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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, 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 |
| 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 |
| Fitzgerald Publishing Co. | Fitzgerald Publishing Co. was founded as a small-scale life sciences publisher. In 2002 the firm was purchased by Wiley. See 'Publishers Weekly', 9 September 2002, and www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
| Four Seas Company | The Four Seas Company was founded as a publishing firm in Boston in 1910 by Edmund R. Brown. In 1930 Four Seas was one of a number of Boston firms which merged to form Bruce Humphries. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 73 & 154; the FOB entries for Bruce Humphries and its successor firm Branden Press; and www.brandenbooks.com. | 2008 |
| 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 Cass | Frank Cass & Co. Ltd was founded by Mr Frank Cass in 1957. It was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 2003. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2013 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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