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Washburn, Ives 1926
Watson-Guptill 1937
Watts, Franklin 1942
Wiley & Sons 9999
Willet, Clark & Co. 1927
Wood, William & Co. 1806
World Publishing 1905
World Book Co. 1905
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Ziff-Davis 1935
Zondervan Publishing 1931
Founded by Joel Parker White and Frank Allen, editors at Dodd, Mead.
The pair produced beautiful, illustrated reprints, often in Folio size.
"Aldine Series", books printed on handmade paper.
Went bankrupt in 1890.
Richard Worthington, a native Englishman, began in the book business as an importer of books from England. By 1883 he was publishing his own books.
Twelvemo editions of classics and a few children's books.
He advertized at prices higher than the actual price so people thought they were getting a deal. (See practice of Belford, Clarke)
1884 he purchasded all the clothbound books of John Lovell Co. except the "Lovell Library" series, thereby acquiring sets of Eliot, Thackeray, Dickens, Scott.
Issued twelvemo "Franklin Editions". Clothbound "World Library".
1890, sold out to John Lovell's United Book Company. When Lovell failed, Worthington reclaimed much of his stock.
Worthington pirated Estes & Lauriat's Chatterbox series (as Leslie and Belford, Clark and others) and was sued by Estes & Lauriat (as were the others). Worthington offered $100 to anyone who could prove his Chatterbox books were identical in every way to Estes & Lauriat's. Oddly, although Leslie and the others lost the law-suits brought by Estes & Lauriat, the case against Worthington was thrown out.
In 1887, Estes & Lauriat again sued to stop Worthington from pirating their books, and this time they won---after many years and countless legal fees. Worthington responded to the loss by filing bankruptcy. in 1892.
The bankruptcy trustee, trying to liquidate Worthington, ran into censorship problems when he tried to distribute Worthington's cheap editions of Arabian Nights, Tom Jones, The Decameron, Aladdin, and other classics.
Founded to publish photography albums, then all the rage. Branched out to children's books and general popular literature.
1892 purchased International Bible Agency, manufacturer of Bibles.
1904 purchased Henry T. Coates & Co. (See 1848---Coates)
1905 purchased the American arm of William Collins & Co., which created Red Letter Bibles and printed Bibles on India paper. Winston added International Series of Bible in all sizes, styles, and price ranges. Also, texts, references, teacher's Bibles.
Collins also had "Forward Series", "Young People's Library" and other picture books for children. Additionally, Standard Library, Herriott Library, Handy Illustrated Pocket Novels (on very thin paper with large type), One Volume Shakespeare (illustrated on thin paper), a 40-volume illustrated Shakespeare, a 6-volume Gem Shakespeare on India paper, and Graphic Dictionary of the English Language.
1914, Theodora Wilson's The Last Weapon, which was suppressed during the Great War.
1918 entered textbook market with history text, Our Beginnings in Europe and America. Followed this in 1919 with History of the World War. Also in 1919 introduced Winston Readers and Winston Dictionary for Elementary Schools.
1920, introduced Silent Readers.
1922, the highly successful Human Geography series.
1923, Clear-Type Classics
1928, Catholic Child's Readers.
1929, New Winston Readers.
Halsey William Wilson. In college he purchased a small press from a church where it had been used to produce church bulletins, installed it in the corner of his room, and with his roommate, Henry S. Morris who had been a bookstore manager, started Morris & Wilson.
The business was basically a retail operation. The two received orders for books in print and ordered them in bulk from the publsiher.
In 1895 the Publisher's Weekly ceased issuing compilations of books in print, so WIlson assumed the task. Two years later he issued his Cumulative Book Index.
In 1901, Wilson issued the "Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature".
About this time Bowker entered the field, and the costs and competition between the two nearly ruined both. They negotiated, agreed that Wilson would do the periodical index and Bowker would do the book index.
1907, moved to New York from Minnesota, issued International Index to Periodicals.
1913, Industrial Arts Index.
1916, Index to Legal Periodicals and Agricultural Index.
