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| Arrow Books | Arrow Books was an imprint of Hutchinson and then of Century Hutchinson. It is now part of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Arrow Music Press | Arrow Music Press was founded in New York in 1938 by Marc Blitzstein, Aaron Copland, Lehman Engel and Virgil Thomson. In 1956 its catalogue was acquired by Boosey & Hawkes. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.boosey.com. | 2014 |
| Artaria | Artaria is a historic Austrian music publishing firm, founded in 1765, publisher of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. The publishing house closed in 1858, and its assets later passed to the firm of Josef Weinberger. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.weinberger.co.at. | 2007 |
| Arthur Barker Ltd | Arthur Barker founded his publishing firm in 1932. In 1959 the firm was sold to Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The "Arthur Barker" imprint ceased to be used from 1991, when Weidenfeld & Nicolson was incorporated into Orion. See the FOB entries for Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Orion Publishing Group. | 2008 |
| Arthur L. Humphreys | Mr Arthur Lee Humphreys was a bookseller who also published books on an occasional basis from the 1890s to the 1930s. From about 1890 he was one of the proprietors of Hatchards and his books were mostly published from Hatchards' address at 187 Piccadilly, London. In 1924 he sold his interest in Hatchards (see 'The Times', 31 March 1924), but continued to publish occasionally, mostly his own writings, for another ten years or so. He died in 1946. | 2009 |
| Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew | The music publishing firm of Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew was formed in 1906 by the merger of Eugene Ascherberg & Co. and Hopwood & Crew. In 1970 the firm was acquired by Chappell Music, now part of Warner Chappell Music. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.warnerchappell.co.uk. | 2007 |
| Ashbel Stoddard | Ashbel Stoddard founded his printing and publishing firm in New York in 1786. The firm went out of existence in 1820. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 432. | 2009 |
| Ashendene Press | The Ashendene Press was founded by C. H. St John Hornby in 1894 and remained in his personal ownership. The Ashendene Press went out of existence in 1935, after the publication of its 'Bibliography'. Hornby died in 1946. | 2008 |
| Aslib | Aslib was founded in 1924 as the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux. In December 2004 Aslib went into liquidation. In 2005 its titles, name and rights were acquired by Routledge Reference, which is a division of Taylor & Francis. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2008 |
| Associated Book Publishers Ltd | The publishing agglomerate Associated Book Publishers Ltd at different times included Methuen, Chapman & Hall, Spon, Eyre & Spottiswoode, Sweet & Maxwell, Routledge & Kegan Paul and Croom Helm. ABP was purchased by the Thomson Corporation in 1987. See the FOB entries for the individual component firms of ABP, for information as to which have been retained as part of the Thomson Corporation and which have been subsequently sold. See also www.thomson.com. | 2007 |
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