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| J. W. Arrowsmith | The publishing firm of J. W. Arrowsmith flourished in Bristol from 1883 to 1914. Its greatest publishing success was 'Three men in a boat' by Jerome K. Jerome (1889). See John R. Turner: 'Conditions for success as a provincial publisher in late nineteenth-century England', Publishing history 41 (1997). The firm declined after the death of J. W. Arrowsmith himself in 1913. In 1924 it moved from Bristol to London; it returned to Bristol in 1938, and closed down in 1949. Rights in all the J. W. Arrowsmith titles were then sold to J. M. Dent. See the FOB entry for J. M. Dent. | 2008 |
| J. W. Parker, Son and Bourne | The firm of J. W. Parker, Son and Bourne was taken over by Longman in 1863. See the FOB entry for Longman, which is now part of the Pearson Group, and www.pearson.com. | 2008 |
| J. W. Wilcox & Follett Company | The bookselling firm of C. M. Barnes was renamed the C. M. Barnes - Wilcox Company in 1908, when John Wilcox became the primary shareholder. In 1917 management of the firm was taken over by C. W. Follett and it was renamed J. W. Wilcox & Follett Company. After the death of John Wilcox in 1923, the firm became the Follett Company. It is now the Follett Corporation. See www.follett.com. | 2008 |
| James Munroe and Company | The bookselling and publishing firm of Munroe and Nichols was founded in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early 1830s by James Munroe and George Nichols. From 1835 the firm became known as James Munroe and Company. Munroe died in 1861 and the firm went out of business in 1861 or 1862. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 319. | 2009 |
| James R. Osgood and Company | James R. Osgood and Company was founded in Boston in 1871 as a successor firm to Fields, Osgood and Company (q.v.). The firm was in financial difficulty in 1878 and was forced to merge with Hurt and Houghton to form Houghton, Osgood and Company (q.v.). James R. Osgood and Company was re-formed in 1880 and continued until it went out of business in 1885. The firm's debts were covered by the new firm of Ticknor and Company (q.v.). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 341-347. | 2009 |
| Jason Aronson Publishers, Inc. | Dr Jason Aronson founded his own publishing firm in 1966. In 2003 the firm was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, which continues to use the name as an imprint. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com. | 2008 |
| John Allen and Company | John Allen founded his bookselling and publishing firm in Boston in 1834. The firm relocated to New York in 1837 and went out of business around 1849. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 8. | 2009 |
| John B. Alden | John B. Alden began his bookselling and publishing business in New York in the 1870s. He founded a number of firms, several of which went bankrupt. His last two enterprises bore the names of John B. Alden Publisher (1895-1905) and Alden Brothers Publishers (1905-1908). In 1908 he retired and closed down his firm. He died in 1924. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 6. | 2009 |
| John Babcock and Son | John Babcock joined the printing, publishing and bookselling firm of his father Elisha Babcock in Hartford, Connecticut in 1795, and the firm soon began to use the imprint of John Babcock. From 1811 the firm moved to New Haven and became known as John Babcock and Son. The firm ceased publishing around 1824. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 31. | 2009 |
| John Bioren | John Bioren began his publishing career with the firm of Mountford, Bioren and Company in Philadelphia in 1794. In 1795 he went into partnership with Patrick Madan to form Bioren and Madan, and from 1797 he traded under his own name only. Bioren died in 1835 and his firm went out of business. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 52. | 2009 |
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