William H. Allen and Company (est. 1835) was a bookselling andpublishing business inLondon, England,^[1] at first known for issuing works related to theBritish colonies.^[2] It operated from headquarters inLeadenhall Street, later moving to Waterloo Place. Early owners and staff included James P. Allen, William Ferneley Allen (d. 1877), and William Houghton Allen.^[3]

After a series of acquisitions, the W. H. Allen name disappeared in 1991.

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By 1975 W. H. Allen was part of the British conglomerateHoward & Wyndham Ltd. During 1977 and 1978 the Wyndham identity was phased out, with the whole publishing line being identified with the W. H. Allen brand. TheTarget Books paperback line became well known for its highly successful range of novelisations and other assorted books based on the popular science fiction television seriesDoctor Who.

In 1977, W. H. Allen acquiredWarner Communications' publishing division, includingWilliams Publishing andThorpe & Porter; but by 1978–1979 W. H. Allen decided to close down both divisions.^[4]

W. H. Allen was acquired byVirgin Books in a process that spanned late 1986 to late 1987.^[5] Virgin Books was incorporated into W. H. Allen in 1989, but in 1991 W. H. Allen was renamedVirgin Publishing Ltd.Random House, through its United Kingdom division, acquired a 90% stake in Virgin Books in March 2007.^[6] In November 2009, Virgin became an independent imprint withinEbury Publishing, a division of the Random House Group.^[7]

• Black, Kingsbury, and Parbury
• Black, Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen, 1818–1822^[1][9]
• Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen, 1822–1827 (William Houghton Allen, Thomas Kingsbury, Charles Parbury)^[10][1]
• Parbury, Allen, and Co., 1827–1834 (William Houghton Allen, Charles Parbury)^[10][11][12]
• Parbury and Allen

• George Parbury

issued by the firm

• Asiatic Journal
  • The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia. New Series. Vol. XXVI. Wm. H. Allen and Co. May–August 1838. Retrieved24 April 2014.
  • East India Company (1832).The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 8. Wm. H. Allen & Company. Retrieved30 December 2012.
  • The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 26. Wm. H. Allen & Company. 1838. Retrieved24 April 2014.
  • Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany. Wm. H. Allen & Company. 1839. Retrieved24 April 2014.
  • The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India, China and Australasia, Volume 29. Allen. 1839. Retrieved24 April 2014.
  • The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 9. Wm. H. Allen & Company. 1882. Retrieved24 April 2014.
  • Asiatic Journal, Volume 9. Parbury, Allen, and Company. 1832. Retrieved24 April 2014.
• Catalogs
  • Catalogue of Books in Oriental Literature...Published or Imported by Wm. H. Allen and Co., Booksellers to the Honourable East-India Company. London. 1837.
• A grammar of the Hindūstānī or Urdū language
  • John Thompson Platts (1874).A grammar of the Hindūstānī or Urdū language. Vol. 6423 of Harvard College Library preservation microfilm program. LONDON: W.H. Allen. p. 399. Retrieved6 July 2011.Oxford University
  • John Thompson Platts (1892).A grammar of the Hindūstānī or Urdū language. LONDON: W.H. Allen. p. 399. Retrieved6 July 2011.the New York Public Library
• Dictionaries
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884).A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English. London: W. H. Allen & Co.OCLC 1243728973.

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