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Curwen PressThe music publishing firm of Curwen Press was founded by John Curwen (1816-1880) and was originally known as J. Curwen & Sons Ltd. In 1969 the firm was purchased by the US publishers Crowell, Collier & Macmillan. The new owners closed the London office of Curwen Press and divided the distribution rights between Faber Music and Robertson Publications. See the FOB entry for Crowell-Collier; H. Simon: 'Songs and words: a history of the Curwen Press' (1973); and 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990).2007
Curzon PressThe Curzon Press was founded in 1970 as a specialist African, Asian and Middle East publisher. The firm was bought by Taylor & Francis in 2001 and became known as RoutledgeCurzon or Routledge-Curzon. Routledge-Curzon now forms part of Routledge Asian and Middle East Studies. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.2008
CVBC ServicesThe publishing firm of CVBC was founded in 1982 when Chatto, Bodley Head & Cape bought Virago. See the FOB entries for each of the component firms of CVBC. Virago is owned by Little, Brown. Chatto & Windus, Bodley Head and Jonathan Cape are all imprints of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.2008
D. and J. Sadleir and CompanyThe publishing firm of D. and J. Sadleir and Company was founded in New York in 1837 by the brothers Denis and James Sadleir. In 1895 the rights and plates of many of the firm's most important books were sold to P. J. Kenedy and in 1912 Kenedy purchased the rest of the firm's assets. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 409 and see the FOB entry for P. J. Kenedy and Sons.2009
D. Appleton & CompanyDaniel Appleton founded his firm as an importer of books around 1813 and published his first book in Boston in 1831. In 1933 the firm merged with The Century Company to form Appleton-Century and in 1948, after a further merger with F. S. Crofts Company, became Appleton-Century-Crofts. See the FOB entry for Appleton-Century-Crofts, which indicates that part of the firm has passed into the ownership of Pearson Education and part into the ownership of the Academic Learning Company.2009
D. C. Heath and CompanyThe educational and academic publishing firm of D. C. Heath and Company, based in Lexington, Massachusetts, was acquired by the Houghton Mifflin Company in 1995. See www.hmco.com.2006
D. F. Robinson and CompanyThe firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.2009
Da Capo PressDa Capo Press was founded in New York in the early 1960s, originally as a publisher of books on music. In 1999 the firm was acquired by the Perseus Books Group. See www.perseusbooks.com.2008
Dale Seymour Co.Dale Seymour Co., a school supplemental publisher, was acquired by the Addison-Wesley division of Pearson in 1989. Addison-Wesley had been 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.2008
DDC PublishingThe firm of DDC Publishing was purchased by Pearson Education in 2002. See www.pearsoned.com. 2008

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