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Taylor and Dodd	The publishing firm of Taylor and Dodd was founded by John S. Taylor and Moses Woodruff Dodd in New York in 1839. In 1840 Dodd bought out Taylor and renamed the firm M. W. Dodd. In 1870 the management of the firm was taken over by Dodd's nephew Edward S. Mead and in 1876 the firm was renamed Dodd, Mead and Company. This information is drawn from the catalogue of the archives of Dodd, Mead and Company in the University of Delaware Library. See the FOB entry for Dodd, Mead and Company.	2008
Theodore Bliss and Company	Theodore Bliss was a partner in the publishing firm of H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss (q.v.) until it was dissolved in 1862 because of Civil War financial difficulties. After the war Bliss formed his own publishing firm which he ran for several years until forced by ill health to retire. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 356.	2009
Thomas Cadell	The firm of Thomas Cadell was founded in the 1760s, and from 1793 to the 1820s traded as Cadell & Davies. Thomas Cadell became part of the Longman Group. See the FOB entry for Longman and see www.pearson.com.	2008
Thomas Murby & Co.	The geological publishers Thomas Murby & Co. were purchased during World War II by Messrs George Allen & Unwin. See the FOB entry for George Allen & Unwin, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to HarperCollins.	2006
Ticknor and Company	The publishing firm of Ticknor and Company was founded in 1885 by Benjamin H. Ticknor, Thomas B. Ticknor and George F. Godfrey, when the firm of James R. Osgood and Company (q.v.) was forced out of business for the second time. Ticknor and Company went bankrupt in 1889 and its assets were acquired by Houghton Mifflin. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 347, and see www.hmco.com.	2009
Ticknor and Fields	The publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields was founded in 1854 as the successor to Ticknor, Reed and Fields. In 1880 Ticknor and Fields merged with the Riverside Press, which was owned by Henry Houghton and George Mifflin, to form Houghton Mifflin and Company. See also the more detailed history of Ticknor and Fields given at sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile; 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 163 & 461-466; and the Company History page at www.hmco.com.	2009
Ticknor, Reed and Fields	William D. Tickner was a partner in Allen and Ticknor (1832-1834). He then ran his own publishing company in Boston from 1834. In 1843 John Reed and James T. Fields became partners in the firm of William D. Ticknor and Company, and in 1849 the firm was renamed Ticknor, Reed and Fields. Reed withdrew from the company in 1854 and it continued initially as Ticknor and Fields. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 461-466, and see the FOB entry for Ticknor and Fields.	2009
Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.	The firm of Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., the publishers of imprints such as Tor, Forge and Orb, was established by Tom Doherty in 1980. The firm was purchased by St Martin's Press in 1986. St Martin's Press has been wholly owned since 1999 by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2008
U. P. James	The brothers Joseph A. James and Uriah Pierson James founded a series of publishing, printing and bookselling firms in Cincinatti from 1831, of which the most prominent were named U. P. James and J. A. and U. P. James. U. P. James engaged in all the publishing activities of their firm. The brothers dissolved their partnership in 1854, and U. P. James continued his publishing business until he closed down his firm in 1880. He died in 1889. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 224-225.	2009
University Press of America	The book publishing firm called University Press of America was founded in 1975. The firm is now part of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.univpress.com and www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008

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