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Butterworths | The legal publishing firm of Butterworths was founded by Henry Butterworth in 1818. Butterworths was absorbed into the International Publishing Corporation in 1965, and sold by IPC to the Reed Group in 1970. Butterworths is now a division of Reed Elsevier, also trading as LexisNexis Butterworths. See www.butterworths.com. | 2006 |
Budd Music Corporation | The Budd Music Corporation was the personal company of the songwriter and lyricist Buddy Kaye (1918-2002). In 1998 the Budd Music Corporation was purchased by Sony/ATV Music Publishing. See www.sonyatv.com. | 2007 |
Buckle Down Publishing | Buckle Down Publishing was founded as an educational publishing firm in Iowa City in 1982. In 2004 the firm was acquired by Haights Cross Communications, Inc., and incorporated as a subsidiary into Triumph Learning LLC. See www.haightscross.com. | 2008 |
Brunner-Routledge | Brunner-Routledge is an imprint of Routledge Mental Health, which in turn is part of the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.brunner-routledge.com, www.brunner-routledge.co.uk and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2009 |
Bruce Humphries | The publishing firm of Bruce Humphries was founded in Boston in 1930 when a number of local firms merged, including the Poet Lore Company and the Four Seas Company. In 1971 the firm was acquired by Branden Press. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 73-75; the FOB entry for Branden Press; and www.brandenbooks.com. | 2008 |
Brown-ROA Publishers | The religious publishing house of Brown-ROA Publishers was acquired by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1994. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace. In 1999 Brown-ROA changed its name to Harcourt Religion Publishers, and Harcourt Religion is now part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com and www.harcourtreligion.com. | 2008 |
Browne and Nolan | The Irish publishing firm of Browne and Nolan was renamed Longmans, Browne and Nolan around 1969. Longmans, Browne and Nolan was incorporated into the Educational Company of Ireland (EDCO) around 1972. EDCO became a Jefferson Smurfit company and is now part of the Smurfit Kappa Group. See www.edco.ie and www.smurfitkappa.com. | 2009 |
Broderip & Wilkinson | After the bankruptcy of the firm of Longman & Broderip in 1798, Francis Broderip and C. Wilkinson established the music publishing firm of Broderip & Wilkinson and reissued many of the Longman & Broderip titles. Francis Broderip died in 1807 and the firm continued briefly as Wilkinson & Co., before all its stock and plates were purchased by Thomas Preston. The Preston firm was purchased by Coventry & Hollier around 1834, and much of the business of Coventry & Hollier was purchased by Novello in 1849 and 1851. Novello is now part of Chester Music and Novello & Company. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.chesternovello.com. | 2007 |
Broderbund | Broderbund is a specialist software firm which was acquired by Riverdeep in 2002. See the FOB entry for Riverdeep, which indicates that the firm is now part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com.
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Brockhampton Press | The Brockhampton Press was founded as the Brockhampton Book Company in Leicester in the 1940s. Brockhampton Press is now part of the Caxton Publishing Group, and the imprint is still in use. See www.caxtonpublishing.com. | 2009 |
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| C. M. Barnes - Wilcox Company | Charles M. Barnes opened his first book store in Wheaton, Illinois in 1873. In 1908 his firm evolved into the C. M. Barnes - Wilcox Company, 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 |
| C. V. Mosby Company | The C. V. Mosby Company was founded in St Louis, Missouri, in 1906. In 1967 Mosby was acquired by Times Mirror, who sold the firm to Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1998. The Harcourt Group was in turn purchased by Reed Elsevier in 2001. After the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008 Mosby remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com. | 2008 |
| C. W. Bardeen | Charles William Bardeen was a partner in the publishing firm of Davis, Bardeen and Company from 1874 to 1880 and then the owner of the successor firm of C. W. Bardeen from 1880 until it went out of business in 1922. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 39. | 2009 |
| C. W. Daniel Company Ltd | C. W. Daniel Company Ltd was founded in 1902 as a Tolstoyan, pacifist and socialist publishing house. The archives of the firm are in the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (www.issg.nl). In 2004 the firm and all its backlist were purchased by Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Calder & Boyars | Marion Boyars joined the firm of John Calder (Publishers) Limited in 1958, and in 1963 the firm became Calder & Boyars. In 1975 the partnership broke up into the two separate firms of John Calder and Marion Boyars. See www.calderpublications.com and www.marionboyars.co.uk. The Calder & Boyars archive is in the Lilly Library, Indiana University. | 2008 |
| California Test Bureau | The California Test Bureau was founded in 1926 as a developer of educational testing systems. In 1965 the firm was acquired by McGraw-Hill. See www.mcgraw-hill.com. | 2008 |
| Camelot Classics | Camelot Classics was a series (edited by Ernest Rhys) issued by the Newcastle-upon-Tyne firm of Walter Scott from 1886. See the FOB entry for Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd. | 2008 |
| Canterbury Poets | Canterbury Poets was a series issued by the Newcastle-upon-Tyne firm of Walter Scott from 1884. See the FOB entry for Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd. | 2008 |
| Capstone Press | Capstone Press was founded in 1990 as a publisher of children's nonfiction books. From 2007 Capstone Press has become the principal imprint of the Capstone Publishers group of Mankato, Minnesota - which also includes Compass Point Books, Picture Window Books, Stone Arch Books, Children's Library Resources and Red Brick Learning. See www.capstonepub.com. | 2008 |
| Capstone Publishing Ltd | Capstone Publishing Ltd was founded in Oxford, UK, as a publisher of professional business and management books. The firm has no connection with Capstone Publishers of Mankato, Minnesota. In 2001 Capstone Publishing Ltd was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
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