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| A. & C. Black | A. & C. Black was founded by Adam and Charles Black in 1807. The firm is still trading under its own name, but is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing. See www.acblack.com and www.bloomsbury.com/uk. | 2014 |
| Abelard-Schuman Ltd | The records of Abelard-Schuman Ltd of London are held by Glasgow University Library. See www.gla.ac.uk/archives, which states that Abelard Schuman Ltd was founded in 1971 as a publishing subsidiary of Blackie & Son Ltd (see also the complex FOB entry for Blackie), and that by 2002 the firm was dormant. For the original US company of the same name, see the FOB entry for Abelard-Schuman, Inc. | 2008 |
| Academic Press | Academic Press was founded by Walter Johnson and Kurt Jacoby in 1942. It was acquired by the Harcourt Group (formerly part of Reed-Elsevier) and after the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008 it remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com. | 2008 |
| Addison-Wesley | Addison-Wesley published its first book in 1942. 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. | 2008 |
| Adlard Coles Nautical | Adlard Coles Ltd was founded as Robert Ross & Co. Ltd in the 1930s. In 1962 the firm was purchased by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd, which eventually became part of HarperCollins. Adlard Coles Ltd was sold by HarperCollins in 1990 to A. & C. Black and renamed Adlard Coles Nautical. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black; www.acblack.com and www.bloomsbury.com/uk. | 2014 |
| Alan R. Liss, Inc. | Alan R. Liss founded his own publishing firm in New York in 1971. In 1989 the firm was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
| Albert W. Lovering | Albert W. Lovering was a publishing firm in Boston in until the 1870s. In 1879 the firm went out of business and two of its former employees established the successor firm of DeWolfe, Fiske and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 119 and see the FOB entry for DeWolfe, Fiske and Company. | 2009 |
| Allen Lane | Allen Lane was the founder of Penguin in 1935, and his name is still used by the Penguin Group. The Penguin Group is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com. | 2008 |
| Allman & Son (Publishers) Ltd | The Allman educational list was purchased by John Boon of Mills & Boon in 1961. Mills & Boon was purchased by Harlequin in 1971 (see www.millsandboon.co.uk). The educational and non-fiction general list of Harlequin Mills & Boon was purchased by Bell & Hyman in 1980. See the FOB entry for Bell & Hyman, which indicates that any surviving rights will belong to HarperCollins, part of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com. | 2007 |
| Angus and Robertson (UK) Ltd | Angus and Robertson (UK) Limited was set up in 1954 as a British subsidiary of the Australian publishers Angus and Robertson (founded in 1886). In the 1980s the Australian parent company was purchased by Bay Books, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News International. Angus and Robertson (UK) became part of HarperCollins in 1989. See www.newscorp.com. | 2009 |
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