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Duell, Sloan and Pearce | The publishing firm of Duell, Sloan and Pearce was founded in New York in 1939 by C. Halliwell Duell, Samuel Sloan and Charles A. Pearce. In 1961 the firm was acquired by Meredith Publishing Company. According to 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), Meredith retired Duell, Sloan and Pearce as an imprint in 1967. According to John Tebbel: 'A history of book publishing in the United States', Volume IV (1981), all rights in Duell, Sloan and Pearce titles were purchased from Meredith in 1969 by Hawthorn Books. See the FOB entry for Hawthorn Books, Inc., which indicates that any remaining rights in that firm would belong to the E. P. Dutton division of Penguin Books. | 2008 |
Drexel Biddle | The publishing firm of Drexel Biddle and Bradley was founded in Philadelphia in 1895 by Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle and Alexander Bradley. From 1897 the firm became known as Drexel Biddle. In 1904 the firm was purchased by R. F. Fenno and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 51-52 and see the FOB entry for R. F. Fenno and Company. | 2009 |
Drawbook Series | The Drawbook Series was purchased by A. & C. Black from Pitman in 1981. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black and www.acblack.com. | 2009 |
Dragonfly Books | Dragonfly Books is a long-established imprint of Alfred A. Knopf. See the FOB entry for Knopf, which indicates that the firm was purchased by Random House in 1960. Random House is now owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/knopf and www.bertelsmann.com. There have been several small unconnected publishing firms called Dragonfly Books. See e.g. www.dragonflybooks.co.uk and www.dragonflybooks.net. | 2008 |
Doves Press | The Doves Press was founded by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson in 1899 and remained in his personal ownership. The Doves Press went out of existence in 1916, when Cobden-Sanderson famously threw all the firm's type into the River Thames. | 2014 |
Doubleday & Company | In 1897 Frank Nelson Doubleday and Samuel McClure founded the publishing house of Doubleday & McClure. From 1900 the firm became Doubleday, Page & Company. In 1927 Doubleday merged with the George H. Doran Company and became Doubleday, Doran. The firm was renamed Doubleday & Company in 1946. Doubleday & Company was purchased by Bertelsmann in 1986, and is now a division of Random House. See www.randomhouse.com/doubleday and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2009 |
Dorling Kindersley | Dorling Kindersley (www.dk.com) was founded in 1974 by Peter Kindersley and Christopher Dorling. The company was purchased by Penguin UK in 2000. Penguin UK is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com. | 2009 |
Dominie Press | Dominie Press was an independently-owned publishing company based in Carlsbad, California. In 2004 the company was acquired by Pearson Education. See www.pearsoned.com.
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Dodd, Mead and Company | The predecessor firm of Dodd, Mead and Company was Taylor and Dodd (q.v.). From the 1870s the firm was run by Edward S. Mead and adopted the name of Dodd, Mead and Company. The following quotation is from the catalogue of the archives of Dodd, Mead and Company in the University of Delaware Library: "The business operations of Dodd, Mead and Company were suspended in March 1989 pending the outcome of arbitration with its fulfillment house, Metro Services Inc. By the end of 1990 the company ceased publications." | 2009 |
Dobson Banjo Music | The publishing list of Dobson Banjo Music was purchased by M. Witmark & Sons around 1890. See the FOB entry for M. Witmark & Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com. | 2008 |
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| Duffield and Green | The publishing firm of Duffield and Green began as Fox, Duffield and Company (q.v.) in New York in 1903. On the retirement of Rector Fox in 1906, the firm became known as Duffield and Company. After Horace Green became company president in 1926, the firm changed its name again to Duffield and Green. In 1934 Duffield and Green was purchased by Dodd, Mead and Company. See the FOB entry for Dodd, Mead and Company and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 131. | 2008 |
| Dun Emer Press | The Dun Emer Press was founded by Evelyn Gleeson in 1903 and was run by her and members of the Yeats family until 1908. In 1908 the Dun Emer Press became the Cuala Press, under the direction of Elizabeth Yeats. See the FOB entry for Cuala Press. | 2008 |
| Duncan Davison & Co. | Duncan Davison & Co. was a subsidiary firm of Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew. See the FOB entry for Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, which indicates that any surving rights will belong to Warner Chappell Music. See www.warnerchappell.co.uk. | 2007 |
| DYP | The publishing firm of DYP was purchased by LLP (Lloyds of London Press) in 1995. The LLP Group plc was formed in 1995 and was merged with IBC Group in 1998 to form Informa (now T&F Informa). LLP Professional and DYP are now imprints of T&F Informa. See www.informalaw.com and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2006 |
| E. & F. N. Spon | E. & F. N. Spon (also known as the Spon Press) began publishing around 1850, specialising in engineering and architectural works, and eventually became part of the Routledge Group. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com. | 2006 |
| E. E. Barclay and Company | The publishing firm of E. E. Barclay and Company was founded in 1840 in New York. The firm subsequently moved to Cincinnati and then to Philadelphia, and went out of business in 1891. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 39. | 2009 |
| E. Fleming & Co. | E. Fleming & Co. (later C. B. Fleming & Co.) was one of the three firms which came together as Norwood Press from 1894. After World War II, production declined and Norwood Press and its constituent companies had all closed by 1953 [information from the records of the Norwood Historical Society]. | 2009 |
| E. J. Arnold & Son Ltd | E. J. Arnold & Son Ltd was founded in Leeds in 1863 and became a major firm of stationers, printers and publishers. In 1989 most of the firm was acquired by Nottingham Group plc and merged with Nottingham Educational Supplies to form NES Arnold. NES Arnold became part of the Novara group and in 2001 was purchased by Findel plc. See www.findel-education.co.uk and www.nesarnold.co.uk. | 2008 |
| E. J. Arnold Publishing Division | E. J. Arnold & Son Ltd was founded in Leeds in 1863 and became a major firm of stationers, printers and publishers. In 1989 the E. J. Arnold Publishing Division was sold to the UK firm of Thomas Nelson. See the FOB entry for Thomas Nelson. | 2008 |
| E. P. Dutton and Company | Edward Payson Dutton founded a book-selling firm in Boston in 1852, and began publishing in the 1860s. The firm was acquired by New American Library, and in 1986 New American Library was purchased by Penguin Group USA, which still uses the Dutton imprint. See us.penguingroup.com. | 2008 |
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