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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
Fasquelle	Eugène Fasquelle began to work for the publishing house of George Charpentier in Paris in 1886. In 1890 the firm, which was closely associated with the work of Émile Zola, became 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. Eugène Fasquelle remained as managing director until 1951. 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
Fauconberg Press	Fauconberg Press is the long-established imprint of the Strict Baptist Historical Society, presently based in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. See www.strictbaptisthistory.org.uk.	2008
Fawcett Books	Fawcett Books was formed in 1950 as part of the Fawcett Publications comic magazine company. The firm was purchased by CBS in 1977, and sold in 1982 to Random House. Random House was acquired by Bertelsmann in 1998, and Fawcett Books remains a Random House / Bertelsmann imprint. See www.randomhouse.com and www.bertelsmann.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
Ferguson Publishing	Ferguson Publishing was founded as a publisher with a specialism in career education. In 2003 the firm was acquired by Facts on File, Inc., which is owned by Infobase Publishing. See www.infobasepublishing.com.	2008
Fernhurst Books	Fernhurst Books was a specialist sailing, boating and nautical publishing firm. In 2006 the firm was acquired by Wiley and became Wiley Nautical. See www.wileynautical.com.	2008
Fiction House	Fiction House was a publisher of popular fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s. According to Steve Holland, the firm went out of business in 1959. See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), pp. 14 & 52.	2008

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