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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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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| 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 |
| Jonathan Cape | Jonathan Cape founded his nown publishing house in London in 1921. The firm was sold to Random House in 1987. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith | The firm of Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith was established in New York in 1929, largely but not entirely as a US publisher of Jonathan Cape's British titles. Harrison Smith left the firm in 1931, and it went out of business in 1932. "Its assets were put into receivership and were liquidated within a year." See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 75-77. | 2008 |
| Jonathan Page and Company | Jonathan Page and Company was the name given to the firm founded by Jonathan Cape in 1919 (Page being his mother's maiden name). In 1921 Jonathan Page and Company disappeared and was replaced by Jonathan Cape Ltd. See the FOB entry for Jonathan Cape. | 2008 |
| Joseph Aibl | Joseph Aibl founded his music publishing firm in Munich in 1825. In 1904 the firm was acquired by Universal Edition. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.uemusic.at. | 2007 |
| Joseph Knight Company | The Joseph Knight Company was purchased by Lewis Coues Page in 1896 and renamed L. C. Page & Company. L. C. Page & Company was purchased by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (later Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in 1957. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2008 |
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