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| Praeger Publishers | Praeger Publishers was founded by Frederick A. Praeger in 1949. In 1966 the firm was acquired by Encyclopedia Britannica, who sold it to CBS in 1977. In 1986 Praeger Publishers was purchased by Greenwood Publishing Group. See the FOB entry for Greenwood Publishing Group, which indicates that from 2008 the firm is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.greenwood.com and www.hmhco.com. | 2008 |
| Pratt, Woodford and Company | The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com. | 2009 |
| Prentice Hall | Prentice Hall was formed in 1913 by Charles W. Gerstenberg and Richard P. Ettinger, who named the firm after their mothers' maiden names. Prentice Hall was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1984 and then sold to the Pearson Group in 1998. It is now an imprint of Pearson Education. See www.pearsoned.com. | 2008 |
| Preservation Press | Preservation Press was acquired by Wiley from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1997. See www.wiley.com. | 2013 |
| Presidio Press | Presidio Press was founded in 1974 as a military book publisher, based in Novato, California. In 2002 Presidio Press was purchased by the Ballantine Books division of Random House, which in turn is part of Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| Preston | The music publishing firm of Preston (or Preston & Son) was founded by John Preston in the 1770s and subsequently managed by his son Thomas Preston. The firm was purchased by Coventry & Hollier around 1834, and much of the business of Coventry & Hollier was purchased by Novello in 1849 and 1851. Novello is now part of Chester Music and Novello & Company. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.chesternovello.com. | 2007 |
| Price Books | Price Books, also known as Spon Price Books, is now part of the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.pricebooks.co.uk and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2006 |
| Prima Lifestyle | The publishing firm of Prima Lifestyle was acquired in 2001 by Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc., which is owned by Bertelsmann. In 2003 Crown announced that Prima Lifestyle would cease operations, with its backlist being transferred to Three Rivers Press. See www.randomhouse.com/crown and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| Progressive Matrices | John Carlyle Raven first published his 'Progressive Matrices' in 1938. His three sons established the firm of J. C. Raven Ltd in 1972. In 2004 J. C. Raven Ltd was acquired by the Harcourt Assessment division of Reed Elsevier. Harcourt Assessment was purchased by Pearson in 2008. See www.harcourtassessment.com and pearsonassess.com. | 2008 |
| Promissor | The firm of Promissor was purchased by Pearson Education from Houghton Mifflin Company in January 2006. See www.pearsoned.com. | 2008 |
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