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| Constable & Co. Ltd | The firm of Constable & Co. was founded in 1890 by Archibald Constable, grandson of the Archibald Constable whose firm failed in 1826. The firm remained independent and in 1999 merged with Robinson Publishing Ltd to form Constable & Robinson. See www.constablerobinson.com. | 2006 |
| Copeland and Day | The publishing firm of Copeland and Day was founded in Boston around 1892 by Herbert Copeland and Frederick Holland Day. The firm went out of business in 1899 and its titles still in print were sold off, mostly to Small, Maynard and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 104-106 and see the FOB entry for Small, Maynard and Company. | 2009 |
| Courier Printing & Publishing Company Limited | The Courier Printing & Publishing Company is a long-established firm in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. The firm is now part of the Northcliffe Newspapers Group Limited. See www.thisisnorthcliffe.co.uk. | 2007 |
| Coventry & Hollier | The music publishing firm of Coventry & Hollier was active in London from about 1833 to 1849. Some of the firm's business was acquired by Novello in 1849, after which the firm traded briefly as Charles Coventry, before selling much of the rest of the business to Novello in 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 |
| Coward-McCann Publishing Company | Coward-McCann Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1928 by Thomas R. Coward and James A. McCann. In 1936 the firm became an autonomous subsidiary of G. P. Putnam's Sons (later Putnam Berkley). John Geoghegan joined the firm in 1956, and in 1971 it was renamed Coward, McCann and Geoghegan. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 96-99, and the obituary of John Geoghegan, 'New York Times', 30 December 1999. The firm's autonomy declined after Geoghegan's resignation in 1981, and Putnam Berkley ceased using the Coward-McCann name around 1984. See the FOB entry for G. P. Putnam's Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of the Penguin Group, and owned by Pearson. | 2008 |
| Creative Age Press | Creative Age Press was founded in New York in 1941. The firm was purchased by Farrar, Straus and Young (later Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in 1951. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2008 |
| Crosby Lockwood & Co. | The publishing firm of Lockwood & Co was established by Mark Lockwood in the early nineteenth century. On his death in the 1850s his son Crosby Lockwood took over the running of the company and changed the name of the firm to Crosby Lockwood & Co. Crosby Lockwood remained an independent firm until it was acquired by Granada Publishing in 1972. See the FOB entry for Granada Publishing, which indicates that any surviving rights will now be owned by the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. | 2006 |
| Cummings and Hilliard | The publishing firm of Cummings and Hilliard was founded in Boston in 1812 by Jacob Abbott Cummings and William Hilliard. From 1823 the firm was known as Cummings, Hilliard and Company. Cummings died in 1823. In 1827 Harrison Gray became a partner and the firm was renamed Hilliard, Gray and Company. In 1843 the firm was dissolved and most of its assets were acquired by James Munroe and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 110 & 203, and see the FOB entry for James Munroe and Company. | 2009 |
| Cupples and Leon | The publishing house of Cupples and Leon was founded in 1902. The firm was acquired by Platt and Munk in 1956, and Platt and Munk was in turn acquired by Grosset & Dunlap in 1977. In 1982 Grosset & Dunlap was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons (of the Putnam Berkley Group). Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com and the company history pages of us.penguingroup.com. | 2008 |
| D. and J. Sadleir and Company | The publishing firm of D. and J. Sadleir and Company was founded in New York in 1837 by the brothers Denis and James Sadleir. In 1895 the rights and plates of many of the firm's most important books were sold to P. J. Kenedy and in 1912 Kenedy purchased the rest of the firm's assets. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 409 and see the FOB entry for P. J. Kenedy and Sons. | 2009 |
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