Cirrus@Austlit

American publishing house W. W. Norton & Company, 'is the oldest and largest publishing house owned wholly by its employees, strives to carry out the imperative of its founder to "publish books not for a single season, but for the years" in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, college textbooks, cookbooks, art books and professional books. The roots of the company date back to 1923, when William Warder Norton and his wife, Mary D. Herter Norton, began publishing lectures delivered at the People's Institute, the adult education division of New York City's Cooper Union. The Nortons soon expanded their program beyond the Institute, acquiring manuscripts by celebrated academics from America and abroad.'

In 1974 Boni and Liveright became a subsidiary of W. W. Norton.

Major source: W. W. Norton & Company's website, http://www.wwnorton.com/area4/about.htm
Sighted: 16 May 2006