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| 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 |
| George W. Jacobs Company | The George W. Jacobs Company was established in Philadelphia in 1892. In 1925 the publishing operation of the Jacobs Company was purchased by Durant L. Macrae and Allan M. Smith and renamed as Macrae Smith Company. See the FOB entry for Macrae Smith Company and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 216. | 2013 |
| Georges Charpentier | The publisher Georges Charpentier (1846-1905) was the son of the publisher Gervais Charpentier. After being fired by his father, he began working for the firm of Maurice Dreyfous, whose authors included Émile Zola. In the late 1870s, Charpentier formed his own publishing house, initially to publish 'La vie moderne', but soon becoming Zola's principal publisher. In 1890 the firm changed its name from Georges Charpentier to G. Charpentier & E. Fasquelle. In 1896 Eugène Fasquelle became sole owner of the firm, although he continued to use the Charpentier name for many years. In 1957 the firm of Fasquelle was purchased by Hachette. In 1959 Fasquelle was merged with another recent Hachette acquisition, Grasset, to form Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, which is still based in Paris. See www.hachette.com and www.grasset.fr. | 2008 |
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