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| Pan Books | Pan Books was founded in 1944, and became a mass circulation paperback publisher jointly owned by Collins, Macmillan, Heinemann and Hodder & Stoughton. In 1987 Pan became a wholly owned subsidiary of Macmillan. Since 1999, Macmillan has been wholly owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group, with Pan Macmillan as one of the company's principal divisions. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2006 |
| Pantheon Books | Pantheon Books was founded in New York in 1942 by a group of European exiles from Nazism. In 1961 the firm was purchased by Random House and made part of the Knopf Publishing Group. Random House is now owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/pantheon and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| Pantheon Casa Editrice | Pantheon Casa Editrice was an art publishing house founded by Kurt Wolff in Leipzig in 1924. In 1941 Wolff fled Germany for the USA, and in 1942 he became one of the founders of Pantheon Books in New York. See the FOB entry for Pantheon Books and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 270. | 2008 |
| Paragraphic Books | Paragraphic Books was a photography and graphics imprint of Grossman Publishers, started in 1965. See the FOB entry for Grossman, which indicates that the firm is now part of Viking, which is part of Penguin USA, which in turn is part of the Pearson Group. See us.penguingroup.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 167-168. | 2008 |
| Parthenon Publishing | In 2006 there were at least three separate firms trading as Parthenon Publishing in the USA and the UK. As a medical publisher, Parthenon Publishing is an imprint of CRC Press, which is a member of the Taylor & Francis Group. See the FOB entry for CRC Press and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2006 |
| Patrick Donahoe | Patrick Donahoe was the owner and publisher of the 'Boston Pilot' in the years 1836-1876 and 1891-1901. Between about 1850 and 1876 he also ran an occasional book-publishing firm in his own name. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 132. | 2009 |
| Patrick O'Shea | Patrick O'Shea founded his publishing firm in New York in 1854. The firm went out of existence in 1906, the year of O'Shea's death. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 347. | 2009 |
| Patrick Stephens Ltd | Patrick Stephens Ltd was purchased by Thorsons in 1984. Thorsons was purchased by William Collins in 1989. William Collins became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990, and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers. See www.newscorp.com. Until 1991 Patrick Stephens imprints were published from the Thorsons address in Wellingborough. From 1991 to the present, however, Patrick Stephens has resumed independent publishing from an address in Sparkford, Somerset. | 2008 |
| Pavilion Books | The publishing firm of Pavilion Books was founded in 1981. It became an imprint of Chrysalis Books, and since 2005 has been an imprint of Anova Books. See www.anovabooks.com. | 2007 |
| Payne-Gallway | Payne-Gallway was established in Ipswich in 1998 by Pat and Oliver Heathcote. In 2005 the firm was purchased by the Harcourt Education International division of Reed Elsevier. Harcourt Education International was sold by Reed Elsevier in 2007 to Pearson. See www.pearson.com and www.heinemann.co.uk. | 2008 |
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