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| John W. Luce and Company | John W. Luce and Company was a small publishing house founded in Boston in 1904. It was briefly first known as Robinson, Luce Company. The firm was involved in the founding of Bruce Humphries (q.v.) but subsequently resumed publishing in its own name. John W. Luce and Company ceased publishing new titles in 1947, and the firm went out of business shortly afterwards. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 73 & 214. | 2008 |
| Jonathan Cape | Jonathan Cape founded his nown publishing house in London in 1921. The firm was sold to Random House in 1987. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith | The firm of Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith was established in New York in 1929, largely but not entirely as a US publisher of Jonathan Cape's British titles. Harrison Smith left the firm in 1931, and it went out of business in 1932. "Its assets were put into receivership and were liquidated within a year." See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 75-77. | 2008 |
| Jonathan Page and Company | Jonathan Page and Company was the name given to the firm founded by Jonathan Cape in 1919 (Page being his mother's maiden name). In 1921 Jonathan Page and Company disappeared and was replaced by Jonathan Cape Ltd. See the FOB entry for Jonathan Cape. | 2008 |
| Joseph Knight Company | The Joseph Knight Company was purchased by Lewis Coues Page in 1896 and renamed L. C. Page & Company. L. C. Page & Company was purchased by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (later Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in 1957. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2008 |
| Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. | Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. was formed as a company in 1878. Nicholas Trübner formed his company in 1851. The two companies merged to form Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. in 1889. In 1912 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. merged with George Routledge & Sons to form Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2008 |
| Kraus Curriculum Development Library | Kraus Curriculum Development Library was founded in 1981 and developed into KCDLonline. In 2008 the firm was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com. | 2008 |
| L. C. Page & Company | The firm of L. C. Page & Company was founded in Boston by Lewis Coues Page in 1896. The firm was purchased by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (later Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in 1957. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2008 |
| Lamson, Wolffe and Company | The publishing firm of Lamson, Wolffe and Company was founded in Boston in 1895 by E. R. Lamson and W. B. Wolffe. The firm went out of business in 1899. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 245. | 2009 |
| Lawrence Hill & Co. Publishers | Lawrence Hill founded his own publishing firm in 1972, shortly after the sale of his previous firm, Hill & Wang (q.v.). He continued publishing until his death in 1988. After his death the firm became part of Chicago Review Press, where the imprint Lawrence Hill Books is still used. See www.chicagoreviewpress.com. | 2008 |
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