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W. L. Allison	William L. Allison founded his publishing firm in New York in 1869, publishing low-price books and reference works, including the Arundale Edition. The firm went out of business in 1892. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 9.	2009
Wace Corporate Print	The firm of Wace Corporate Print was purchased by The Print Factory in 2005. See www.tpfgroup.co.uk.	2008
Wallace Literary Agency	Wallace, Aitken, & Sheil was founded in 1974 as a partnership between literary agents Gillon Aitken, Anthony Sheil, and Lois Wallace, with Wallace being the primary United States agent for the clients of the British agency, Anthony Sheil Associates, Ltd. The agency was changed in 1978 to the Wallace & Sheil Agency, Inc. when Aitken departed the partnership. The firm remained the Wallace & Sheil Agency, Inc. until 1988, when the partnership between Lois Wallace and Anthony Sheil was dissolved. At that time, the agency took its current name, the Wallace Literary Agency. From 1987 to 1998, Lois Wallace's husband, Tom Wallace, was an agent with the firm. The Wallace Literary Agency was jointly acquired by Robin Strauss and Andrew Nurnberg in 2014 who operate under the name Robin Straus Agency, Inc.	2025
Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd	The Newcastle-upon-Tyne printing and publishing firm of Walter Scott came into existence in 1882 when Walter Scott took over the assets of Tyne Publishing Company. The firm declined after Scott's death in 1910 and was finally wound up in 1931. See John R. Turner: 'Conditions for success as a provincial publisher in late nineteenth-century England', Publishing history 41 (1997).	2008
Ward Lock	Ward Lock was purchased by Egmont from Pentos in 1985, and by Cassell from Egmont in 1989. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell. Ward Lock is now an imprint of the Octopus Group.	2008
Watergate Film Services Ltd	Watergate Film Services Ltd forms part of Peters Fraser and Dunlop. See www.pfd.co.uk.	2008
Wayfarers' Library	Wayfarers' Library was a series of works devoted to modern literature, published by J. M. Dent as a companion to the Everyman Library. The first volume was published in 1913. See the FOB entry for J. M. Dent.	2006
Werner Laurie Ltd	Werner Laurie was part of the the Bodley Head publishing house from 1957 until 1987. The Bodley Head was sold to Random House in 1987. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Western Publishing Company	Western Printing and Lithographing Company was founded in Racine, Wisconsin around 1910. In 1916 Western acquired the Hamming-Whitman Company (q.v.) and in 1960 changed its name to Western Publishing Company. See the FOB entry for Golden Books, its best known imprint. In the 1980s Western Publishing changed its name to Golden Books Family Entertainment. In 1999 the firm filed for bankruptcy. In 2001 all the publishing assets of the firm were acquired by Random House, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/golden.	2008
Whatsonwhen Ltd	The online travel publisher Whatsonwhen Ltd was acquired by Wiley Europe in 2006. See eu.wiley.com.	2008

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