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W. A. Benjamin Company	The science publisher W. A. Benjamin was acquired by Addison-Wesley in 1970. 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.	2006
W. A. Leary and Company	W. A. Leary founded his bookselling and publishing business in Philadelphia in 1836. The publishing side of the firm was discontinued in the late 1860s, although Leary's Book store continued for another hundred years before going out of business in 1968. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 248.	2009
W. B. Saunders	The publishing firm of W. B. Saunders was founded in Philadelphia in 1888 by Walter Burns Saunders. By the 1980s W. B. Saunders was operating as a joint imprint with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (see the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace & Company). Harcourt, Brace & Company was acquired by Reed Elsevier in 1998, and W. B. Saunders became part of Elsevier Health. After the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008 W. B. Saunders remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com and www.us.elsevierhealth.com.	2008
W. Green & Son	The Scottish legal publishing firm of W. Green & Son was acquired by Sweet & Maxwell in 1956. Sweet & Maxwell in turn was acquired by the Thomson Corporation in 1987, and now forms part of Thomson Legal & Regulatory. See www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.wgreen.co.uk.	2006
W. H. & L. Collingridge Ltd	The publishing firm of W. H. & L. Collingridge Ltd was founded in or before the 1840s, initially publishing religious works, but later specialising in horticulture and botany. In the 1960s the firm was purchased by Paul Hamlyn, and later became part of the Hamlyn Group and the Octopus Group. See the FOB entries for Hamlyn and Octopus Publishing Group, and see www.octopus-publishing.co.uk.	2008
W. H. Allen	W. H. Allen is now part of Virgin Books. In the early nineteenth century, W. H. Allen specialised in books on Indian subjects, but gradually the firm developed into a general publisher. W. H. Allen became a Howard & Wyndham company, but Howard & Wyndham floated off the company in 1984, retaining a 38 per cent share. The W. H. Allen publishing house acquired Virgin Books in 1986, but was then acquired by the Virgin parent company from 1987 (67 per cent purchased) to 1991, when the company was renamed Virgin Publishing. See the FOB entry for Virgin Books.	2009
W. H. Freeman and Company	The publishing firm of W. H. Freeman and Company was founded by William H. Freeman in 1946. In 1986 W. H. Freeman was acquired by the Holtzbrinck group, and in 1996 it was formed into a division with Bedford Books, St Martin's Press and Worth Publishers. See www.bfwpub.com.	2009
W. J. Watt and Company	William J. Watt founded his own publishing firm in New York in 1908, publishing mostly fiction. The firm went out of business in 1928 and Watt died in 1948. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 375.	2008
W. L. Allison	William L. Allison founded his publishing firm in New York in 1869, publishing low-price books and reference works, including the Arundale Edition. The firm went out of business in 1892. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 9.	2009
Wace Corporate Print	The firm of Wace Corporate Print was purchased by The Print Factory in 2005. See www.tpfgroup.co.uk.	2008

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