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Vaughan and Gomme	The publishing firm of Vaughan and Gomme was founded in New York in 1914 by Donald Vaughan and Laurence James Gomme. Vaughan withdrew from the firm in 1914, and it continued as Gomme and Marshall (q.v.) and then as Laurence James Gomme, before Gomme closed the firm and ended his publishing career in 1917. Lawrence James Gomme was born in 1882 and died in 1974. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 163.	2008
Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta	Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta is part of the VCH group, which in turn is part of Wiley. See www.wiley-vch.de.	2008
Victor Adams & Co.	The imprint of Victor Adams & Co. flourished in the 1870s and was one of many imprints used by the complex of firms usually described as Beadle and Adams (q.v.). See the FOB entry for Beadle and Adams; the Lucile entry at sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile/publishers/adamsvictor/adamsvictor.htm; and www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp.	2009
W. A. Benjamin Company	The science publisher W. A. Benjamin was acquired by Addison-Wesley in 1970. Addison-Wesley was 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.	2006
W. A. Leary and Company	W. A. Leary founded his bookselling and publishing business in Philadelphia in 1836. The publishing side of the firm was discontinued in the late 1860s, although Leary's Book store continued for another hundred years before going out of business in 1968. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 248.	2009
W. H. & L. Collingridge Ltd	The publishing firm of W. H. & L. Collingridge Ltd was founded in or before the 1840s, initially publishing religious works, but later specialising in horticulture and botany. In the 1960s the firm was purchased by Paul Hamlyn, and later became part of the Hamlyn Group and the Octopus Group. See the FOB entries for Hamlyn and Octopus Publishing Group, and see www.octopus-publishing.co.uk.	2008
W. H. Allen	W. H. Allen is now part of Virgin Books. In the early nineteenth century, W. H. Allen specialised in books on Indian subjects, but gradually the firm developed into a general publisher. W. H. Allen became a Howard & Wyndham company, but Howard & Wyndham floated off the company in 1984, retaining a 38 per cent share. The W. H. Allen publishing house acquired Virgin Books in 1986, but was then acquired by the Virgin parent company from 1987 (67 per cent purchased) to 1991, when the company was renamed Virgin Publishing. See the FOB entry for Virgin Books.	2009
W. H. Freeman and Company	The publishing firm of W. H. Freeman and Company was founded by William H. Freeman in 1946. In 1986 W. H. Freeman was acquired by the Holtzbrinck group, and in 1996 it was formed into a division with Bedford Books, St Martin's Press and Worth Publishers. See www.bfwpub.com.	2009
W. J. Watt and Company	William J. Watt founded his own publishing firm in New York in 1908, publishing mostly fiction. The firm went out of business in 1928 and Watt died in 1948. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 375.	2008
W. L. Allison	William L. Allison founded his publishing firm in New York in 1869, publishing low-price books and reference works, including the Arundale Edition. The firm went out of business in 1892. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 9.	2009

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