< Peter Davies Ltd |
Peter Davies Ltd | Peter Davies set up his own publishing company in 1926. In 1937 William Heinemann Ltd took a majority interest in the firm of Peter Davies Ltd, and the two firms were closely linked for the next forty years. In 1977 Peter Davies Ltd was fully incorporated into Heinemann. See the FOB entry for William Heinemann Ltd. | 2008 |
Peter Collin Publishing | Peter Collin Publishing now forms part of A. & C. Black, which in turn is owned by Bloomsbury. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black, and www.acblack.com. | 2014 |
Permabooks | Permabooks was established in 1948 as an imprint of the Garden City subsidiary of Doubleday (q.v.). In 1954 Doubleday sold Permabooks to Pocket Books. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 284-286 and see the FOB entry for Pocket Books, which indicates that the firm now belongs to Simon & Schuster. See www.simonsays.com. | 2008 |
Pergamon Press | Pergamon Press was founded by Robert Maxwell in 1949. In 1991 it was purchased from the Maxwell Group by the Dutch firm Elsevier NV. In 1993 Elsevier NV merged with Reed International plc to form Reed Elsevier. See www.reedelsevier.com. | 2006 |
Penrose Annual | Penrose Annual was an international annual of the graphic arts published by Lund Humphries from 1897 until 1973. See Hazel Bell: 'Personalities in publishing: John Taylor', Journal of scholarly publishing 33 (October 2001). See also the FOB entry for Lund Humphries. | 2008 |
Penn Publishing Company | The Penn Publishing Company was founded in Philadelphia in 1889 by Charles C. Shoemaker. The firm went bankrupt in 1941 and its assets were acquired by the Harlem Book Company, which restarted the firm as William Penn Publishing Corporation. This new company failed in 1943, however, and its assets were acquired by Alfred A. Knopf. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 357 and see the FOB entry for Alfred A. Knopf Inc. | 2009 |
Pendulum Publications | Pendulum Publications was a publisher of poetry and popular fiction in the post-war period. According to Steve Holland, the firm went into liquidation in 1947. See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), pp. 56 & 127. | 2008 |
Pelligrini & Cudahy | The publishing firm of Pelligrini & Cudahy was purchased by Farrar, Straus & Young in 1953. The enlarged firm became known as Farrar, Straus & Cudahy before becoming Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1964. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2008 |
Peck, White and Peck | Horace C. Peck was a partner in the publishing firm of H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss (q.v.) until it was dissolved in 1862 because of Civil War financial difficulties. After the war Peck went into partnership with his son Lorenzo and William White as Peck, White and Peck until the firm went out of business in 1867. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 356. | 2009 |
Pearn, Pollinger & Higham Ltd | The literary agency Pearn, Pollinger & Higham was founded by Laurence Pollinger and others in 1933. Its successor firms are Pollinger Ltd (founded as Laurence Pollinger Ltd in 1958) and David Higham Associates (founded 1935). Laurence Pollinger Ltd always described itself as "successor of Pearn, Pollinger & Higham". Laurence Pollinger Ltd was renamed Pollinger Ltd, and in 2014 it was purchased by Peters Fraser & Dunlop. | 2023 |
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| Peter F. Cunningham and Son | Peter F. Cunningham founded his publishing firm in Philadelphia around 1860. In 1873 the firm became Peter F. Cunningham and Son. In 1908 it was purchased by P. J. Kenedy and Sons. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 110 and see the FOB entry for P. J. Kenedy and Sons. | 2009 |
| Peter Newell | According to the catalogue of the Peter Owen papers in Reading University Library, Peter Newell was an early imprint [ca. 1950] of Peter Owen. The firm of Peter Owen Publishers remains independent. See www.peterowen.com. | 2009 |
| Philip Harris | In 1997 Nottingham Group plc and the firm of Philip Harris merged to form a new company called Novara. In 2001 Novara was purchased by Findel plc. See www.findel-education.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Philip Wellby | The firm of Philip Wellby was a publisher of occult books. In 1908 the firm was taken over by the newly formed William Rider & Co. William Rider & Co. was acquired by Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann, and Rider is now a Random House imprint. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Piatkus Books | Piatkus Books was founded as an independent publisher by Judy Piatkus in 1979. The firm is now part of the Little, Brown group. See www.piatkus.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Pica Press | Pica Press is part of the Natural History division of A. & C. Black Publishers Ltd. A. & C. Black is still trading under its own name (see www.acblack.com), but is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing. | 2008 |
| Picador | The Picador imprint was launched in 1972 by Pan Books, which at that time was owned jointly by Collins, Macmillan and Heinemann. In 1987 Pan became a wholly owned subsidiary of Macmillan. Since 1999, Macmillan has been wholly owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group, with Pan Macmillan as one of the company's principal divisions. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2006 |
| Piccadilly Novels | Piccadilly Novels was an imprint of Fiction House, begun in 1934. See the FOB entry for Fiction House, which indicates that the firm went out of existence in 1959. | 2008 |
| Pickering & Inglis | The religious publishing firm of Pickering & Inglis merged with Marshall, Morgan and Scott in the mid-1980s to form Marshall Pickering. See the FOB entry for Marshall Pickering, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to the Zondervan division of News Corporation. See www.zondervan.com.
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| Picture Post | Picture Post magazine was founded by Sir Edward Hulton in 1937 and continued until 1957, when the Hulton Archive was sold, initially to the BBC. The archive was sold by the BBC in 1988 to a private owner, and then was purchased by the Getty Communications Group in 1996. The Getty Communications Group is now known as Getty Images. See gettyimages.com. | 2007 |
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