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Eyre & Spottiswoode | The firm of Eyre & Spottiswoode was founded in 1770. In 1989 the firm was purchased by Cambridge University Press from the Octopus Group. See www.cambridge.org. | 2006 |
Excerpta Medica | Excerpta Medica was founded in 1946. In 1971 there was a merger of Excerpta Medica, Noord Hollandsche Uitgeversmaatschappij (known in the English-speaking world as North-Holland Publishing Company), and Elsevier NV, to form Associated Scientific Publishers. The principal company name was Elsevier. In 1993 Elsevier NV merged with Reed International plc to form Reed Elsevier. See www.reedelsevier.com. | 2008 |
Everyman Library | J. M. Dent published the Everyman Library from 1906. Dent was purchased by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1988. Weidenfeld & Nicolson is now part of the Orion Group. See the Weidenfeld & Nicolson entry in FOB and www.orionbooks.co.uk. The names of Dent and Everyman are still used by Orion Books. In the USA Everyman's Library is now published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House. See www.randomhouse.com. | 2008 |
Everybody's Books | Everybody's Books was a publisher of popular fiction in the post-war period. According to Steve Holland, the firm went out of business in 1948. See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), p. 19. | 2008 |
Evans Brothers (Nigeria Publishers) Ltd | The publishing firm of Evans Brothers (Nigeria Publishers) Ltd was established as a Nigerian company by Evans Brothers UK in 1966. The firm retains an association with the British Evans Publishing Group, but is now Nigerian-owned, under the auspices of the Otunba Adekunle Ojora. See www.evanspublishers.com.ng. | 2008 |
Evans and Arrowsmith | The publishing firm of Evans and Arrowsmith was, from 1854, a predecessor firm of J. W. Arrowsmith, with J. W. Arrowsmith's father Isaac as one of the partners. See the FOB entry for J. W. Arrowsmith. | 2008 |
Europa Publications Ltd | Europa Publications Ltd was purchased by Taylor & Francis in 1999 and Europa is now a Routledge Reference imprint within the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2006 |
Eurolex | The Eurolex system was purchased by Butterworths Telepublishing from International Thomson Organisation in 1985. Butterworths is now a division of Reed Elsevier, also trading as LexisNexis Butterworths. See www.butterworths.com. | 2007 |
Eugene Ascherberg & Co. | The firm of Eugene Ascherberg & Co. was founded in 1878. In 1906 it was merged with Hopwood & Crew to form Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew. See the FOB entry for Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, which indicates that any surving rights will belong to Warner Chappell Music. See www.warnerchappell.co.uk. | 2007 |
Esquire, Inc. | The firm of Esquire, Inc. was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1984. By that time Esquire, Inc. was a major publisher of textbooks but no longer owned 'Esquire' magazine. See www.simonsays.com. | 2008 |
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| F. J. Schulte and Company | Francis J. Schulte founded his publishing firm in Chicago in 1889. The firm went out of existence around 1900. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 411.
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| F. M. Lupton Publishing Company | Frank Moore Lupton founded his publishing firm in New York around 1882. The firm was renamed the Federal Book Company in 1902 and went out of business about two years later. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 288. | 2014 |
| F. S. Crofts Company | F. S. Crofts Company was a publishing firm founded in 1924. In 1948 the firm merged with Appleton-Century and became Appleton-Century-Crofts. See the FOB entry for Appleton-Century-Crofts, which indicates that part of the firm has passed into the ownership of Pearson and part into the ownership of the Academic Learning Company. | 2008 |
| F. W. Dodge | The firm of F. W. Dodge was founded as a provider of information and analysis for construction specialists. In 1961 the firm was acquired by McGraw-Hill. See www.mcgraw-hill.com and www.fwdodge.com. | 2008 |
| Faber & Faber, Inc. | Faber & Faber, Inc., also known as Faber & Faber (USA), is a completely separate company from its original British parent Faber & Faber Ltd. Faber & Faber, Inc. was purchased by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1998 and is now part of the Macmillan division of Holtzbrinck. See us.macmillan.com. For the independent British company see www.faber.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Facts on File, Inc. | Facts on File is a publisher of reference and educational material. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of Infobase Publishing. See www.infobasepublishing.com.
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| Fanfrolico Press | The Fanfrolico Press was founded in Sydney in 1923 by Jack Lindsay and John T. Kirtley, and moved to London in 1926. Kirtley returned to Sydney in 1927, and the firm was forced by financial difficulties to close in 1930. See the WATCH entry for Jack Lindsay. | 2013 |
| Fantasy Press | Fantasy Press was founded in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1946 as a publisher principally of science fiction. In 1958 the firm was closed down and its list sold to Gnome Press. See the FOB entry for Gnome Press. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 134. | 2008 |
| 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 |
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