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| Farmer, Brace and Company | The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com. | 2009 |
| Farrar & Rinehart | The publishing firm of Farrar & Rinehart was founded by John Farrar, Stanley Rinehart and Frederick Rinehart in 1929. In 1946 John Farrar left to found a new company (see the FOB entry for Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and Farrar & Rinehart was renamed Rinehart. See the FOB entries for Rinehart and Company and Holt, Rinehart and Winston, which indicate that the firm is now part of the Holt McDougal division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com. | 2008 |
| Farrar, Straus & Giroux | The publishing firm of Farrar, Straus & Company was founded by John Farrar and Roger Straus in 1946. The firm was renamed Farrar, Straus & Young and then Farrar, Straus & Cudahy before becoming Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1964. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and became part of Macmillan. See www.holtzbrinck.com and us.macmillan.com. | 2008 |
| Fayard | Arthème Fayard 1er founded his publishing house in Paris in 1857. The business remained largely a family concern until it was bought by Hachette in 1958. Fayard remains a separate company under the Hachette umbrella. See www.hachette.com and www.editions-fayard.fr. | 2008 |
| Fields, Osgood and Company | Fields, Osgood and Company was formed in Boston in 1868 when James T. Fields, James Ripley Osgood and John S. Clark purchased Howard Ticknor's share in Ticknor and Fields. The firm ceased to exist in 1870 when Fields retired and was replaced as a partner by Benjamin Ticknor. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 400, and see the FOB entries for Ticknor and Fields; James R. Osgood and Company; Houghton, Osgood and Company; and Ticknor and Company. All of these firms are regarded as predecessor firms of Houghton Mifflin. See the Company History page of www.hmco.com. | 2009 |
| Financial and Mining News | The Financial and Mining News was founded by Harry Marks in 1884. It was merged with its rival newspaper the Financial Times in 1946. The Financial Times is now part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com. | 2007 |
| Fox, Duffield and Company | The publishing firm of Fox, Duffield and Company was founded by Rector Fox and Pitts Duffield in New York in 1903. Fox retired in 1906, and the firm became known first as Duffield and Company and then as Duffield and Green. See the FOB entry for Duffield and Green and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 131. | 2008 |
| Frank Starr & Co. | Frank Starr & Co. was an imprint of Beadle & Co. (Beadle and Adams) in the late 1870s. See the FOB entry for Beadle and Adams. | 2013 |
| Frank Tousey | The publishing firm of Tousey and Small was founded in New York in 1876 by Frank Tousey and George G. Small. In 1879 Tousey purchased Small's share in the business and began to trade as Frank Tousey. Tousey died in 1902. In 1920 the firm was purchased by Street and Smith. It continued to publish until 1929, when the Frank Tousey name ceased to be used. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 468-470 and see the FOB entry for Street and Smith. | 2009 |
| Fraser & Dunlop | The Fraser & Dunlop literary agency was formed in 1952. In 1988 it merged with the firm of A. D. Peters to form Peters, Fraser & Dunlop (PFD). See www.pfd.co.uk. | 2008 |
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