008
Dime Library	The Dime Library was created by Beadle and Adams around 1859. At various times it was known as Dime Novels, Beadle's Dime Novels, Beadle's Dime Books and Beadle's Dime Publications. The assets of Beadle and Adams (including the Dime Library) were acquired by M. J. Ivers and Company in 1898. See the FOB entries for Beadle and Adams and M. J. Ivers and Company.	2009
Drawbook Series	The Drawbook Series was purchased by A. & C. Black from Pitman in 1981. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black and www.acblack.com.	2009
Duell, Sloan and Pearce	The publishing firm of Duell, Sloan and Pearce was founded in New York in 1939 by C. Halliwell Duell, Samuel Sloan and Charles A. Pearce. In 1961 the firm was acquired by Meredith Publishing Company. According to 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), Meredith retired Duell, Sloan and Pearce as an imprint in 1967. According to John Tebbel: 'A history of book publishing in the United States', Volume IV (1981), all rights in Duell, Sloan and Pearce titles were purchased from Meredith in 1969 by Hawthorn Books. See the FOB entry for Hawthorn Books, Inc., which indicates that any remaining rights in that firm would belong to the E. P. Dutton division of Penguin Books.	2008
E. & F. N. Spon	E. & F. N. Spon (also known as the Spon Press) began publishing around 1850, specialising in engineering and architectural works, and eventually became part of the Routledge Group. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com.	2006
E. J. Arnold & Son Ltd	E. J. Arnold & Son Ltd was founded in Leeds in 1863 and became a major firm of stationers, printers and publishers. In 1989 most of the firm was acquired by Nottingham Group plc and merged with Nottingham Educational Supplies to form NES Arnold. NES Arnold became part of the Novara group and in 2001 was purchased by Findel plc. See www.findel-education.co.uk and www.nesarnold.co.uk.	2008
Editions Salabert	The music publishing firm of Editions Salabert was founded by Edouard Salabert (1838-1903) and subsequently run by his son Francis Salabert. It is 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

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