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A. W. Shaw Company	A. W. Shaw Company was an early acquisition of the McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1928. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
A. Wessels and Company	The publishing house of A. Wessels and Company was founded in New York in 1900. In 1911 the firm was nearing bankruptcy and was liquidated by a committee of New York publishers. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 379.	2009
A. Williams and Company	Alexander Williams founded his bookselling and publishing firm in Boston in 1855. In 1883 Williams retired and the firm was renamed Cupples, Upham and Company (later J. G. Cupples Company). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 111 & 491 and see the FOB entry for the J. G. Cupples Company.	2009
Addison-Wesley	Addison-Wesley published its first book in 1942. Addison-Wesley was purchased by Pearson plc in 1988, and still forms part of the Pearson Group. For a time the divison within Pearson was known both as Longman Addison Wesley and as Addison Wesley Longman, but it has now reverted to Addison-Wesley. See www.pearson.com.	2008
Albert W. Lovering	Albert W. Lovering was a publishing firm in Boston in until the 1870s. In 1879 the firm went out of business and two of its former employees established the successor firm of DeWolfe, Fiske and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 119 and see the FOB entry for DeWolfe, Fiske and Company.	2009
Austin & Winfield Publishers, Inc.	The legal publishing firm of Austin & Winfield Publishers, Inc. is now part of University Press of America, which in turn is part of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.univpress.com and www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
B. W. Dodge and Company	B. W. Dodge and Company was established as a publishing firm in New York around 1903. In 1911 the firm was acquired by William Rickey and Company of New York. There is a brief FOB entry for William Rickey and Company, which went out of business before World War I. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 119.	2008
B. W. Huebsch	Benjamin W. Huebsch published his first book in 1902, and continued as an independent publisher until 1925 when he merged his firm with the newly-formed Viking Press, of which he became Vice-President. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 194, and see the FOB entry for Viking Press.	2008
Bemrose & Sons	William Bemrose founded his printing and publishing company in the 1820s, initially with a strong emphasis on printing railway information. The printing side of the firm survives as BemroseBooth, which is owned by the Appleton company, of Appleton, Wisconsin (www.bemroseonline.co.uk). The publishing branch of the firm, by then known as Bemrose & Sons, was acquired in 1909 by George Allen & Sons, which became George Allen & Unwin Ltd in 1914. See the FOB entry for George Allen & Unwin.	2009
Biggar and Odhams	The printing firm of Biggar and Odhams was founded in 1847 by William Biggar and William Odhams. After Biggar's death, the firm was renamed William Odhams and then Odhams Limited. See the FOB entry for Odhams Limited.	2008

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