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| Michael Joseph Ltd | Michael Joseph founded his own publishing company in 1935. The firm of Michael Joseph Ltd was bought by Penguin UK in March 1985. Penguin UK is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com. | 2008 |
| Mills & Boon Ltd | The publishing firm of Mills & Boon was founded by Gerald Mills and Charles Boon in 1908. In 1971 the firm was purchased by Harlequin Enterprises Limited of Toronto. The official name of the firm is now Harlequin Mills & Boon, but the imprint Mills & Boon is still used. See www.millsandboon.co.uk. | 2007 |
| Mitchell Beazley | Mitchell Beazley Ltd was founded in the 1960s as an independent publishing house. The firm subsequently became part of the Octopus Publishing Group. The Octopus Group was purchased by Hachette in 2001. See www.hachette.com and www.octopus-publishing.co.uk. | 2006 |
| Modern Library | The Modern Library was founded as an imprint of Boni and Liveright (q.v.) in New York in 1917. Its original name was The Modern Library of the World's Best Books. In 1925 the Modern Library was purchased from Boni and Liveright by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. In 1927 Cerf and Klopfer changed the name of the firm to Random House. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 242-245; the FOB entry for Random House; and www.randomhouse.com. | 2008 |
| Muller, Blond & White Ltd | The firm of Muller, Blond & White Ltd was formed in the 1980s by the merger of Blond & Briggs Ltd and Frederick Muller Ltd. See the FOB entries for these two firms, which are now part of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Museum Street Buildings Ltd | The firm of Museum Street Buildings Ltd formed part of Messrs George Allen & Unwin. See the FOB entry for George Allen & Unwin, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to HarperCollins. | 2006 |
| Nautical Data Ltd | Nautical Data Ltd (publishers of the Reeds Nautical Almanac) was purchased by A. & C. Black Publishers Ltd in 2004. A. & C. Black is still trading under its own name (see www.acblack.com), but is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing. | 2007 |
| New American Library | The publishing firm known as New American Library was founded in 1948 by Kurt Enoch and Victor Weybright. In 1986 New American Library was purchased by Penguin Group USA, which still uses the NAL imprint. See the NAL page of www.us.penguingroup.com. | 2013 |
| New English Library | The publishing firm known as New English Library was purchased by Hodder & Stoughton from the Times Mirror Company in April 1981. Hodder & Stoughton is now part of the Hachette group. See www.hodderheadline.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Nonesuch Press | The Nonesuch Press was founded by Francis Meynell and others in 1923. Meynell became the sole rights-owner in 1951. Nonesuch Press Limited was formed in 1953, with representation on the board from the Bodley Head. Nonesuch Press ceased operations in 1968 and Meynell died in 1975. 'A history of the Nonesuch Press' was issued under the Nonesuch imprint in 1981, but distributed by the Bodley Head. See the WATCH entry for Francis Meynell and the FOB entry for the Bodley Head. | 2006 |
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