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Walter H. Baker Company	George M. Baker purchased the play division of Herbert Sweet and Company (q.v.) in 1872 and renamed the firm George M. Baker and Company. The firm was managed by Baker's brother Walter H. Baker, and was renamed the Walter H. Baker Company in 1892. The firm now trades as Baker's Plays. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 35-37, and see www.bakersplays.com.	2009
Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd	The Newcastle-upon-Tyne printing and publishing firm of Walter Scott came into existence in 1882 when Walter Scott took over the assets of Tyne Publishing Company. The firm declined after Scott's death in 1910 and was finally wound up in 1931. See John R. Turner: 'Conditions for success as a provincial publisher in late nineteenth-century England', Publishing history 41 (1997).	2008
Ward Lock	Ward Lock was purchased by Egmont from Pentos in 1985, and by Cassell from Egmont in 1989. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell. Ward Lock is now an imprint of the Octopus Group.	2008
Warner Books	Warner Books was established by Time Warner as part of the Time Warner Book Group. Time Warner Book Group was purchased by Hachette Livre in 2006, and Warner Books was renamed Grand Central Publishing. See www.hachettebookgroupusa.com.	2008
Warren C. Platt	The firm of Warren C. Platt was founded as a petroleum-industry publisher. In 1953 the firm was acquired by McGraw-Hill. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
Washington Square Press	Washington Square Press was purchased by the Pocket Books division of Simon & Schuster in 1959. Washington Square Press is now a division and an imprint of Simon & Schuster, which is owned by CBS Corporation. See www.simonsays.com.	2008
Waterfront Communications	Waterfront Communications was the personal company of the Scottish publisher Paul Harris. The firm has closed, and Paul Harris moved to work as an editor in Sri Lanka and more recently in Shanghai.	2007
Watergate Film Services Ltd	Watergate Film Services Ltd forms part of Peters Fraser and Dunlop. See www.pfd.co.uk.	2008
Way and Williams	The publishing firm of Way and Williams was founded in Chicago in 1895 by Washington Irving Way and Chauncey L. Williams. The firm went out of business in 1898, when its assets were acquired by Herbert S. Stone and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 477-478, and see the FOB entry for Herbert S. Stone and Company.	2009
Wayfarers' Library	Wayfarers' Library was a series of works devoted to modern literature, published by J. M. Dent as a companion to the Everyman Library. The first volume was published in 1913. See the FOB entry for J. M. Dent.	2006

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