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Jerome H. Remick & Co.	The music publishing firm of Jerome H. Remick & Co. was established in New York City in 1906, after the dissolution of Shapiro-Remick & Company. It later became known as the Remick Music Corporation. In 1929 the firm was purchased by Warner Brothers Pictures, and it is identified as one of the predecessor firms of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. in the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2007
John Camden Hotten	John Camden Hotten ran a printing and publishing firm which published works by Rossetti, Swinburne, Whitman and others from the 1850s to the 1870s. Hotten died in 1873, and his firm was absorbed into Chatto & Windus. See the FOB entry for Chatto & Windus Ltd.	2008
John H. Hopkins and Son	John H. Hopkins founded his publishing firm in New York in 1934. Hopkins died in July 1939, and the firm had gone out of business by the time his son Irving G. Hopkins entered the army in 1942. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 191.	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
Joseph Nancrede	The bookselling and publishing firm of Hall and Nancrede was founded in Boston in 1795 by Thomas Hall and Joseph Nancrede. By 1796 the firm was known as Joseph Nancrede. Joseph Nancrede went out of existence in 1804. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 332.	2013
June Hall Literary Agency Ltd	The June Hall Literary Agency was acquired by the newly-formed Peters Fraser & Dunlop agency (PFD) in 1988. See www.pfd.co.uk.	2008
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
Link House Books	Link House Books was the parent company of a number of other publishers, including Blandford Press. In the mid-1980s, Link House Books was purchased first by United Newspapers and then by Cassell. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell.	2007
Liveright Publishing Corporation	The publishing firm of Boni and Liveright was founded in New York in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. In 1918 business differences between the founders led to a split and (on the flip of a coin) sole ownership of the firm passed to Liveright. In 1928 the name of the firm was changed to Horace Liveright, Inc., and in 1933 it became the Liveright Publishing Corporation. The Liveright Publishing Corporation was acquired by W. W. Norton in 1974. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 57-63 and www.wwnorton.com.	2008
Lund Humphries	"Lund Humphries is a long-established publisher of illustrated art books" - www.lundhumphries.com. In 1999 the firm was taken over by Ashgate Publishing. See www.ashgate.com.	2008

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