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Sceptre Press	Sceptre Press was run as the private press of the poet Martin Booth from 1969 to 1981. The archives of the firm are in the University of New Hampshire Library and the University of Birmingham Library. According to the University of New Hampshire catalogue, the rights to the name Sceptre Press were purchased by Nora Aldridge in 1984. See also the WATCH entry for Martin Booth.	2008
Scolar Press	Scolar Press was run by Dr Robin Alston from 1966 to 1973. See Dr Alston's account of the sale of Scolar Press to Bemrose at www.r-alston.co.uk/Scolarexperience.htm. The following sentence is taken from Dr Alston's website: "The imprint was acquired by Gower in Aldershot; Gower was then swallowed by Ashgate; and as far as I can tell the Scolar imprint has completely disappeared."	2007
Seal Press	Seal Press was founded as a publisher of books for women in 1976. In 2007 the firm was acquired by the Perseus Books Group. See www.sealpress.com and www.perseusbooks.com.	2008
Seizin Press	Seizin Press was founded in London in 1928 by Laura Riding and Robert Graves. The Press was moved to Deya, Mallorca in 1929. On the break-up of their partnership in 1939, Riding ceded all rights in Seizin Press to Graves. Graves occasionally used the Seizin imprint after his return to Mallorca in 1946. See the WATCH entry for Robert Graves.	2006
Shakespeare Head Press	The Shakespeare Head Press was founded by A. H. Bullen and Frank Sidgwick in 1904. Following Bullen's death in 1920, the firm was purchased by the Oxford publishers Blackwell, and the imprint is still occasionally used by the Blackwell organisation. See www.blackwellpublishing.com (this website remains current after Blackwell became part of Wiley in February 2007).	2008
Sidney's Press	Sidney's Press was founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1802 by Sidney Babcock. The firm was in financial difficulties by 1850, and ceased publishing. For about ten years Sidney's Press continued as a bookselling firm before it went out of existence in 1860. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 424.	2009
Sir Richard Phillips	The bookselling, printing and publishing firm of Sir Richard Phillips (1767-1940) worked closely with the firm of Longman (then Longman, Hurst, Rees and Co.) and was eventually taken over by them. See the FOB entry for Longman, which is now part of the Pearson Group, and www.pearson.com.	2006
Sleeping Bear Press	Sleeping Bear Press was founded as a publisher of books on golf and for children in the 1990s and had its first success with 'The Legend of Sleeping Bear' in 1998. In 2002 the firm sold off many of its assets, including its golf, sports and regional books, sold to Clock Tower Press. Ann Arbor Press (q.v.) and other selected publishing assets were sold to Wiley at the same time. The remainder of the company was sold to Gale, and Sleeping Bear Press is now an imprint of Gale Cengage. See www.sleepingbearpress.com.	2008
Society for the Publication of American Music	The Society for the Publication of American Music (SPAM) was founded by Burnet C. Tuthill in New York in 1919. In 1969 the society was dissolved and the residue of its music stock was made over to its publisher, the Theodore Presser Company. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.presser.com.	2007
Sphinx Publishing	Sphinx Publishing was founded as a Florida-based self-help law publisher. In 1997 the firm was acquired by Sourcebooks, which still uses the name of Sphinx as an imprint. See www.sourcebooks.com.	2008

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