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| Brewer, Barse and Company | Brewer, Barse and Company was a publishing house in Chicago. In 1909 the firm's founder William J. Barse moved to New York and founded Barse and Hopkins. See the FOB entry for Barse and Hopkins, which indicates that the firm went bankrupt in 1932 and its stock was acquired by Grosset & Dunlap. See the FOB entry for Grosset & Dunlap, which indicates that that firm is now part of the US Penguin group (us.penguingroup.com). | 2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Carroll & Graf | The publishing firm of Carroll & Graf was founded in 1982 by Kent Carroll and Herman Graf, and subsequently became an imprint of Avalon. Following the acquisition of Avalon by the Perseus Books Group in 2007, the Carroll & Graf imprint was closed down. See www.perseusbooks.com. | 2008 |
| Chapman and Hall Ltd | The publishing firm of Chapman and Hall was founded in 1830. The firm merged with Methuen in 1938. See Arthur Waugh: 'A hundred years of publishing: being the story of Chapman & Hall Ltd' (1930). With Methuen, Chapman & Hall subsequently became part of Associated Book Publishers. See the FOB entry for Associated Book Publishers. It is believed that any surviving Chapman & Hall rights would belong to the Thomson Corporation and not to Methuen. | 2008 |
| Charles Griffin | The firm of Charles Griffin was purchased by Hodder & Stoughton from Book Publishing Development in July 1988. Hodder & Stoughton is now part of the Hachette group. See www.hodderheadline.co.uk. | 2007 |
| Charles Jones & Co. | The printing firm of Charles Jones & Co. was purchased by Messrs Taylor & Francis in 1917. Any surviving rights would belong to T&F Informa. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2008 |
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