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Fred J. Hamill Company	The Fred J. Hamill Company flourished in the 1890s, after which its publishing list was purchased by M. Witmark & Sons. See the FOB entry for M. Witmark & Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2008
Futura Publishing Company	Futura Publishing Company was founded in 1970 by Steven Korn and Jacques Strauss. In 2002 the firm was purchased by Blackwell Publishing. See www.blackwellpublishing.com (this website remains current after Blackwell became part of Wiley in February 2007).	2008
G. B. Zieber and Company	The publishing firm of Burgess and Zieber was founded in Philadelphia in 1843 and became G. B. Zieber and Company the following year. The firm went out of business in 1848. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 502.	2009
G. T. Foulis & Co.	G. T. Foulis & Co. was a specialist road transport and motor car publisher. The firm was taken over by Haynes Publishing and in the 1980s the imprint Foulis/Haynes was used. All publications now, however, bear the imprint of Haynes Publishing. See www.haynes.co.uk.	2007
G. W. Carleton	The publishing firm of G. W. Carleton was founded in New York in 1861 as the successor firm to Rudd and Carleton (q.v.), on the retirements of Edward P. Rudd and his father George Rudd. The firm was initially in the sole ownership of George Washington Carleton. From 1871 George Wellington Dillingham became a partner. In 1886 Carleton retired and the firm continued as the G. W. Dillingham Company until it went bankrupt in 1916. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 84-85, and see the FOB entry for the G. W. Dillingham Company.	2009
G. W. Dillingham Company	The G. W. Dillingham Company was a publishing firm founded in New York in 1886 as the successor firm to G. W. Carleton (q.v.), on the retirement of George Washington Carleton. The firm was initially in the sole ownership of George Wellington Dillingham. Dillingham died in 1895, and the firm was managed by his son Frank A. Dillingham and other directors until it went bankrupt in 1916. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 124-125.	2009
Garden City Publishing Company	Garden City Publishing Company was founded as a reprint subsidiary of Doubleday. See the FOB entry for Doubleday & Company, which indicates that the firm was purchased by Bertelsmann in 1986, and is now a division of Random House. See www.randomhouse.com/doubleday and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
George Coolidge	George Coolidge founded his publishing firm in Boston around 1840. The firm went out of existence around 1889. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 103.	2009
George H. Doran Company	The George H. Doran Company merged with Doubleday in 1927 to form Doubleday, Doran "the largest publishing concern in the English-speaking world" (Random House website). Doubleday, Doran was renamed Doubleday & Company in 1946 and is now part of Random House. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See the FOB entry for Doubleday; www.randomhouse.com/doubleday; and www.bertelsmann.com. For the life and career of George H. Doran (1869-1956), see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 119-122.	2008
George Routledge & Sons	George Routledge began publishing in 1836 and founded his publishing company George Routledge & Co. in 1851. After briefly being known as Routledge, Warne & Routledge, it became George Routledge & Sons in 1865. In 1912 George Routledge & Sons merged with Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. to form Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com.	2006

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