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| Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. | Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. was formed as a company in 1878. Nicholas Trübner formed his company in 1851. The two companies merged to form Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. in 1889. In 1912 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. merged with George Routledge & Sons to form Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2008 |
| Kelmscott Press | The Kelmscott Press was founded by William Morris in 1891. The main activities of the press came to an end on Morris's death in 1896, and the firm was closed down in 1898. | 2006 |
| Kingsgate Press | The Carey Kingsgate Press was formed by a merger of the Carey Press of the Baptist Missionary Society and the Kingsgate Press of the Baptist Union in about 1947. See the FOB entry for Carey Kingsgate Press Ltd and www.baptist.org.uk. | 2008 |
| Knight Books | Knight Books was founded as an imprint of the Brockhampton Press of Leicester. Brockhampton Press is now part of the Caxton Publishing Group, and the imprint Knight Paperbacks is still in use by them. See www.caxtonpublishing.com. | 2007 |
| L. C. Page & Company | The firm of L. C. Page & Company was founded in Boston by Lewis Coues Page in 1896. The firm was purchased by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (later Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in 1957. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2008 |
| Laurence Pollinger Ltd | Laurence Pollinger Ltd was one of the successor firms to Pearn, Pollinger & Higham (q.v.). Laurence Pollinger Ltd was renamed Pollinger Ltd, and in 2014 it was purchased by Peters Fraser & Dunlop. See https://petersfraserdunlop.com. | 2023 |
| Lawrence Hill & Co. Publishers | Lawrence Hill founded his own publishing firm in 1972, shortly after the sale of his previous firm, Hill & Wang (q.v.). He continued publishing until his death in 1988. After his death the firm became part of Chicago Review Press, where the imprint Lawrence Hill Books is still used. See www.chicagoreviewpress.com. | 2008 |
| Leader Publishing Group | In 2007 the Leader Publishing Group of Atlanta was purchased by Trans World Publishing of Atlanta (unrelated to the Transworld publishing firm owned by Bertelsmann). Trans World Publishing is an affiliate of Billian Publishing of Atlanta. See www.billian.com. | 2008 |
| Lectorum Publications | Lectorum Publications was founded in New York as a US distributor of books in Spanish for schools and libraries. In 1996 the firm was acquired by Scholastic, Inc. See www.scholastic.com. | 2008 |
| Link House Books | Link House Books was the parent company of a number of other publishers, including Blandford Press. In the mid-1980s, Link House Books was purchased first by United Newspapers and then by Cassell. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell. | 2007 |
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