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Brewer and Warren, Inc.	The publishing firm of Brewer and Warren, Inc. was established in 1930 in New York as the successor firm to Payson and Clarke (q.v.). In 1931, the firm changed its name to Brewer, Warren and Putnam, and in 1932 it was purchased by Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace & Company, which traces the firm to the formation of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2008, and see the account of Brewer and Warren in 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 68.	2008
Broderip & Wilkinson	After the bankruptcy of the firm of Longman & Broderip in 1798, Francis Broderip and C. Wilkinson established the music publishing firm of Broderip & Wilkinson and reissued many of the Longman & Broderip titles. Francis Broderip died in 1807 and the firm continued briefly as Wilkinson & Co., before all its stock and plates were purchased by Thomas Preston. The Preston 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
C. M. Barnes - Wilcox Company	Charles M. Barnes opened his first book store in Wheaton, Illinois in 1873. In 1908 his firm evolved into the C. M. Barnes - Wilcox Company, when John Wilcox became the primary shareholder. In 1917 management of the firm was taken over by C. W. Follett and it was renamed J. W. Wilcox & Follett Company. After the death of John Wilcox in 1923, the firm became the Follett Company. It is now the Follett Corporation. See www.follett.com.	2008
C. W. Bardeen	Charles William Bardeen was a partner in the publishing firm of Davis, Bardeen and Company from 1874 to 1880 and then the owner of the successor firm of C. W. Bardeen from 1880 until it went out of business in 1922. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 39.	2009
C. W. Daniel Company Ltd	C. W. Daniel Company Ltd was founded in 1902 as a Tolstoyan, pacifist and socialist publishing house. The archives of the firm are in the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (www.issg.nl). In 2004 the firm and all its backlist were purchased by Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Charles Wesley Alexander	Charles Wesley Alexander founded his publishing firm in Philadelphia in 1861. The firm went out of existence around 1878. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 7.	2009
Chatto & Windus Ltd	Chatto & Windus was founded in 1873. The firm grew out of the bookselling business of John Camden Hotten. Chatto & Windus was sold to Random House in 1987. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2006
Chiswick Press	Chiswick Press was founded by Charles Whittingham (1767-1840). The firm was purchased by George Bell & Sons in 1880. See the FOB entry for George Bell & Sons, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to HarperCollins.	2006
Claude Kendall, Inc.	Claude Kendall founded his own publishing house in New York in 1929. In 1934 the firm was renamed Claude Kendall and Willoughby Sharp. In 1936 it became Claude Kendall, Inc., but the firm went bankrupt and out of business that same year. Kendall himself was murdered in 1937. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 199.	2008
Clowes and Clowes	William Clowes founded his own printing and publishing company in London in 1803. In 1873, two other family members, both called William Clowes, established the firm of Clowes and Clowes in Beccles, Suffolk. In 1880 the Suffolk and London companies merged to form William Clowes Limited. William Clowes Limited is still trading and in 2004 the head office in Suffolk moved from Beccles to Ellough. See www.clowes.co.uk.	2007

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