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William Rickey and Company	William Rickey and Company was a publishing company established in New York before World War I. The firm went out of business around 1913. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 119.	2008
William Rider & Son	The publishing firm of William Rider & Son was founded in 1908. The firm was acquired by Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann, and Rider is now a Random House imprint. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
William S. Damrell	The publishing firm of Ford and Damrell was founded in Boston in 1833 by John Ford and William S. Damrell. In 1835 the partners separated and Damrell ran his own firm. From 1837 to 1848 the firm traded as Whipple and Damrell, before reverting to William S. Damrell and occasionally Damrell and Moore. The firm went out of business in 1861. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 113.	2009
William Sloane Associates	The publishing firm of William Sloane Associates was founded in New York in 1946. In 1952 the firm was acquired by William Morrow & Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 347-349, and see the FOB entry for William Morrow & Company, which indicates that in 1999 the firm was acquired by News Corporation and incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com.	2008
William Wood and Company	Samuel Wood founded his bookselling and publishing firm in New York in 1804. The firm was subsequently managed by his sons and grandsons, becoming Samuel Wood and Sons and then Samuel S. and William Wood, before the name of William Wood and Company was adopted in 1863. In 1932 William Wood and Company was purchased by Williams and Wilkins of Baltimore. Williams and Wilkins is now part of the Lippincott Williams and Wilkins division of Wolters Kluwer Health. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 497-498 and see www.lww.com.	2009
Williams & Norgate	The publishing firm of Williams & Norgate was founded by Sydney Williams and Frederick Norgate and flourished from the 1830s to the 1950s. According to 'Publishing and bookselling' by Frank Arthur Mumby and Ian Norrie (5th ed., 1974, p. 472) the firm was then acquired by Ernest Benn. See the FOB entry for Ernest Benn, which indicates that it was acquired by A. & C. Black in 1984.	2009
Williams and Wilkins	John Williams began printing around 1885, and subsequently founded the publishing firm of Williams and Wilkins with Henry B. Wilkins in Baltimore. See John Tebbel: 'A history of book publishing in the United States', Volume IV (1981), pp. 574-576, which describes the firm as the largest independent medical publisher in the USA in the 1970s. In 1998 the firm was acquired by the J. B. Lippincott division of Wolters Kluwer and became part of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. See www.lww.com.	2009
Wishart and Company	Wishart and Company was founded as a radical publishing house by Ernest Edward Wishart in 1925. In 1935 the firm was merged with Martin Lawrence and became Lawrence & Wishart, for many years the publishing arm of the Communist Party of Great Britain. See www.l-w-bks.co.uk.	2006
Worthington Company	Richard Worthington founded his publishing firm in Boston in 1867, and moved it to New York in 1874. The firm was originally called R. Worthington & Co., and became Worthington Company in 1885. The firm was forced into receivership in 1893 and closed in 1894. See sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 499.	2009
Young, Stewart and M'Culloch	The printing and publishing firm of Young, Stewart and M'Culloch was founded in Philadelphia in 1785 by William Young, Peter Stewart and John M'Culloch. Stewart left the firm in 1786 and it became Young and M'Culloch. The firm later traded as William Young (1787-1797); Young, Mills and Son (1797-1798); and William Young, Printer, Bookseller and Stationer: Whitehall Press, before it went out of business around 1805. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 501.	2009

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