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D. Appleton & Company	Daniel Appleton founded his firm as an importer of books around 1813 and published his first book in Boston in 1831. In 1933 the firm merged with The Century Company to form Appleton-Century and in 1948, after a further merger with F. S. Crofts Company, became Appleton-Century-Crofts. See the FOB entry for Appleton-Century-Crofts, which indicates that part of the firm has passed into the ownership of Pearson Education and part into the ownership of the Academic Learning Company.	2009
D. C. Heath and Company	The educational and academic publishing firm of D. C. Heath and Company, based in Lexington, Massachusetts, was acquired by the Houghton Mifflin Company in 1995. See www.hmco.com.	2006
D. F. Robinson and Company	The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.	2009
Dale Seymour Co.	Dale Seymour Co., a school supplemental publisher, was acquired by the Addison-Wesley division of Pearson in 1989. Addison-Wesley had been purchased by Pearson plc in 1988, and still forms part of the Pearson Group. For a time the divison within Pearson was known both as Longman Addison Wesley and as Addison Wesley Longman, but it has now reverted to Addison-Wesley. See www.pearson.com.	2008
Darton & Harvey	The publishing firm of Darton & Harvey was established in London in 1791. At various times in the next fifty years, it was known as Harvey & Darton and as Darton, Harvey & Darton. The business was sold to Robert Yorke Clarke in 1847 and it closed in 1852.	2008
DeWolfe, Fiske and Company	The publishing firm of DeWolfe, Fiske and Company was founded in Boston in 1880 by Perez Morton DeWolfe and Charles F. Fiske, as the successor firm to Albert W. Lovering (q.v.). From 1905 the firm was renamed DeWolfe and Fiske, ceased publishing, and became a retail and wholesale book business. The firm later became a subsidiary of Chadwick-Miller Inc., of Canton, Massachusetts. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 119.	2009
Diehl, Landau and Pettit	Diehl, Landau and Pettit was founded in 1929 as the successor firm to R. F. Fenno and Company. The firm subsequently became the Landau Book Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 161, which names Louis Landau as the President of the firm in 1986.	2009
Dix, Edwards and Company	The publishing firm of Dix, Edwards and Company was founded in New York in 1854 by Augustus J. Dix and Arthur T. Edwards. The firm went out of business in 1857. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 125.	2009
Dodd, Mead and Company	The predecessor firm of Dodd, Mead and Company was Taylor and Dodd (q.v.). From the 1870s the firm was run by Edward S. Mead and adopted the name of Dodd, Mead and Company. The following quotation is from the catalogue of the archives of Dodd, Mead and Company in the University of Delaware Library: "The business operations of Dodd, Mead and Company were suspended in March 1989 pending the outcome of arbitration with its fulfillment house, Metro Services Inc. By the end of 1990 the company ceased publications."	2009
Doubleday & Company	In 1897 Frank Nelson Doubleday and Samuel McClure founded the publishing house of Doubleday & McClure. From 1900 the firm became Doubleday, Page & Company. In 1927 Doubleday merged with the George H. Doran Company and became Doubleday, Doran. The firm was renamed Doubleday & Company in 1946. Doubleday & Company was purchased by Bertelsmann in 1986, and is now a division of Random House. See www.randomhouse.com/doubleday and www.bertelsmann.com.	2009

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