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| Angus and Robertson Ltd | The Australian publishing firm of Angus and Robertson was founded in 1886. The firm was principally a bookselling company, but began publishing from 1887. From the 1970s the bookselling and publishing companies became completely separate (see the FOB entry for Angus and Robertson Bookstore). The publishing arm of Angus and Robertson became part of HarperCollins from 1989. See www.angusrobertson.com.au and www.newscorp.com. | 2009 |
| Anthony Blond Ltd | Anthony Blond Ltd was founded in 1957. See Anthony Blond's own account in his book 'Jew made in England'. His publishing firm went through many changes and mergers, being known as Blond & Briggs Ltd and also Holt-Blond in the 1970s, and Muller, Blond & White Ltd in the 1980s. Muller, Blond & White Ltd was purchased by Century Hutchinson in 1987, and is now part of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. (There is further information in Anthony Blond's obituary, The Times, 1 March 2008.) | 2008 |
| Appleton & Lange, Inc. | The medical publishing firm of Appleton & Lange, Inc. was purchased by McGraw-Hill from Pearson plc in 1999. See www.mcgraw-hill.com. | 2009 |
| Arthur Barker Ltd | Arthur Barker founded his publishing firm in 1932. In 1959 the firm was sold to Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The "Arthur Barker" imprint ceased to be used from 1991, when Weidenfeld & Nicolson was incorporated into Orion. See the FOB entries for Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Orion Publishing Group. | 2008 |
| Arthur L. Humphreys | Mr Arthur Lee Humphreys was a bookseller who also published books on an occasional basis from the 1890s to the 1930s. From about 1890 he was one of the proprietors of Hatchards and his books were mostly published from Hatchards' address at 187 Piccadilly, London. In 1924 he sold his interest in Hatchards (see 'The Times', 31 March 1924), but continued to publish occasionally, mostly his own writings, for another ten years or so. He died in 1946. | 2009 |
| Aslib | Aslib was founded in 1924 as the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux. In December 2004 Aslib went into liquidation. In 2005 its titles, name and rights were acquired by Routledge Reference, which is a division of Taylor & Francis. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2008 |
| Associated Book Publishers Ltd | The publishing agglomerate Associated Book Publishers Ltd at different times included Methuen, Chapman & Hall, Spon, Eyre & Spottiswoode, Sweet & Maxwell, Routledge & Kegan Paul and Croom Helm. ABP was purchased by the Thomson Corporation in 1987. See the FOB entries for the individual component firms of ABP, for information as to which have been retained as part of the Thomson Corporation and which have been subsequently sold. See also www.thomson.com. | 2007 |
| Athene Publishing Co. Ltd | The Athene Publishing Co. of Wellingborough and London was closely associated with Thorsons in the 1950s and 1960s. By 1967 the firm was described as a subsidiary of Thorsons. See the FOB entry for Thorsons, which indicates that the firm and its rights now belong to HarperCollins. See www.harpercollins.co.uk. | 2008 |
| B. T. Batsford Ltd | The publishing firm of B. T. Batsford Ltd was founded in 1843. The firm went into receivership in the 1990s and was subsequently acquired by Chrysalis Books. For a few years the imprint Batsford/Chrysalis was used. In 2005 Chrysalis Books became Anova Books, with Batsford as one of its main imprints. See www.anovabooks.com. | 2009 |
| Bell & Hyman Ltd | Bell & Hyman Ltd was formed in 1977 when the firm of George Bell & Sons Ltd was sold to Robin Hyman. In 1986 Bell & Hyman Ltd merged with George Allen & Unwin to form Unwin Hyman. In 1990 Unwin Hyman was sold to HarperCollins, part of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com. | 2008 |
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