J. M. Dent
…not live to see the one thousand-volume mark reached in 1956. J. M. Dent died in 1926, on 9 May in Croydon, England. In 1986, Dent & Sons was sold to Weidenfeld & Nicolson. It now forms an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group. The registered companies of J. M. Dent & Sons and Everyman's Library were retained by the Dent…