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Shepard, Clark and Brown	The publishing firm of Shepard, Clark and Company was founded in Boston in 1855 by Charles A. B. Shepard, H. A. Clark and E. C. Walker. In 1857 Walker was replaced by E. W. Brown and the company was renamed Shepard, Clark and Brown. It went out of business in 1859. Charles Shepard later became one of the founders of Lee and Shepard (q.v.). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 423.	2009
Sidgwick & Jackson	Sidgwick & Jackson was founded in 1908, and was purchased by Macmillan from Lord Forte in the mid-1980s. Since 1999, Macmillan has been wholly owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group. Sidgwick & Jackson forms part of the Pan Macmillan division within Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2006
Silas Andrus and Son	Silas Andrus founded his publishing firm in Hartford, Connecticut in 1820. In the 1830s the firm was known as Andrus and Judd. Andrus went bankrupt in 1839, but in 1844 he re-formed the firm as Silas Andrus and Son and continued publishing until the firm went out of business around 1855. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 22.	2009
Silver Burdett Company	Silver Burdett Company was founded (as Silver & Co.) in the 1880s as an education publishing house. The firm was purchased in 1985-86 by Simon & Schuster. In 1998 all the Simon & Schuster educational businesses, including Silver Burdett Company, were sold to Pearson, which formed a new company called Pearson Education. The name of Silver Burdett is preserved in the Pearson imprint of Silver Burdett Ginn. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008
Simpkin Marshall Ltd	The publishing and wholesaling firm of Simpkin Marshall was founded in 1779. The firm ceased trading and declared bankruptcy in 1955. See reports in 'The Times', April-June 1955. According to 'The Times', 25 May 1955, the assets of the firm and its good will were purchased by Hatchards. See www.hatchards.co.uk.	2008
Small, Maynard and Company	The publishing firm of Small, Maynard and Company was founded in Boston in 1897 by Herbert Small and Laurens Maynard. The firm was in financial difficulty by the mid-1920s. In 1926 it sold some of its titles to Dodd, Mead and Company (q.v.) and in 1927 it was declared bankrupt and went out of business. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 426-430.	2009
Smith, Elder & Co.	The firm of Smith and Elder was founded by George Smith senior and Alexander Elder in 1816. It became Smith, Elder & Co. in 1824. In 1917 Smith, Elder & Co. was taken over by the firm of John Murray. See the FOB entry for John Murray, which is now part of the Hachette group.	2009
Society for the Publication of American Music	The Society for the Publication of American Music (SPAM) was founded by Burnet C. Tuthill in New York in 1919. In 1969 the society was dissolved and the residue of its music stock was made over to its publisher, the Theodore Presser Company. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.presser.com.	2007
Standard & Poor's	The firm of Standard & Poor's was founded as a provider of financial information and analysis. In 1966 the firm was acquired by McGraw-Hill. See www.mcgraw-hill.com and www2.standardandpoors.com.	2008
Stein & Buchheister	The music publishing firm of Stein & Buchheister was active in Detroit in the 1850s and 1860s. Its owners were Charles F. Stein and William Buchheister. The firm went out of existence around 1865, when Stein returned to Germany and Buchheister was confined in an insane asylum. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990).	2007

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