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Walter H. Baker Company	George M. Baker purchased the play division of Herbert Sweet and Company (q.v.) in 1872 and renamed the firm George M. Baker and Company. The firm was managed by Baker's brother Walter H. Baker, and was renamed the Walter H. Baker Company in 1892. The firm now trades as Baker's Plays. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 35-37, and see www.bakersplays.com.	2009
Way and Williams	The publishing firm of Way and Williams was founded in Chicago in 1895 by Washington Irving Way and Chauncey L. Williams. The firm went out of business in 1898, when its assets were acquired by Herbert S. Stone and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 477-478, and see the FOB entry for Herbert S. Stone and Company.	2009
Weber & Field	The music hall production and publishing firm of Weber & Field flourished in the 1890s, after which its publishing list was purchased by M. Witmark & Sons. See the FOB entry for M. Witmark & Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2007
Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Weidenfeld & Nicolson was founded by George Weidenfeld and Nigel Nicolson in 1949. The following passage is taken from the Orion website (http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/history.aspx): "The Orion Publishing Group Limited was founded in 1991. Soon after incorporation, Orion began negotiations with Lord Weidenfeld and acquired Weidenfeld & Nicolson as the nucleus of a new, entrepreneurial publishing group." The Orion Publishing Group was bought by Hachette in 1998, but continues to trade under its own name, with titles still appearing under the imprint of Weidenfeld & Nicolson.	2008
West, Johnston and Company	The publishing firm of West, Johnston and Company was founded in Richmond, Virginia in 1860 by John Montgomery West and Thomas Johnston. For its first six years the firm was known as West and Johnston. The firm was in financial difficulty in the 1890s and went bankrupt in 1896. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 482.	2009
Western Publishing Company	Western Printing and Lithographing Company was founded in Racine, Wisconsin around 1910. In 1916 Western acquired the Hamming-Whitman Company (q.v.) and in 1960 changed its name to Western Publishing Company. See the FOB entry for Golden Books, its best known imprint. In the 1980s Western Publishing changed its name to Golden Books Family Entertainment. In 1999 the firm filed for bankruptcy. In 2001 all the publishing assets of the firm were acquired by Random House, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/golden.	2008
Whaley and Company	The Irish printer and publisher George Roberts briefly used the imprint of Whaley and Company, before he founded the firm of Maunsel in 1905. See the FOB entry for Maunsel and Roberts.	2008
White, Stokes and Allen	The publishing firm of White, Stokes and Allen was founded in New York in 1883 by Joel Parker White, Frederick B. Stokes and Frank Allen. The firm went bankrupt in 1890. See sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile.	2009
Wicks and Wilson Limited	The firm of Wicks and Wilson Limited was founded in Hampshire, UK, in 1973. In 2011 it was acquired by the Crowley Company. See www.thecrowleycompany.com.	2011
William Morrow & Company	William Morrow founded his publishing company in 1926. The firm remained independent until 1981, when it was acquired by the Hearst Corporation. In 1999 it was sold by Hearst to News Corporation, where it was incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com.	2008

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