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John Day Company | The John Day Company was a publishing house founded in New York in 1926. In 1968 the firm was acquired by Intext, Inc. See the FOB entry for Intext, which indicates that any surviving rights of the John Day Company will now belong to the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. | 2008 |
John Camden Hotten | John Camden Hotten ran a printing and publishing firm which published works by Rossetti, Swinburne, Whitman and others from the 1850s to the 1870s. Hotten died in 1873, and his firm was absorbed into Chatto & Windus. See the FOB entry for Chatto & Windus Ltd. | 2008 |
John C. Winston Company | The publishing firm of John C. Winston Company was founded in Philadelphia in 1884. In 1959-1960 it merged with the firms of Henry Holt and Company and Rinehart and Company to form Holt, Rinehart and Winston. See the FOB entry for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, which indicates that the firm is now part of Harcourt Education, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com. | 2009 |
John Bradburn | John Bradburn founded his publishing firm in New York in 1861. The firm went out of existence in 1866. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 63. | 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 |
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 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 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 |
Joel Munsell | Joel Munsell founded his publishing firm in Albany, New York in 1836. After his death in 1880, the firm continued as Joel Munsell's Sons. It went out of business in 1895. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 320.
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Job Buffum | Job Buffum founded his publishing firm in Boston in 1850. The firm went out of existence around 1861. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 67.
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| John Farquharson Ltd | The literary agency John Farquharson Ltd became a partner-firm of Curtis Brown (UK) and is now a part of the Curtis Brown Group Limited. See www.curtisbrown.co.uk. | 2008 |
| John H. Hopkins and Son | John H. Hopkins founded his publishing firm in New York in 1934. Hopkins died in July 1939, and the firm had gone out of business by the time his son Irving G. Hopkins entered the army in 1942. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 191. | 2008 |
| John Kenedy and Son | John Kenedy founded his publishing firm in Baltimore in 1826. In 1838 the business moved to New York. John Kenedy died in 1866. The firm was then run by his son Patrick John Kenedy, first as P. J. Kenedy (1866-1904) and then as P. J. Kenedy and Sons. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 237-239, and see the FOB entry for P. J. Kenedy and Sons. | 2009 |
| John Lehmann Ltd | John Lehmann left the Hogarth Press and set up his own firm in 1946. John Lehmann Ltd was always in financial difficulties and in 1947 Purnell & Sons took over full financial control, with John Lehmann as salaried managing director. In 1952, financial disagreements between Purnell and Lehmann led to the closure of the firm. See the entry in WATCH for John Lehmann. Any surviving rights, however, are likely to have passed to Purnell & Sons. | 2006 |
| John Long Ltd | The publishing firm of John Long Ltd had a long association with Hutchinson and was eventually absorbed into the Hutchinson Group. In the 1920s and 1930s John Long Ltd was "incorporated with Hutchinson & Co.". By the 1940s it was described as "member of the Hutchinson Group", and by the 1960s had become "an imprint of the Hutchinson Group". The name of John Long Ltd ceased to be used around 1979. See the FOB entry for Hutchinson, which indicates that the firm is now part of Random House UK, which in turn is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
| John Muir Publications | John Muir Publications was founded in 1973 as a travel publishing firm. In 1999 Moon Publications, John Muir Publications and Foghorn Press merged to form the new firm of Avalon Travel. Avalon Travel is now part of the Perseus Books Group. See www.avalontravelbooks.com and www.perseusbooks.com.
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| John Murray | John Murray was founded in 1768 and was the oldest independent publisher in the UK until 2001, when the firm was purchased by Hodder Headline. Hodder Headline in turn was purchased by Hachette from W. H. Smith in 2004. See www.hodderheadline.co.uk. | 2006 |
| John W. Luce and Company | John W. Luce and Company was a small publishing house founded in Boston in 1904. It was briefly first known as Robinson, Luce Company. The firm was involved in the founding of Bruce Humphries (q.v.) but subsequently resumed publishing in its own name. John W. Luce and Company ceased publishing new titles in 1947, and the firm went out of business shortly afterwards. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 73 & 214. | 2008 |
| John West Folsom | The publishing firm of Draper and Folsom was founded in Boston in 1778 by Edward Draper and John West Folsom. The partnership ended in 1783 and the firm continued as John West Folsom until it closed in 1801. Folsom died in 1825. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 164. | 2009 |
| Jonas Davis | Richard Taylor, the founder of the firm which became Taylor & Francis, was apprenticed to the printer Jonas Davis in 1797. From 1798 Davis was the printer of 'Philosophical Magazine'. In 1800 Davis sold his business to Taylor's father. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2006 |
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