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| Tolley Publishing Company | The Tolley Publishing Company was founded in 1916 by Charles H. Tolley and operated as a legal and business publishing house until 1996. In 1996 Tolley Publishing was purchased by Reed Elsevier, who created a new division called Butterworth Tolley. See www.reedelsevier.com. | 2008 |
| Tyne Publishing Company | Tyne Publishing Company was the predecessor company of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne firm of Walter Scott, which took over all its assets in 1882. See the FOB entry for Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd. | 2008 |
| U. P. James | The brothers Joseph A. James and Uriah Pierson James founded a series of publishing, printing and bookselling firms in Cincinatti from 1831, of which the most prominent were named U. P. James and J. A. and U. P. James. U. P. James engaged in all the publishing activities of their firm. The brothers dissolved their partnership in 1854, and U. P. James continued his publishing business until he closed down his firm in 1880. He died in 1889. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 224-225. | 2009 |
| Union School Furnishing Company | Union School Furnishing Company was based in Chicago between about 1909 and about 1923. The company occasionally published books with the imprint Union School Library. See the Lucile Project entry at sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile. | 2009 |
| Useful Knowledge Publishing Company | Useful Knowledge Publishing Company was one of a number of companies founded by the bookseller and publisher John B. Alden. The firm began trading in 1882 and went out of existence in 1883. See the FOB entry for John B. Alden and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 6. | 2009 |
| Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta | Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta is part of the VCH group, which in turn is part of Wiley. See www.wiley-vch.de. | 2008 |
| Victor Adams & Co. | The imprint of Victor Adams & Co. flourished in the 1870s and was one of many imprints used by the complex of firms usually described as Beadle and Adams (q.v.). See the FOB entry for Beadle and Adams; the Lucile entry at sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile/publishers/adamsvictor/adamsvictor.htm; and www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp. | 2009 |
| W. A. Benjamin Company | The science publisher W. A. Benjamin was acquired by Addison-Wesley in 1970. Addison-Wesley was 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. | 2006 |
| W. A. Leary and Company | W. A. Leary founded his bookselling and publishing business in Philadelphia in 1836. The publishing side of the firm was discontinued in the late 1860s, although Leary's Book store continued for another hundred years before going out of business in 1968. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 248. | 2009 |
| W. H. & L. Collingridge Ltd | The publishing firm of W. H. & L. Collingridge Ltd was founded in or before the 1840s, initially publishing religious works, but later specialising in horticulture and botany. In the 1960s the firm was purchased by Paul Hamlyn, and later became part of the Hamlyn Group and the Octopus Group. See the FOB entries for Hamlyn and Octopus Publishing Group, and see www.octopus-publishing.co.uk. | 2008 |
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